Bike Friday has been hand-building custom folding bikes and ebikes since being founded in 1992. Now with some 40,000 bikes shipped, the company has officially announced a new ultralight ebike model called the All Day.
Tags: Custom, ebikes, Pedal-assisted, Bosch, Foldable bike, Lightweight, Handbuilt
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have come up with a better prosthetic hand that uses a hybrid design to carefully grip various objects with just the right amount of pressure.
Category: Robotics, Technology
Tags: Prosthetics, medical-robotics, Robotic, Johns Hopkins University
A study of over 220,000 people that looked at the consumption of butter versus plant oils has reached a conclusion that shows just how much better for you one is than the other. Making the switch might be one of the easiest ways to extend your life.
Category: Diet & Nutrition, Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & Mind
Tags: Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT, Harvard, Vegetable oil, Nutrition, Cancer, Cardiovascular, Cholesterol
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has revealed plans for a pair of eye-catching towers. Featuring a futuristic swooping glazed and metal design, the buildings will rise upwards from a shared base and provide views of a nearby volcano.
Category: Architecture, Lifestyle
Tags: Building and Construction, Zaha Hadid, Skyscrapers, Italy
Californian EV startup Telo just revealed a functional prototype of its MT1 mini-truck at an in-person event in Los Angeles. That signals the company is inching closer to production and getting its rationally sized vehicles on to the road.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Electric Vehicles, Electric truck, Pickup, Compact
Hitting a plateau after a steady run of weight loss has derailed many health and fitness plans. But what if you could flick a biological switch that would eradicate the plateau and speed up metabolism? Scientists may have just found the key to this – and it was by complete accident.
Category: Diet & Nutrition, Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & Mind
Tags: University of Southern Denmark, Obesity, metabolism, Weight Loss, Diet, Fasting, Ozempic
DARPA has launched a new prototype warship for the US Navy that not only won't need any sailors, it can't even accommodate them. The 180-ft (55-m), 240-tonne No Manning Required Ship (NOMARS) put to sea last month ahead of sea trials.
Category: Military, Technology
Tags: DARPA, US Navy, Ships, Autonomous
Apple TV+ has clearly decided to invest in top-shelf science fiction as a defining pillar of its offering – and overall, it's put together an impressive slate. Some shows have been outright successes, and where others have missed, there's at least been a refreshingly grand artistic swing.
Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: TV, Streaming, Science Fiction, Entertainment, Space exploration, Apple TV, Apple, 2025 Updates
Most Harley-Davidson new launches are loaded with infinite amounts of chrome, a raked-out front wheel, ape hangers, tassels, and shining lights. Not this one. Coming at US$110,000, Harley-Davidson's most expensive production motorcycle isn't what you might think.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Harley Davidson, Racing
After screening 20,000 protein-encoding genes in the human body, Stanford researchers have identified a naturally occurring molecule that works like semaglutide, most popularly known as Ozempic, to put the brakes on appetite and weight gain.
Category: Obesity, Illnesses and conditions, Body & Mind
Tags: Weight Loss, Stanford University, Ozempic, Molecules
Specialized has followed last year's launch of a 33-lb carbon e-commuter with a cheaper version that's built around an alloy frame, with the company boasting that "nothing in alloy is lighter."
Tags: ebikes, Pedal-assisted, Specialized Bikes
Researchers at Northwestern University have made a breakthrough in identifying a way for Alzheimer's disease to be treated far more effectively in the future – using the brain's own immune cells.
Category: Alzheimer's & Dementia, Brain Health, Body & Mind
Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest known meteorite impact crater. Located in Western Australia, the crater has been dated to about 3.5 billion years ago, at a time when these almost literally Earth-shattering events should have been occurring regularly.
Category: Science
Tags: Earth, Asteroid, Meteorite, Impact, Geology, Australia, Curtin University, World's Oldest
The world’s first typewriter goes to auction in Köln (Germany) on 22 March 2025. Just 35 Malling Hansen Writing Balls remain, 30 are in museums and the battle for one of the few remaining specimens will be worth watching because as the supply diminishes the price goes up.
Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle
Tags: Typewriter, History, Auction
A pair of extraordinary space missions that have been headed out of the solar system for almost half a century are getting a new lease on life as NASA engineers order the Voyager 1 and 2 deep-space probes to shut down two instruments to save power.
Modular EV startup Canoo has had a rough go of things over the past few years, and its journey might well be at its bitter end. CEO Anthony Aquila is set to acquire the bankrupt firm's assets for a bargain, and that's usually the way things wrap up in this business.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Electric Vehicles, canoo
Scientists have identified new gene modifications that can make tomatoes and eggplants grow bigger, which could help boost yields in developing countries.
Tags: Food, Food security, Food technology, Crops, Genetic engineering, Genetics, Fruit, Plants, Johns Hopkins University, CRISPR
A new study has ranked the best types of exercise for improving sleep quality. The findings demonstrate that exercise is an easy-to-implement, relatively cheap, and particularly effective way of treating insomnia, a common problem for older adults.
Category: Sleep, Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & Mind
Tags: Insomnia, Sleep, Age-Related, Exercise, Mahidol University
A trailer you can see clean through, the Naledi Camper is as simple and straightforward to use as any other teardrop on the road, but it packs two big distinguishing features: oversized picture windows on each side. Campers get sandwiched between huge views of the local surroundings to which they traveled, providing a camping experience more akin to sleeping in the fresh air on naked ground ... albeit from the comfort of a sheltered foam mattress.
Tags: teardrop trailers, Caravan, Trailer, trailers, Outdoors and Camping, Camping, RV
The signed original lead sheet music for We Are the World as performed by U.S.A. for Africa heads to auction this week, reminding us that “the world must come together as one.”
Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle
Tags: Auction, Julien's Auctions, pop music
