For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – were an ancient feature that some lineages inherited and others later lost. But new evidence suggests this is completely wrong.
Tags: Museum, Evolution, Bones, Australia, Animal science, Animals, Environment
While this may look like a minimalist pair of titanium chopsticks, it's so much more. It's actually a modular everyday-carry tool that can shapeshift into four other different forms. And there are only a few days left to get it at its discounted rate.
Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors
Tags: Kickstarter, Utensils, EDC, Titanium, Sustainable, sustainable design
As combat drones continue to move from the laboratory to the battlefield, the US Navy is exploring how to use a digitally simulated F-35 Lightning II aircraft to develop new tactics to go with the new technology.
Category: Military, Technology
Tags: US Navy, Flight Simulators, drones, F35-Fighter, Battlefield, Warcraft
Nitrous oxide, informally known as laughing gas, has shown rapid antidepressant effects in people with depression in a series of small clinical trials, with symptoms easing within hours of inhaling it. The treatment involves breathing in a mix of nitrous oxide and oxygen for up to an hour.
Category: Mental Health, Brain Health, Body and Mind
Tags: Depression, mental health, Gas, University of Birmingham, Brain, Drug development, Neuroscience
For millions of people, losing their sense of smell quietly reshapes daily life. Meals lose nuance, familiar places feel strangely distant, and critical warning signals like smoke, gas or spoiled food become harder to register. Smell’s deep links to memory and emotion make its absence especially disorienting, and once damaged, the system is notoriously difficult to restore. That challenge has led some researchers to stop asking how to fix smell, and start asking whether its information might reach the brain another way.
Category: Medical Innovations, Body and Mind
Electric vehicles are emerging left, right, and center, but I bet nobody put their money on a vacuum cleaner manufacturer coming up with one. And it's not just a plain ol' EV put together with random Chinese components, but a proper hypercar!
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Electric Vehicles, Vacuum, China, Bugatti, Xiaomi, Dyson
Epson added an ultra-short-throw laser projector to its new Lifestudio range of streaming models last year, which promised "impressive brightness and a vivid, true-to-life picture day or night." Now the veteran company is adding a more powerful flavor.
Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology
Designed for full-time living in a small footprint, the Julia tiny house packs an impressive number of features into its compact frame. It includes a light-filled and airy interior with a netted hangout area, as well as a home office, and can even optionally run off-the-grid.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Micro-House, Tiny Footprint, House, Home
A team of researchers in China has developed a remarkable device to allow people with limited mobility to use computers and experience VR content by moving their eyeballs – and to power the gadget simply by blinking.
Category: Medical Innovations, Body and Mind
Tags: VR, Paralysis, Eye-tracking, Accessibility
Hyundai has been teasing the electric model Staria people mover since 2021 and has finally introduced the full production spec model. Debuting in Brussels, the 800-volt minivan will go on sale in Korea and Europe before mid-2026.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Hyundai, Electric Vehicles, Van, Green+Energy, korea, Battery Technology
Chronic liver disease gets worse when the liver's immune system stays overactive, resulting in ongoing inflammation and scarring. Signals from the gut make the situation worse by encouraging immune cells to release harmful molecules. Macrophages and monocytes are central players, intensifying injury and shifting the body's defenses toward a more aggressive state. Among them, liver macrophages are essential and are now being explored as therapeutic targets.
Category: Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
It's amazing how much mileage architects manage to get from the humble shipping container, with notable designs ranging from large apartment buildings and offices, to tiny houses. This example of the latter skillfully squeezes a comfortable home for two into a single shipping container.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: shipping containers, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
When COVID-19 lockdowns emptied city streets, urban environments changed almost overnight. New research suggests that Los Angeles city birds responded just as quickly, with measurable shifts in beak shape during this period. The changes coincided with altered food availability and reduced human activity, offering a rare opportunity to examine how human behavior can rapidly shape biological traits in urban wildlife.
Tags: Birds, Evolution, Coronavirus (COVID-19), UCLA, Complutense University of Madrid, University of Granada, lockdown
Although Presta valves are pretty much standard on higher-end bikes' wheels, the things definitely do have their drawbacks. Dutch company BBB Cycling has decided to do something about that, with a li'l Presta-improving device known as the CoreCap.
Because of industrial climate chaos, catastrophic economic inequality, war and displacement, there is, as the United Nations puts it succinctly, a global food crisis in 68 countries, with 318 million people facing acute hunger. Simultaneous famines in two countries (Palestine and Sudan) – which the UN calls “a devastating first this century” – threaten millions of lives.
Category: Science
Tags: UC San Diego, Plants, Crops, Agriculture, Antibacterial
The year is 2011, Tesla CEO Elon Musk was asked in a Bloomberg interview whether Chinese automaker BYD Auto posed a real competitive threat to Tesla. Musk cheekily laughed and said, "Have you seen their car? I don’t think they have a great product… I don’t think the technology is very strong."
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: BYD, Tesla Motors, Model Y, Tesla Model 3, Electric Vehicles, PHEV
Boston Dynamics has unveiled the new industry-ready Atlas, a humanoid designed as a practical industrial tool for warehouses and factories. Atlas can operate 24/7 in extreme temperatures, and uses AI to adapt to its environment. Production has already started.
Category: AI and Humanoids, Technology
Tags: Boston Dynamics, Humanoid, Production, Hyundai
The smaller you try to make a micro-camper or tiny trailer, the less space you have to install conventional camping essentials. The bathroom tends to be the first thing to go, but eventually the kitchen might have to follow. Then you're stuck with a backpacking stove, or maybe a box of Pop-Tarts. German startup Stuff Bubble has a different idea on how even the smallest camping vehicles can bring along a complete kitchen. Its collapsible kitchen weighs just 33 lb (15 kg) fully equipped, packs flat on the vehicle floor, and inflates into form at camp, offering a sink, worktop and even a refrigerator.
Tags: Camping, Cooking, Kitchen, Inflatable, Campervan, mini-campervan, RV, Outdoors and Camping
Cannabis produces a complex suite of bioactive compounds, including tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD), but how these molecules evolved has long been a mystery. Now, new research has shed light on their origin story – and opened the door to innovative ways of harnessing these compounds for human medicine.
Category: Society & Community, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: Wageningen University, Cannabis, Cannabinoids, CBD, Drugs, Biotechnology, Drug development
You know you have a proper enduro motorcycle on your hands when it has Graham Jarvis’ credentials behind it. That’s the Jarv-E project, born from a collaboration between Jarvis and Austrian motorcycle engineer David Freidinger.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Electric Vehicles, Electric Motorcycles, Enduro, Endurance Racing, Dirt Bikes, Off-road
