With the constant pressure for architecture to reduce its massive carbon footprint, studios are always looking for solutions beyond traditional materials. ORGA from the Netherlands has taken on this challenge, rewriting the rulebook by building a carbon-negative neighborhood prototype in the village of Marknesse.

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Category: Architecture, Engineering

Tags: Carbon Neutral, sustainable design, Timber, Building and Construction, Prototype

I certainly didn't have a zero-emissions Ferrari sedan on my 2026 Bingo card, but that's what we're getting with the Luce.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Electric Vehicles, Ferrari, Sedan

Never considering myself much of a writer in my youth, I entered the Young Queensland Writers’ Award in Australia with a throwaway short story I’d whipped up on a whim one weekend in my early twenties.

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Category: Fitness & Exercise, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind

Tags: Sport, Drugs, Olympics

Ashleigh Barrett-Young, University of Otago/ The Conversation

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Category: Brain Health, Body and Mind

Tags: Alzheimer's disease, Biomarkers, Blood, Brain, Aging

The first humanoid "training school" for robots of all shapes and sizes will open its doors in July, bringing together more than 100 different models made by a host of companies. As well as mastering real-world skills, the humanoids will provide unique data that'll be used to advance the bots that follow in their footsteps.

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Category: AI and Humanoids, Technology

Tags: China, Robot Factory, School, Training, Artificial Intelligence, Humanoid

There are more than 800 known species of carnivorous plants. Despite their diverse designs, they all have one thing in common: they are built to trap and kill prey for survival.

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Category: Biology, Science

Tags: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Insect, Carnivorous Plants, Predator, Animal science, Nutrition, nature, Ecosystem

A disabled kea – a native New Zealand parrot – has invented a bizarre jousting technique that helped turn him into the undefeated alpha male of his group. While parrots are known for their smarts, this particular level of inventiveness to hold his place among peers shows real ingenuity and resourcefulness.

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Category: Environment, Science

Tags: New Zealand, Parrot, Disability, Animal science, Behavior, adaptive, Fighter

Titaner is a company that has been producing titanium everyday carry (EDC) gear for more than 20 years. Its products typically focus on compact form, durability, and smart mechanical design. Its latest offering is called the Titaner Matrix. Currently available on Kickstarter, it’s a series of titanium carabiner keychains built around a unique multi-level locking system.

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Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors

Tags: Kickstarter, xxKickbooster, EDC, Titanium

You know that frustration after you gear up for a snowy day, only to have to take it all off in a heated office? Well, penguins don't. Come sweltering heat or frigid cold, they just chill. Inspired by these clumsy masters of thermal management, scientists have created a material that can passively switch between heating and cooling modes.

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Category: Materials, Engineering

Tags: Biomimicry, Harbin Institute of Technology, Heating, Cooling

Deep beneath the Pacific near the equator, Earth’s outer core now flows east instead of west. Dynamics deeper within our planet’s core may help explain the change and what to expect in the near future.

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Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Earth core, Magnetic field, Geology

I've always felt like the Kindle could do with a better way to flip ebook pages. DuRoBo might have solved exactly that problem, with a little dial on the side of its compact E Ink device.

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Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: eBook, Kindle, E-Ink, ePaper, Reading, Android

Clever space-saving layouts are all well and good, but not everyone wants to climb ladders and crawl into loft bedrooms every night. The Surya tiny house avoids this and instead opts for a spacious single-floor interior that's well-suited to comfortable long-term living.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

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

Silk isn't just great as a smooth fabric for luxurious clothing: it's finding a wide range of uses in everything from edible food-preserving wrappers to skin-friendly wearable health monitoring sensors. There's plenty of scope to enhance its characteristics too, and a simple new approach has allowed it to get about as tough as Kevlar.

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Category: Materials, Engineering

Tags: Silk, Kevlar, Tufts University, Imperial College London, University of Michigan

The RAF is buying inflatable missile batteries. It may seem daft, but these lookalike launchers aren't a gag or a ludicrous cost-cutting measure. Part of the new Sting system, their job is to help train fighter pilots in taking out ground-to-air threats.

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Category: Military, Engineering

Tags: Royal Air Force, Aircraft, Fighter, Missile Defense

Stormy skies could send more patients to the emergency room, according to an analysis of weather systems and medical data by researchers in Hungary.

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Category: Stroke, Brain Health, Body and Mind

Tags: Stroke, Brain, Tropical Storms, Emergency

Many of us probably don't get much time to put pen to paper these days, with our world of correspondence now dominated by digital communication. But a new study from Portugal's University of Évora suggests that changes in handwriting could be an early red flag of serious age-related cognitive decline.

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Category: Brain Health, Body and Mind

Tags: Dementia, Cognitive functioning, Brain, Diagnostic tools, Alzheimer's disease, Writing, Processing

This year Fender is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Telecaster, and Nashville was chosen to host the Tele Town birthday party.

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Category: Music, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Fender, Fender Telecaster, Guitar, Features, Interviews

Colin Caprani, Monash University & Scott Menegon, Swinburne University of Technology/ The Conversation

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Category: Physics, Science

Tags: pyramids, Archaeology, Earthquake, History

Want to build a power plant and can't decide between nuclear and natural gas? Why not opt for both? That's the strategy that Blue Energy has developed in collaboration with GE Vernova for a proposed 2.5-GW hybrid facility in Texas that uses both fuels.

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Category: Energy, Engineering

Tags: Small Modular Nuclear Reactor, Gas, Power Stations

Not every tiny house has to be a massive apartment on wheels. Case in point is the Koala Bear, which embraces the roots of the small living movement and leans into its strength as a portable home for one or two modern nomads.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

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