Jeff Bezos is gainfully employed once more, after having left his post as Amazon CEO back in 2021. Cade Metz at The New York Times reports that the billionaire founder of space tech giant Blue Origin is now co-CEO at Project Prometheus, a startup that describes itself as building "AI for the physical economy."

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Category: AI and Humanoids, Technology

Tags: Manufacturing Technologies, Amazon.Com, Artificial Intelligence, Google DeepMind, Robotics

In the most comprehensive investigation of the ketogenic diet’s mental health effects yet, researchers pooled 50 studies spanning six decades to see what we actually know about its influence on mood. The results are a mix of promising and "too early to say."

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

Tags: Ketogenic diet, Keto, Obesity, Depression, Anxiety, mental health, Diet, metabolism

Despite the advice of two of the most successful pop anthems of the last two decades, when it comes to depression, no one can just “shake it off” or “let it go.” If we jump back to 1988, we’ll find the advice “don’t worry, be happy” to be just as worthless. People can’t simply “think their way” out of depression, and hectoring them to do so probably makes them feel worse, which can lead to terrible results.

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Category: Mental Health, Brain Health, Body and Mind

Tags: Depression, Suicide, Columbia University, McGill University

With the SoundCam Go acoustic camera, you can be that person in your neigborhood social media group who can answer those “Where's that noise coming from?” questions whenever an unexplained sound is reported. And the device connects to your phone.

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Category: Photography, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Kickstarter, Sound, Audio

A sneaky, stealthy parasite queen can turn an ant colony against itself. Newly-mated queens of two parasitic ant species have been found to sneak into an ant colony, creep towards the resident ant queen, and spray a chemical to trigger matricide, i.e., tricking ants into slaughtering their own mother so she can take over the colony.

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Category: Biology, Science

Tags: ANT+, Ants, Insect

Today's autonomous vehicles rely on cameras, radar and LiDAR sensors to understand their surroundings and avoid obstacles on the road. Boston, Massachusetts-based startup Teradar believes it can beat those technologies at their own game by looking elsewhere on the electromagnetic spectrum.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Autonomous Vehicles, Radar, LIDAR, Self driving cars, Terahertz

If you need to charge your $1,000 cell phone, you can simply plug it in, or even more easily, just lay it on a charging mat. But what if something similar to NASA's $2.7 billion Perseverance rover has somehow suffered damage to its nuclear battery, and is about to lose all power? Can’t it just plug itself in, or roll onto its own charging mat?

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Category: Energy, Technology

Tags: Imperial College London, Wireless Charging

The 2025 winner of the prestigious World Building of the Year prize has been revealed. The Holy Redeemer Church and Community Centre of Las Chumberas, by Fernando Menis, got the nod for its rugged concrete design and community focused approach.

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Category: Architecture, Technology

Tags: Building and Construction, Architects, Awards, World Architecture Festival

One of the brain’s biggest benefits from exercise – the birth of new neurons – may not even require any movement. Instead, the beneficial “packages” circulating in the blood after working out can be successfully transferred to others.

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Category: Brain Health, Body and Mind

Tags: University of Illinois, Neuroscience, Cognitive functioning, Alzheimer's disease, Exercise, neurons, Brain, Stem Cells, PTSD, Depression, Neurodegenerative conditions

We've all heard of the waiter's corkscrew, but how about the barista's Swiss Army knife? The Swiss toolmakers at Victorinox have teamed up with Italian espresso machine manufacturer La Marzocco to create a special-edition multitool that combines timeless Swiss Army standards with specialist coffee tools. It's a handy piece of EDC (everyday carry) for one of the world's most popular EDDs (everyday drinks).

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Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors

Tags: Victorinox, Swiss Army, Coffee, ESPRESSO, Multitools, EDC, Kitchen

Seeing the name Leica stamped on a product usually means a couple of things. You'll be getting top-notch quality, but you'll also need to part with a huge wad of cash. That's true of the company's Cine Play 1 laser projector, but the new Plus version could surprise in the price department.

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Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Leica, Projectors, Laser, 4K UHD

In a first, scientists believe they have confirmed we have another sense – a “remote touch” that we share with others in the animal kingdom, like some shorebird species that can sense pray beneath sand without seeing or touching it first.

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Category: Biology, Science

Tags: Queen Mary University of London, Sensory, Touch, Robots, Physics, Perception, Artificial Intelligence

This pint-sized tiny house only measures 172 sq ft (16 sq m) but manages to squeeze in a surprisingly livable interior suitable for one or two people to live off-grid full-time. Named Sofia, it features a clever space-saving layout that maximizes every inch of available space.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

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

Researchers have demonstrated how a secret weapon made in the gut, produced by consuming foods like pomegranate and walnuts, can rejuvenate the immune system in middle age, shielding us from cell damage, inflammation and chronic diseases including cancer.

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

Tags: Gut Bacteria, Microbiome, anti-aging, Anti-inflammatory, Age-Related, The Immune System, T-cells, Cancer, Chronic illness

At the bottom of the ocean, where metal-rich hydrothermal vents exhale poison, a bright yellow worm has mastered an impossible art: turning lethal elements into armor. Meet Paralvinella hessleri, the deep-sea super-worm that detoxifies arsenic by turning it into crystal.

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Category: Biology, Science

Tags: Ocean, Poisons, Animals

A recently published study shows promising results from combining edible turkey tail fungus with a solution of wood fibers. The end product is a natural sustainable waterproof coating that may be be a replacement for single-use plastic food wrap and synthetic paper cup coatings.

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Category: Materials, Science

Tags: Fungus, University of Maine, American Chemical Society, Mushrooms, Sustainability

Last year’s CFMoto booth at EICMA motorcycle expo in Milan was perhaps the hottest one at the show. At the center of all the excitement was a completely new, state-of-the-art liter-class V4 and a 'Master of Speed' superbike concept. Fast forward to this year’s EICMA, and we already have a proper superbike housing that very same engine.

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: CFMoto, EICMA 2025, Superbike, V4, Prototype, Yamaha, Honda Motorcycles, Ducati

A few days ago, California-based defense tech firm Anduril concluded the first test flights of its semi-autonomous Fury fighter jet without a pilot in the cockpit. Oh wait, there's actually no cockpit in there at all.

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Category: Military, Technology

Tags: Anduril, Fighter, Jets, Autonomous flight, US Air Force

We've heard of off-grid toilets that macerate, compost, incinerate and electro-wrap. We even stumbled on one that "super-composts" just a few weeks ago. We guess we should have expected one that processes waste into a fine fog ... but we did not. The French-designed Etteliot S is an add-on for existing dry separating toilets that automatically electrolyzes and aerosolizes urine so campers don't have to see it again later. Inspired or insane?

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Category: RVs and Motorhomes, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

Tags: Off-grid, Toilet, Camping, RV, Outdoors and Camping

You just can’t trust what you hear.

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Category: AI and Humanoids, Technology

Tags: CSIRO, Deepfakes, Voice hacking