Nowadays, technology is increasingly focused on making electronics smaller, as many industries – from medicine to aerospace and security – stand to benefit. But reducing the size of devices brings a new challenge: what if they become simply too small to fit a conventional battery, motor, and other mechanical parts?
Category: Electronics, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Sound, Power, drones, Micro drones, EPFL
Finding a human body buried with a sickle around their neck and a padlock around their big toe isn’t exactly common fare.
Category: Archaeology, Science, Refractor: Science & Health
The new Space Age looks to be shifting into top gear as SpaceX signs an agreement with the state of Louisiana for the company to invest US$100 billion to build the world's largest spaceport that could conduct over 10,000 launches per year.
Category: Space Systems, Engineering
For years, America's been in the chokehold of unnecessarily oversized pickup trucks, but recent announcements of new vehicles show that common sense – and more reasonably proportioned utes – may soon prevail.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Pickup, Truck, Volkswagen
Scheduling days without food may have a knock-on effect that eases both chronic pain and its associated cognitive problems, according to a study on mice by researchers from the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University in China.
Category: Chronic Pain, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind, Refractor: Science & Health
Tags: Fasting, Pain, Gut Bacteria, Gut-brain axis, Neuroinflammation
This charming log cabin-style tiny house looks more like it belongs nestled in the woods than being towed behind a truck. It combines a rustic exterior with a spacious interior that sleeps up to four in comfort.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
Are household humanoid robots getting cheaper already? We've only just begun seeing companies start to make promises and accept pre-orders for machines that can do your laundry and tidy up the living room. A San Francisco-based startup is now making one that you can bring home for just US$1,688.
Category: Robotics, Engineering
Tags: Robot, Tele-operation, Humanoid, assistant robot
Supercar unveilings are usually gloriously theatrical but the reveal of the latest one has been called ‘the greatest ever’ by some observers across social media.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Supercars, Hypercar, Monterey Car Week 2026, Gordon Murray
Macro photography captures beautiful, otherworldly images of the tiny world around us. But to shoot a dewdrop or an insect's eye, you have to get so close that the camera itself blocks out most of the light you need. Adaptalux's answer to that problem is the Pod Mini, a palm-sized portable lighting hub that's just gotten its first major overhaul – headlined by Bluetooth control and a tougher aluminum body.
Category: Photography, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Photographic, Macro, Macro Lens, Lighting
This personal air defense system that tracks and shoots mosquitoes with a blue laser is officially available now. The runaway crowdfunding hit has been scaled up by its makers and is available for preorder from the company Photon Matrix's website.
Tags: Mosquito, Camping, Outdoors and Camping, Portable, Laser, Pests, Consumer Electronics
Roughly three-quarters of newly published web pages now carry some machine-written text, according to a 2025 Ahrefs analysis of around 900,000 pages. This figure doesn’t account for offline documents. It also only covers text. Generative AI now produces music, illustrations, software, photographs and increasingly convincing video. The problem is that much of it is becoming difficult to distinguish from human-created work, raising transparency and security concerns.
Category: AI and Humanoids, Technology
Tags: Claude, Anthropic, Artificial Intelligence
As the kind of person who wears black in the height of an Aussie summer, I’m not one to give fashion advice.
Category: Chemistry, Science, Refractor: Science & Health
Tags: metal-organic frameworks, Colors, Smart Fabric, Materials, Fashion, University of Adelaide
As the kind of person who wears black in the height of an Aussie summer, I’m not one to give fashion advice.
Category: Chemistry, Science, Refractor: Science & Health
Tags: metal-organic frameworks, Colors, Smart Fabric, Materials, Fashion, University of Adelaide
It still surprises me just how many good, affordable cars fail to make their way to certain markets. Whether it be due to regulatory reasons, differences in consumer tastes, production constraints, or simply because automakers don't think the numbers add up, there's a whole world of interesting metal that never gets the opportunity to cross certain borders.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Hyundai, Electric Vehicles, Hot hatch, America
Valve's Steam Machine is the gaming system that PC gamers have been dreaming of for years. Sadly, it's hard to get your hands on one, and it costs a pretty penny. This new mini PC with some clever tricks up its sleeve might be just the thing to shop for instead.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Gaming, PC, Windows, Linux, Console, xxKickbooster, Kickstarter
As the second World Humanoid Robot Games got under way on August 21 at Beijing’s National Speed Skating Oval, most of the interest has been on the machine sprinters and boxers. But away from the sporting arena, the five-day games reveal something telling about why China's winning this technology race.
Category: AI and Humanoids, Technology
Tags: Competition, Racing, Honor
Obesity is a public health crisis, with excess fat linked with a wide variety of chronic conditions. Yet our tendency to use body mass as a convenient proxy for unhealthy weight gain may obfuscate the true risks – and even benefits – of being a little bigger.
Category: Obesity, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind, Refractor: Science & Health
Tags: Body mass index (BMI), Waist, Heart Disease, Aging, Diet, Weight, Exercise
In a move that could help drastically slow the advancement of Alzheimer's disease (AD), the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared C2N Diagnostics' PrecivityAD2 blood test for patients as young as 40 who have shown some potential cognitive symptoms of the condition.
Category: Alzheimer's & Dementia, Brain Health, Body and Mind, Refractor: Science & Health
Tags: Washington University in St. Louis, Dementia, Alzheimer's disease, Diagnostic tools, Blood, Tau protein, Amyloid-beta protein, clinical trials
The future of Scandinavian military aviation was rolled out by Saab at the Swedish Armed Forces Jubilee Air Show at Malmen Air Base in Linköping, Sweden, with the unveiling of a full-scale mock-up of the company's A3-001 supersonic Loyal Wingman autonomous combat aircraft concept.
Category: Military, Engineering
Tags: drones, Supersonic, Fighter, Saab
A new study has found that eating more legumes was associated with better cardiometabolic health in young men, while cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli and cauliflower were the prime choice of vegetable for young women.
Category: Diet & Nutrition, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind, Refractor: Science & Health
Tags: Heart Disease, Cardiovascular, Diet, Vegetables, Sex and gender, Diabetes
