Hero MotoCorp isn’t a new name in the global motorcycle scene by any stretch. Back in its home country, the Indian manufacturer is the biggest motorcycle seller by volume, selling more than 1.39 million units in the first quarter of FY2025 alone. It’s fair to say it has a fair amount of experience churning out well-built, reliable motorcycles.

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Hero Motocorp, Kids, ebikes, Electric Vehicles, Electric Motorcycles

I was asked if I'd like to review the LiberNovo Omni, an $1,100 ergonomic desk chair. I mean, have you ever sat in a $1,100 desk chair? I hadn't. I wanted to.

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Category: Around The Home, Lifestyle

Tags: Chair, Desk, Office, Ergonomic

Imagined receiving – or being born with – a life sentence with no possibility of parole. The prison will be your own body. And in this prison, you may be electrically shocked into convulsions, or afflicted with bleeding in your brain, or gagged so you can’t speak, or shackled so you can’t move your arms or your legs, or even be denied light itself.

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Category: Medical Devices, Medical Innovations, Body and Mind

Tags: Columbia University, Brain-computer interface, Artificial Intelligence

One of the more enjoyable things about covering tiny houses is seeing each country's take on the art of downsizing. The Mizuho showcases a Japanese approach to the concept, squeezing in a home working area and a downstairs bedroom into a compact footprint.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

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

Using chemical clues from Neanderthal bones, researchers have placed the species at the top of the food chain, alongside apex predators like lions – feasting on big animals such as mammoths or bison. However, experts have been missing out on one of their key, fat-rich, and easily collectible food sources: Maggots.

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Category: History, Science

Tags: Neanderthal, Diet, Protein, Purdue University, Red meat

From a CRISPR baby to a young AI disruptor, 2025 has seen some serious leaps in science and technology. It's also seen some people stand up to the growing pressures facing the science community. Now, the world's leading science journal, Nature, has named 10 prominent figures behind the year's standout moments, which stretch from the darkness of the deep sea to the far corners of the universe.

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Category: Science

Tags: Disease, Dengue, molecular biology, Artificial Intelligence, DeepSeek, Mosquito, pandemic, CRISPR, Observatory, Space telescope, CDC, nature, Marine Biology

Lithium. While it’s not quite “the Spice” of Dune, the silvery, reactive metal is an extraordinarily valuable means for storing electricity, meaning it’s a key tool for transitioning from climate-killing carbon-fuel consumption to a world-transforming economy and green-energy future.

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Category: Energy, Technology

Tags: Rice University, Lithium-ion, Recycling

Being an outdoors enthusiast comes with one thing that most people don’t enjoy all that much: packing bulky, heavy gear that never quite fits in the car, especially when it comes to cooking equipment. Currently available on Kickstarter, the Vennoe T01 pizza oven could become a smart addition to a camping setup, helping to solve at least part of that problem.

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Category: Outdoor Cooking, Gear, Outdoors

Tags: Kickstarter, Cooking, Pizza, Portable, Oven

Despite its modest length of just 24 ft (7.3 m), the Pacific Wren packs an impressive amount of flexibility into its compact frame. The tiny house contains two bedrooms, a well-equipped kitchen, and even a small home office area.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

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

Sitting around a fire is surely one of the outdoors’ greatest simple pleasures. Living on the coast, I enjoy driftwood bonfires that are not just decorative, they keep you warm enough to sit out on a stony British beach after sundown year-round.

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Category: Gear, Outdoors

Tags: Fire, Camping, Portable, Collapsible

Mini motos have always thrived on a simple idea: small, useful motorcycles that punch well above their weight. What started as post-war utility machines quickly transformed into farm runabouts and then eventually into cult favorites like Honda’s Trail series in more recent times.

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Moped, ebikes, Off-road, Honda Motorcycles

The ability to make fire on demand has long been seen as a turning point in our evolutionary story. It unlocked benefits like cooking food, staying warm, and protection from predators. For thousands of years, our ancestors progressed from scavenging flames around wildfires to tending them and, eventually, sparking them deliberately.

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Category: History, Science

Tags: Fire, Archeology, Neanderthal, British Museum, History, Evolution

It's that time of year again – and my personal favorite corner of science to look back on – when we recap the many fascinating discoveries in the plant and animal kingdom that made headlines in 2025.

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Category: Biology, Science

Tags: Wildlife, Best of 2025, Animal science, Behavior, Genetics, Evolution, Conservation, Spiders, Ants, Snakes, orca, Birds, Plants

The Nissan Leaf is, in its own way, a big part of modern automotive history. It’s the first affordable EV. And this all-new 2026 model keeps that groundbreaking premise, but updates it to relevance in today’s more saturated market.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Nissan, Nissan LEAF, Electric Vehicles, Reviews

I don’t know about you, but I’ve always preferred making my own antibodies.

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Category: Medical Innovations, Body and Mind

Tags: MIT, antibodies, Nanoparticles

In 2025, we saw some truly wondrous, often oddball tiny camping creations that included everything from extra-petite inflatable tow-pods, to self-powered rooftop A-frame micro-cabins, to platform-agnostic camper capsules built to roam from automobile to trailer. We definitely saw more than a year's fair share of category-defying camping contraptions.

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Category: RVs and Motorhomes, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

Tags: Outdoors and Camping, RV, Caravan, Trailer, trailers, Outdoors and Camping, Camping

Honda’s new patent asks one weird but very interesting question: what if motorcycles came equipped with a steering-assist system, which would help with crash avoidance – a feature most modern-day cars come with?

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Honda, Honda Motorcycles, Patent, Road Safety, Assistive Technologies

Being able to access your EDC gear when you need it is just as important as having quality equipment on hand. PD EDC, which specializes in thoughtfully designed carrying cases for your stuff, has a new organizer in the works that can make it easy to use your gear, and keep it all together when you're out in the field.

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Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors

Tags: EDC, Tools, Kickstarter

Laser weapons go mobile as the US Army takes delivery of two 20-kW, anti-drone Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV)-mounted Laser-Oriented Counter-UAS System (LOCUST) Laser Weapon Systems (LWS) from AeroVironment.

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Category: Military, Technology

Tags: AeroVironment, US Army, Laser weapon

The eVista King tiny house offers a spacious single-floor layout that's suitable for full-time living. However, what really sets this model apart is its enclosed porch, which encourages owners to enjoy an indoor/outdoor lifestyle.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

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