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.
Category: Fitness & Exercise, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Ashleigh Barrett-Young, University of Otago/ The Conversation
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
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.
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.
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.
Category: Military, Engineering
Tags: Royal Air Force, Aircraft, Fighter, Missile Defense
Xiaomi is gearing up to announce its next T-series phones: the 17T and 17T Pro. Ahead of the launch, the company sent us the new devices so we could check them out. We spent some time specifically shooting the Pro model to see what the camera is like. You can check out the resulting images in the gallery below.
We'll be able to share more details at launch, so stay tuned to hear more on May 28th at 3:00 PM CEST (GMT+2) / 9:00 AM EDT.
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Sample galleryThis widget is not optimized for RSS feed readers. Click here to open it in a new browser window / tab.Stormy skies could send more patients to the emergency room, according to an analysis of weather systems and medical data by researchers in Hungary.
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.
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.
Category: Music, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Fender, Fender Telecaster, Guitar, Features, Interviews
Colin Caprani, Monash University & Scott Menegon, Swinburne University of Technology/ The Conversation
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.
Category: Energy, Engineering
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.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
Alongside the a7R VI, Sony launched an ambitious new telephoto lens: the FE 100-400mm F4.5 GM OSS. It has a constant aperture through its range, internal zoom, and a wide selection of controls, making it clear that it's aimed towards professional sports and action photographers.
We were able to shoot it alongside the a7R VI, taking it to a rugby game, a bird sanctuary and the streets of New York City to test it in a variety of scenarios. And, now that we have Raw support for the a7R VI, we can provide a closer look at how the lens performs, without having to worry about what corrections the body is applying and JPEG noise reduction. You can see the results in the gallery below.
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While we typically process images for a lens sample gallery using Capture One, we used the Sony a7R VI to test the lens, which isn't currently supported by that program. We've reverted to processing these images using ACR. We've worked to use settings similar to our standard C1 recipe while also using the lens' built-in correction profile. No correction for vignetting was applied, and we'll replace the images with ones processed in Capture One when a7R VI support becomes available.
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