You know how rejuvenating a bath feels after a long day of work? Almost like you're renewed. Turns out that's not exclusive to humans. Scientists at Cornell University have developed an electrochemical bath that restores spent lithium batteries to nearly 100% capacity.
Category: Energy, Engineering
Tags: Batteries, Cornell University, Recycling
Aurora Flight Sciences just announced that the triangular wings of the X-65 have arrived at its Virginia assembly facility, where they are now being integrated onto the fuselage. With that milestone cleared, DARPA – the Pentagon's advanced research arm – and Aurora are targeting a first flight before the end of 2026.
A once-a-day, low-impact oral GLP-1 pill known as CX11 has passed its efficacy test on US patients to advance to the first North American Phase 3 trial. It's already cleared its first Phase 3 study in China.
Category: Obesity, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: GLP-1 receptor agonists, Weight Loss, clinical trials, Fat cells, peptide, Pharmaceuticals, BioLogic, Experimental, Obesity
New Zealand outfit Fortress Trailers specializes in developing some of the most secure, rugged utility trailers out there – essentially uncrackable wheeled safes that tow along from job site to job site, keeping expensive essentials like tools and building materials secure in any environment. Now that it's turned attention to camping trailers, outdoor travelers can rest assured that they're pulling along an ultra-rugged survival vault optimized for supplying basic living comforts in extreme environments. That's the new Fortress Explorer camper in a nutshell.
Category: Camping Trailers, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: Trailer, trailers, Off-road, Off-grid, RV, Camping, Outdoors and Camping
The tiniest, flexiest mini-pickup the American market has seen in decades is on its way. Slate Auto's delightfully compact, customizable e-truck was originally positioned to start under $20K. Sadly, that won't be the case anymore, but it will still be the cheapest brand-new truck in the US when it rolls out later this year. And buyers will be able to build it into the tiny pickup of their dreams, whether that means transforming it into an old-school SUV or swapping out stock body panels for a more personalized look.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Light could put the brakes on material diffusing through a solution, and the reason why touches on some of the stranger corners of quantum mechanics.
Tags: Quantum Mechanics, Electrons, Water, Carbon, Liquid
Meta's been adding tech to glasses for the last few years now, in partnership with Ray-Ban and Oakley. It's now launched a new range of smart glasses with AI smarts on board, sans those brand names.
Category: Wearables, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Meta, Artificial Intelligence, Smart Glasses, Glasses
Long-standing competitive ways of creating automotive technology are being up-ended as some of the West’s biggest carmakers have begin sharing previously secret digital know-how behind the scenes – in order to create a single shared operating system to power future vehicles.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, stellantis, Open-source, Software, Operating system, Volkswagen, Peugeot
Unlike a lot of tiny houses we see, the Justine doesn't attempt to cram too much into its towable frame. Instead, it spreads its interior layout across a single floor, creating a spacious home that's suitable for full-time living.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
A landmark study due to start in the coming months aims to test a method for rejuvenating our immune system in older age. The Phase 1 trial will target senescent T cells, which accumulate as we age or fight chronic disease and become less good at protecting us from illness.
Category: Aging Well, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: University College London, The Immune System, T-cells, Age-Related, anti-aging, Lifespan, Cells, molecular biology, clinical trials
The market for smart glasses is becoming increasingly crowded, but the benefit for consumers is that makers are also producing technology that caters to specific audiences. And the BleeqUp Ranger does exactly that, in unashamedly action-capturing style.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Smart Glasses, Sports, Artificial Intelligence, Cycling, Running, Fitness, wearable electronics, Reviews
In what looks like a march to the past, at this year's Eurosatory exhibition in Paris Ukrainian firm Parabella has shown off its eponymous portable pillbox military shelter designed to protect troops on the battlefield.
Category: Military, Engineering
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) scientists have developed a form of neurological pacemaker that adapts in real time to a patient’s walking and could address one of the most disabling and hard-to-treat symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.
Category: Brain Health, Body and Mind
Tags: Parkinson's Disease, Deep Brain Stimulation, Walk, Brain, Neurodegenerative conditions
It’s not often that we get guests. So when the interstellar intruder 3I/ATLAS came zooming through our Solar System last year, it provided astronomers with a perfect opportunity to study a rock from another part of the galaxy.
Tags: 3I/ATLAS, Comets, NASA, JWST, interstellar space, Solar System
Traveling with music was always a cumbersome affair. Cassettes fluttered, CDs skipped, and choosing a dozen albums for a trip meant leaving dozens more behind. Then there's the one you have to exclude because Peter Gabriel signed it.
Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Music Servers, Digital music, Music Streaming, Streaming
Layla Tiseo, Université de Montréal/ The Conversation
Category: Archaeology, Science
Tags: Deaths, grave, Paleontology, Bones
Last month, Volkswagen announced it's bringing the ID. Buzz back to the US market after a yearlong hiatus and dressing it up with a big, new addition: a camping version. What it didn't announce was any pricing or availability information. While it still hasn't released those critical details, it has launched and priced a "Good Night Package" in Germany with identical in-van camping equipment.
Category: Campervans, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: Campervan, RV, Camping, Volkswagen, electric-camper, Outdoors and Camping, mini-campervan
Definium Therapeutics has announced strong results in a phase 3 trial of its single-dosed lysergide (LSD) drug DT120 in treating adults with major depressive disorder (MDD), meeting its primary goal and all key secondary efficacy endpoints in the first trial of its kind.
Category: Mental Health, Brain Health, Body and Mind
Tags: Psychedelic Medicine, mental health, Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, clinical trials, FDA
Everybody wants an SUV these days, and boy, are they expensive. Even for a mere facelift, you’d be expected to shell out around $50,000. Well, BYD just flipped the switch to all that.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: BYD, SUV, Electric Vehicles, Battery Technology, China
