The sustainability of weight-loss drugs is under scrutiny as new research shows that people who stop taking glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) agonists regain the pounds at a steady rate, returning to their original size after around 1.7 years. The findings raise questions about whether this "magic cure" for obesity is actually unsustainable without a life-long commitment to the medication.

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Category: Obesity, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind

Tags: University of Oxford, Harvard, Obesity, GLP-1 receptor agonists, Weight Loss, Age-Related, Body fat, metabolism, Cardiovascular, Cholesterol

In northwestern Greenland, researchers working on the GreenDrill project have cored through a 500-meter-thick ice dome. They found something startling: the dome completely disappeared 7,000 years ago. And it might do it again.

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Category: Environment, Science

Tags: Greenland, Ice, glacier, Climate Crisis, Warming, University at Buffalo, Columbia University

You think you’re fine. Your family and friends think you’re fine. But, just maybe, you’re not. Maybe you already have Alzheimer’s disease, but you just don’t know it yet, because it can begin destroying your brain decades before anyone even suspects.

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Category: Alzheimer's & Dementia, Brain Health, Body and Mind

Tags: Northwestern University, Alzheimer's disease, Dementia, Treatment, Brain

Named the Seawillow, this recently completed tiny house combines a bright and colorful seaside-inspired interior decor with a compact but livable layout. It features a downstairs master bedroom, a spacious kitchen, and even a secondary loft bedroom that serves as a hobby space.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home

Back in 2022, Samsung released a cool-looking portable projector aimed directly at Gen Z and millennials. A game-friendly edition followed, and now the AI-packin' Plus model has emerged – which is not just brighter, but sports a plonk and play design.

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Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: ces-2026, Samsung, Projectors, Portable, LED, Artificial Intelligence

What was announced as a 2050 pipe dream by Kawasaki, the company's hydrogen-powered, four-hooved, all-terrain robot horse vehicle Corleo, is actually going into production and is now expected to be commercially available decades earlier – with the first model to debut in just four years.

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Kawasaki, Robots, Vehicles, Mobility, Horse-riding, Mountaineering

Bringing a touch of Russian Roulette to gaming, these bullet-shaped metal dice shoot out of a cylinder modeled on a classic revolver to give the classic roll more drama than we could have ever imagined.

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Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Kickstarter, Gaming, Bullet, Design Engineering

VW’s ID.UNYX sub-brand has adopted an “in China, for China” strategy, and the new ID.Unyx 08 carries that baton forward as an electric SUV built exclusively for the Chinese market – for now. That means readers in the West can’t have it, and here’s why that's a bit of a bummer.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Volkswagen, Electric Vehicles, China

One of our favorite tents of 2025, the Gazelle T4 Overland EXP impressed with its combination of fast, convenient setup and burly, all-weather construction. The all-new Backcountry series takes it a step further with an even heavier, 4-season design built to camp comfortably from sweltering desert basins to high-alpine snow drifts and all altitudes in between.

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Category: Tents, Gear, Outdoors

Tags: Tent, Foldable, Camping, Winter

Traditional fountains are all very well and good, but … they have a way of always staying in the same place, in the same configuration. Arivia is out to change that, with fleets of synchronized illuminated aquatic drones that shoot out water while playing music.

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Category: Drones, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Autonomous, Water, Light, Entertainment

And just like that, we’re staring at an exciting new year, possibly the year when we see a genuine turning point for motorcycles. And I’m not just talking about incremental updates or another special-edition paint job – the 2026 crop of bikes hints at deeper shifts in how motorcycles are designed, powered, and positioned.

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Royal Enfield, Ducati, Honda Motorcycles, KTM, BMW Motorrad, EICMA 2025

LG has debuted a home robot that's designed to cook, clean, and manage chores using advanced Physical AI. Part of LG's "Zero Labor Home" vision, the wheeled humanoid features dexterous hands and visual learning to automate daily household tasks.

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Category: Robotics, Technology

Tags: ces-2026, LG, Humanoid, Robots, Home

Lego's construction sets have been a fantastic choice for analog play for several decades now. These interlocking building blocks are set to get way more interesting with the inventive toy company's new Smart Play system that features electronics-packed bricks and minifigures for more immersive playtime.

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Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Toys, Lego, Children, Play, star wars

If you want to spoil a sailor's day, then a ship collision is the way to do it. That's why Texas A&M University has come up with its Ship collision avoidance of Machine learning And Radar Technology for Stationary Entities and Avoidance (SMART-SEA).

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Category: Marine, Transport

Tags: Shipwrecks, Shipping, Artificial Intelligence

Americans are being urged to be extra vigilant this winter, as a suite of influenza A mutations has created a dominant virus strain that's spreading more rapidly and evading our natural and therapeutic abilities to fight infection. With more than 120,000 hospitalizations as of January 5, scientists expect this wave to worsen as the season peaks.

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Category: Infectious Diseases, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind

Tags: Influenza, mRNA vaccines, Vaccines, Infections, Virus, Evolution, Genetics

The kickoff of CES didn't used to mean a whole lot for RVing, but the past few shows have hosted some major RV debuts as cutting-edge technological advancements continue to find their way to RV life. Last year, AC Future showed its ultra-sleek and massively expandable eTH motorhome, and this year it's sliding its tech behind a tow vehicle with the equally impressive Transformer Home Trailer, a towable smart home developed in collaboration with one of the world's most famous design houses.

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Category: Camping Trailers, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

Tags: Caravan, Pininfarina, trailers, Trailer, electric-camper, smart RV, ces-2026, RV, Camping, Outdoors and Camping

No one can deny the gold rush currently underway in the EV space. Everyone seems to want a piece of the action – oddly enough, even a Russian firearms manufacturer is getting involved. Yes, Russia’s state-owned Kalashnikov Concern, best known as the maker of the AK-47, has now rolled out an electric enduro motorcycle of its own.

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Kalashnikov, Electric Motorcycles, Sidecar, Russia, AK-47, Firearms

If you live in a cold climate and wear a face covering along with eyewear, you'll be aware of a big problem: such coverings cause your eyewear to thoroughly fog up. Well, the Stratus Balaclava solves that problem in brilliant fashion, as I recently found out for myself.

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Category: Gear, Outdoors

Tags: Winter, Eyewear, Reviews

Though big-screen televisions still dominate many living rooms around the globe, smart laser projectors have been making steady inroads of late – particularly those you can push right up to the wall. AWOL Vision has now launched another contender, one that aims to "deliver 4K clarity at screen sizes up to 200 inches."

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Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Projectors, Laser TV, Google TV, 4K UHD, ces-2026

This striking metal-finish tiny house provides a spacious interior while remaining road-legal. Named the Wilhite, it also has an unusual "upside-down" layout that places the bedroom downstairs and the living room upstairs, allowing it to squeeze in not just one but two lofts.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home