Aston Martin's latest offering presents a radical departure from its usual design direction. If you like your cars burly and mean, you'll dig the Valen. It's also plenty fast.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Aston Martin, Sports Cars
The United States has about 94,000 tonnes of nuclear waste in storage, though that's a bit like calling all that gold in Fort Knox "waste." A new technique is being developed to recover its trapped value, unlocking billions of dollars in reusable fuel and high-value isotopes.
Category: Energy, Engineering
Tags: Nuclear, Nuclear Fission, Waste
This neat little cuboid tiny house is simplicity itself. I say tiny house, but it's really best thought of as an extra bedroom or office on wheels. It has a clever interior that maximizes floorspace with a bed that's hidden under the floor when not in use.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Micro-House, House, Home, Tiny Footprint
Scientists have been searching for ethical, high-quality alternatives to animal leather, which notoriously comes with environmental costs and ethical compromises. While synthetic alternatives solve the ethical dilemma, many of them are plastic-based and very difficult to recycle. Now, researchers are trying to find an option that checks all the boxes, and the best material for it seems to be … mushrooms.
Category: Materials, Engineering
Tags: VTT Technical Research Centre, American Chemical Society, Mushrooms
Liter-class motorcycles haven’t exactly been accessible per se. Not just state-of-the-art superbikes that look like Greek goddesses, but even something as rugged and exposed as the Honda Africa Twin comes for upwards of $15,000. CFMoto clearly doesn’t like to play by the conventional rules, and its latest offering takes a direct shot at big-bore ADVs at a fraction of the price.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: CFMoto, Adventure Bikes, Off-road, KTM
There is a particular kind of automotive ridiculousness that I find charming. The 2026 Audi SQ5 is a family crossover with five seats, a useful cargo area, and all-wheel drive. It’s also capable of launching itself to 60 mph in 4.6 seconds. Because apparently groceries need to be accelerated urgently.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: SUV, Audi, Audi Quattro, Crossover, Reviews
As Ferrari revealed its first electric car to the public over the last few months, it first drew immense praise for the inventive interiors with a focus on physical controls.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Ferrari, Auction, Monterey Car Week 2026, Electric Vehicles
A new 19.9-meter (65-ft) tower rises like a brutalist-inspired, twisted monolith above its rural surroundings, providing a space for watching migratory birds that populate Wuhan's Chenhu Wetland, China.
Category: Architecture, Engineering
Tags: China, Engineering, Birds, nature, Art, Experience, Structure
The line between a pocket camera and a drone keeps getting blurrier, and HoverAir has just about erased it. The company, which helped pioneer the self-flying camera, has now shared full specifications for the Versa, the palm-sized gimbal camera it teased earlier this month. We covered the initial reveal when the Versa first broke cover, and this follow-up digs into the numbers behind the concept.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Flying-cam, Cameras, drones, Camera drone, Gimbals, Indiegogo, xxAffiliate
This new piece of EDC gear we've spotted looks like a handy little screwdriver with bit storage. However, it serves two additional functions beyond fastening that make it practical for more than just DIY projects and repairs.
Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors
Tags: EDC, Titanium, Tools, xxKickbooster, Kickstarter
Watching skilled excavator operators work is almost hypnotic. They make it look so easy that the machine seems to move like an extension of the operator's own arm. That intuition usually takes years to build, but a new controller from MIT engineers compresses that learning curve to a single session.
Category: Robotics, Engineering
Tags: Robotics, MIT, Interface, Robotic construction, Construction
The mission to rescue NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory space telescope may be in need of some rescuing itself. Due to multiple malfunctions in the LINK spacecraft's attitude control system, space engineers have decided to abandon the boost attempt.
Category: Space Systems, Engineering
Tags: Swift Satellite, NASA, Satellite
As sighted creatures, humans have always used light for communication through body language, writing, smoke signals, and more. Harnessing invisible frequencies of light such as radio massively expanded our communication range, while hyper-focusing light into lasers tremendously increased communication fidelity. And sending lasers through fiber optic cables meant communication that was free from the tyranny of straight line-transmission.
Category: Engineering
Tags: Caltech, Light, Optical Computing
I want the camper van ... but without tying myself to one van. That's essentially what spinoff brand Hunker sells with its new slide-in camper system. An all-in-one camper van floor plan on roller skates, the Hunker Pod turns an empty Ram Promaster into a warm, inviting camper van with kitchen, dining area, queen bed and toilet – no time-sucking DIY conversion work, no six-figure custom build, and no bottomless pit of never-ending obstacles and expenses. The pod and van combined cost well less than most US-market fully built camper vans, and the Hunker Pod will even outlast the van itself, installing in a new van just as easily as the first time.
Category: Campervans, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: camper-in-a-box, Campervan, RV, Modular, RAM, Camping, Outdoors and Camping, Van
Tiny houses come in all shapes and sizes nowadays. Some models push toward the upper limits of what can reasonably be considered a portable home, while others embrace extreme downsizing. Here are 10 of our favorites from both ends of the spectrum.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
It's that time of the year again – when nature photo competition winners are announced and we get to look at some amazing images that remind us that the world is made up of more than AI slop. For now, anyway.
Category: Photography, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Animal science, Photographers, Awards, Animals, Marine Biology, Ecology
Plans have been revealed for an ambitious wooden high-rise in Bellevue, Washington, that will set a new height record. The timber tower will rise to a height of 180 ft (54.8 m), making it the tallest mass timber office building in the United States once completed.
Category: Architecture, Engineering
Tags: Building and Construction, Timber, cross-laminated timber, Office, Skyscrapers
Chinese mini-transport engineering company Blizwheel has spent years evolving lightweight electric scooters that fold like origami to become small enough to vanish inside a standard backpack. Its latest version is perhaps the best yet.
Category: Urban Transport, Transport
Tags: xxKickbooster, Kickstarter, Electric Vehicles, Scooter
Personally, I’ve always loved the Yamaha XSR lineup. I think the 700 and 900 are brilliant-looking motorcycles that most people can hop on, ride practically anywhere, and have a ball while doing so. They offer something for modern motorcycle enthusiasts alongside a dose of authentic retro style.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Yamaha, America, Affordable, Kawasaki, Honda Motorcycles, Retro
Bacteria engineered to sense and reduce glucose levels could be the future of type 2 diabetes treatments, following pre-clinical trials on animal models.
Category: Diabetes, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind, Refractor: Science & Health
Tags: Type 2 diabetes, GLP-1 receptor agonists, Weight Loss, Probiotic, Diet
