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Hubless motorcycle promises 373 mile-range with solid-state battery

We've been covering Estonia-based electric motorcycle outfit Verge for a good while now, because it's been on the cusp of something amazing: a hubless motor combined with the latest battery tech in a bike that delivers performance and range in spades. Today, the company revealed its upped the ante on the latter, making the Verge TS Pro arguably the longest range electric two-wheeler you can buy.

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

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'Microneedling' of plants could boost growth and reduce fertilizer waste

If you’re a gardener – and definitely if you’re a farmer – you want to spend less on fertilizer but while growing more food. Well, it’s time to send your thank-you basket of fruits and vegetables to researchers at the National University of Singapore, because they’ve created a magic wand for doing just that. Well, actually, a magic needle.

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Category: Science

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A vibrator in your motorcycle seat, all in the name of road safety

Motorcycle safety tech has come a long way. From rider aids like traction control, cornering ABS, radar-based cruise control, and blind-spot detection to wearable tech on helmets and gloves. But just when I thought I’d seen it all, along comes ViberAlert, a product that poses a simple, yet deeply unsettling question: What if your motorcycle seat could vibrate to keep you safe?

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Chinese museum steps aside so that nature can speak

Inspired by a vision to support nature, architectural firm Studio Link-Arc has completed the Yunlu Wetland Museum in Yunlu Wetland Park in Shunde, within southern China’s Pearl River Delta. Positioned beside a protected habitat of wading birds, the museum combines a bird-watching tower with exhibition spaces, allowing visitors to observe the landscape while remaining secondary to the surrounding wildlife.

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Category: Architecture, Technology

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ADHD stimulants don’t work the way we thought they did

For decades, ADHD stimulant medications have been thought to sharpen attention, but new research has uncovered something very different is at play. These drugs don't actually provide laser-sharp focus but may instead boost wakefulness and engagement, helping the brain stay with tasks rather than hold attention.

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Category: ADHD & Autism, Brain Health, Body and Mind

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The surprise architects of Japan’s intricate underwater ‘crop circles’

In 1995, divers first noticed a group of bizarre sandy "crop circles" on the seabed around Amami Oshima Island, southwest Japan. But it took decades for scientists to identify the marine artists behind them – and why they were building such geometrically precise structures every year.

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Category: Environment, Science

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These three discoveries change how we understand coffee and the heart

Coffee is one of the most widely consumed psychoactive substances on the planet, yet despite more than two billion cups being drunk each day, its impact on heart health remains surprisingly complex – and often misunderstood.

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Category: Diet & Nutrition, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind

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11 coolest, most covetable mid to massive camper vans and RVs of 2025

We took a look at the most intriguing tiny RVs we covered throughout 2025, and now it's time for the big boys. Or at least bigger boys. From self-driving smart trailers with auto-dumping waste tanks to on- and off-road explorers that bulge out in every direction possible to maximize living space, some truly jaw-dropping and inspiring camper vans, travel trailers, large motorhomes and expedition trucks emerged in 2025.

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Category: RVs and Motorhomes, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

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Minimal upgrades transform compact post-war home

Shaped by a vision to maintain the ecological and architectural integrity of a post-war neighborhood, architectural firm OFIS has completed the House under the Poplars in the Murgle district of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Located at the edge of a row of atrium houses, the project reconstructs and extends a peripheral dwelling, updating it to contemporary and sustainable home, while preserving the understated principles that define the district.

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A powerful new force is upending how Americans buy food

The rise in popularity of GLP-1 receptor agonist drugs like Ozempic is causing a wider societal shift that is now rocking the food industry. And some are feeling the pain more than others, as people make fundamental changes to their lives and health.

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