Humans and cattle share a long history. Domesticated from a now-extinct ox species around 10,500 years ago, cows have become a major source of protein, dairy, and leather worldwide.
Tags: Agriculture, Farming, Animals, Cows, Cows
Every year, billions of tons of dust are lifted into the air and dispersed by winds across continents and oceans. This dust deposition has long been recognized as an important process that contributes to soil formation and delivers essential macro and micronutrients to soils.
Tags: Plants, Nutrition, Agriculture, Leaf
Alex Dittrich, Nottingham Trent University/ The Conversation
Category: Environment, Science
The average $2 Bic lighter is great for lighting up a cigarette but not as great for lighting campfires or grills. Minnesota startup Radlight presents an intriguing alternative developed specifically for such outdoorsy tasks ... and for fending off hypothermia when things really go south. Its oversized weatherproof lighter delivers a confident, reliable starter flame, even if you're battling squall winds, horizontal rain or temperatures as low as -40.
Tags: Fire, Survival, EDC, Outdoors and Camping, Camping, Backpacking, Bikepacking
In 2025, data centers consumed 485 TWh of electricity. Thirty percent of that, more than the entire annual power consumption of Sweden, went to cooling. Scientists have developed a 3D-printed copper-plate cooling tech that can slash this figure by over 90%!
Category: Energy, Engineering
Tags: University of Illinois, Cooling, Data Center, Metals
Mercedes-AMG has pulled out all the stops for its latest performance vehicle. The all-electric GT 4-Door sprints from 0-60 mph (0-100 km/h) in just 2 seconds, and it even emulates the sound of a thundering V8 while it's at it.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Mercedes-AMG, Electric Vehicles, yasa
At various facilities around the world, hundreds of brains wait in a cryopreserved state in the hopes that one day, death from a terminal illness may be considered a transient condition.
Category: Brain Health, Body and Mind
Tags: Deaths, Cryopreservation, Brain
Not everyone is cut out for climbing into cramped tiny house loft bedrooms. The Tallebudgera addresses this with a spacious layout suitable for full-time living that's arranged on a single floor.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
JCB, the British construction equipment giant best known for its signature yellow construction machinery, is returning to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah with the Hydromax – a hydrogen-powered land speed racer 32.8 ft (nearly 10 m) long – with a declared target of exceeding 350 mph (563 km/h).
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: JCB, Hydrogen-powered, Land+Speed+Records
Somewhere in the hills outside the city of Karjat in India, there is a marvelous house that bridges the gap between two pieces of land. Built by Wallmakers, the Bridge House spans 100 feet (30 m) across two streams that have carved a 30-ft (7-m) gorge through the landscape, and expertly combines mud, steel and thatch to create a simple yet functional four-bedroom home.
Category: Architecture, Engineering
Tags: Bridge, Housing, House, Building and Construction
Nic Rawlence, University of Otago/ The Conversation
Tags: Extinction, Birds, Eggs, Biotechnology
So this is what a Harley-Davidson Bagger would look like if BMW Motorrad made it. Not too shabby! BMW recently took to the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este on Lake Como to unveil the Vision K18 concept motorcycle, and it’s got the motorcycle industry on notice.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: BMW, BMW Motorrad, Harley Davidson, Aluminum, Concept Motorcycles
Is life really out there? The Fermi Paradox famously presents a compelling statistical argument as to why life should be abundant throughout the cosmos.
Tags: Life, Astronomy, biochemistry, Organic
The day is coming when you may walk past a robot and have no idea it was a robot. Over years of engineering, we've given robots skeletons, brains, senses, and even a nervous system. Muscles have proven particularly complex (not that the other things were easy).
Category: Robotics, Engineering
Tags: Harvard, 3D Printing, Artificial Muscles
Could glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) nix the inflammation that drives asthma? Maybe, according to a large national study in Denmark.
Category: Obesity, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: GLP-1 receptor agonists, Weight Loss, Inflammation, Asthma, Asthma inhaler, Respiratory health, Lung, Chronic illness
With the new Osmo Mobile 8P, DJI's borrowing a handy feature from its high-end Ronin gimbals for mirrorless cameras for its latest smartphone stabilizer – and then taking things up a notch.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: DJI Innovations, Gimbals, Photography, Cameras
Like the spin of a cosmic coin, a unique set of particle oscillations could ultimately decide the fate of the Universe’s biggest suns.
Tags: Black hole, Neutrino, Supernova, Stars
Nissan keeps the factory camper vans coming. Its newest is built atop its smallest van, the Clipper kei van, which measures in under 3.4 meters (11.2 feet) long. To make it a micro-camper, Nissan relies on a basic household staple with which everyday DIY handymen have been familiar for ages: pegboard. The van's integrated peg panels serve as a simple, affordable means of holding up the bed and providing highly versatile storage organization for related (and unrelated) outdoor adventures.
Category: Campervans, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: Kei Cars, mini-campervan, Nissan, Campervan, RV, Cargo, Japanese, Camping, Outdoors and Camping
It isn't easy harnessing the power of waves in the sea to generate electricity, but a Spanish engineering firm is giving it the ol' college try with a giant floating buoy.
Category: Energy, Engineering
Tags: Wave, Ocean, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy
Though many of us take grid power for granted, if it goes down for any reason many of us are left in the dark. The Sierro is a new compact home backup system designed to keep your most important devices, like your fridge, router, or CPAP machine, running through an outage.
Category: Around The Home, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Kickstarter, Battery, Backup, Power, Compact
