A tiny trailer with huge ambitions, the new Skookum from Alberta-based Tactical Overland is a family trailer specced for clans with surnames like "Amundsen" and "Hillary." Because this trailer is built to push beyond the usual limits of off-roading and overlanding, making camp out of the most remote parts of Canada, even in the dead of winter. It collapses inward for travel but expands into a two-story 4-sleeper base camp with space to work, cook, shower and live your best off-grid life.

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Category: Camping Trailers, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

Tags: teardrop trailers, trailers, Trailer, Caravan, RV, Off-road, Off-grid, Camping, Outdoors and Camping

An aquarium can really add a touch of class to a home or business, particularly if it's got some fancy fish in it – but such fish can be very hard to keep. So, why not just buy a weirdly lifelike "robofish" like this one, that needs nothing more than a daily battery-charge?

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Category: Robotics, Engineering

Tags: Fish, Biomimicry

The Smart ForTwo was a much-loved microcar that came with an array of customization options over the years, but its biggest strength was its small footprint. It practically took up half of a parking spot, and I’m happy to say its successor follows that same recipe.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Smart, Electric Vehicles, Mercedes-Benz, Geely

If you’re a longtime viewer of The Simpsons, then you know at least two things about Homer: he loves doughnuts, and he’s an absolutely terrible designer of vehicles. But that doesn’t mean no one should ever combine vehicle design with doughnuts, as French company aérOnde has shown us with its aérOnde (“Air-Round”) airship that looks like a giant, flying doughnut covered in white icing.

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Category: Aircraft, Transport

Tags: eVTOL, Balloon, Airships

It’s generally believed that the most complex systems of our world began from very simple things. Then, as a force of survival, evolution began to occur, and things gradually became more complex. This same perspective applies to science’s general understanding of the origin of life. The entire complexity of the molecular system, and life as we know it, all began from something very small, and has evolved into the concept of genetics and modern biology.

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Category: Biology, Science

Tags: RNA, Evolution

In an astonishing mix of modern technology with traditional rural crafts, English specialist sports car company Morgan has just unveiled its fastest-ever model.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Morgan, Sports Cars, Retro, Roadster

Humans are eating more fructose than ever and it’s becoming problematic — not just for our widening waistlines but for our brains, mounting research suggests.

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Category: Biology, Science

Tags: fructose, Sugar, Gut health, Gut Bacteria, Anxiety

Oppo’s Find X9 Ultra takes smartphone photography to the next level with a 10x optical zoom telephoto and dual 200MP cameras built around a Hasselblad-tuned system, plus an externally mounted teleconverter lens option to reach even farther.

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Category: Mobile Technology, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Oppo, Hasselblad, Photography, Lens, smartphones

It doesn't take much to pick up a viral infection in spaces we share with other people – whether it's from tiny droplets in the air containing these particles, or touching doorknobs and countertops in offices and hospitals.

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Category: Engineering

Tags: Materials, Virus, Silicon, Coating, RMIT University

Around 30 million Americans are living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) – close to double the number of those officially diagnosed – making it one of the deadliest health conditions worldwide. While frontline treatment is generally medication to support and boost lung function, it's a surprisingly complex disease without a one-size-fits-all management plan and a good deal of conflicting advice on interventions like exercise.

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

Tags: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), Inflammation, Nutrition, Anti-inflammatory, Chronic illness, Age-Related, Lung disease, Antioxidant

Beneath the expansive concrete overpass amid the bustling hub of Causeway Bay, you'll find a bizarre and enduring tradition in Hong Kong – "villain hitting." Here, elderly women perform an elaborate ritual that involves bashing a name written on paper with a shoe, while chanting, to free people from someone causing them grief and encourage fortune and peace in their place.

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Category: Holiday Destinations, Outdoors

Tags: History, China, Traditional medicine, Ghosts, ancient, Shoes, Fire, World's Most Powerful

“Purity” is one of the many myths of perfection, suggesting that absolute conformity is the only way to produce supreme value. Just as that claim is false for human populations, new research in physics at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) shows it’s also false for solar cells.

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Category: Energy, Engineering

Tags: Institute Of Science And Technology Austria, Perovskite, Solar Cell, Photovoltaic

This 215-sq-ft (20-sq-m) tiny house may be on the smaller side, but it still manages to make room for some of life's luxuries. The non-towable home features a comfortable interior for two and even has its own sauna and hot tub nearby.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

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

Imagine a device using an energy source the size of planet Earth, and offering nearly limitless electricity with no ecologically devastating mining required to get it. Science fiction? A lie from Big Battery? A fentanyl fantasy from the Energizer Bunny? No – it’s real, and it’s the ocean.

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Category: Energy, Engineering

Tags: EPFL, Clean Energy, Water, Semiconductors

Volkswagen hasn’t exactly nailed the EV game yet … globally, at least. With the much hyped ID.7 sedan scrapped for North America, and cars like the ID.Buzz reporting bleak sales, VW was in a fix.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Volkswagen, Electric Vehicles, Buttons, Screens, Hot hatch

I'm pretty religious about swapping out my HVAC filter every month. When I pay rent, I change the filter. That's just how I do it. Living in a beach town means the wind is pretty much always blowing, and in my case, it's blowing in from the Gulf. The means sand and dust are a constant. And at this particular moment, it's peak pollen season here! If I leave anything outside for a day or two, it's yellow.

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Category: Around The Home, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Air purifying, Air Conditioners, Filters, Home, Reviews

The Mova LiDAX Ultra 1000 was hands down the most frustrating mower I've used so far. The caster front wheels made this thing completely unusable in my sandy grass no matter what I tried. So I rage quit and took it down the street to a neighbor's house, where he and his wife spend a significant amount of time caring for their perfect lawn, perfect yard, and lovely garden. If there's any lawn this thing should, could, will, or has to work on, it'd be theirs.

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Category: Around The Home, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Lawnmower, Lawnmowers, Autonomous, Mower, Reviews, Garden

A lot of tiny houses nowadays are anything but. For those who think they should actually live up to their name, the Mantra Micro Cabin is an ultra-compact dwelling that ditches the bells and whistles to sleep two for just US$17,000.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

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

California-based aerospace company Airhart Aeronautics recently completed test flights of its new cockpit avionics suite for small planes at the company's Long Beach facility. We sat down with Airhart President Nate Thuli to learn more.

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Category: Aircraft, Transport

Tags: Aircraft, Flight Tests, Interviews

For most people, it’s hard to fathom what true speed on a motorcycle actually feels like. Even most riders have never experienced velocities that might make them question their place in the world.

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Steam Power, Land Speed Records, World Records, World's Fastest, Crazy