Skipping just one night of sleep causes healthy adults to see a spike in immune cells linked to chronic inflammation, a key feature of obesity, according to new research. The good news is that once normal sleep is restored, things return to normal, highlighting the powerful link between sleep and immune health.

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Category: Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & Mind

Tags: Sleep, Sleep deprivation, The Immune System, Obesity, Dasman Diabetes Institute

A battery that's safer and cheaper than lithium-ion while offering comparable energy density? That sounds like a pipe dream. But such a battery is in fact in the works, using a chemistry of renewables to store over 220 W/kg. Singaporean startup Flint believes it has the formula for the most sustainable battery the world has ever seen, capable of replacing lithium for applications like EV power and grid storage. Maybe that is a dream. Or maybe it's the revolutionary eco-optimized battery of the near-future.

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Category: Energy, Technology

Tags: Battery Technology, Battery, Electric Vehicles, Grid-Level Energy Storage

A fascinating collaborative study in 2022, between researchers at the University of Oxford and Tufts University, suggested two common viruses could be working in tandem to trigger the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s disease. The findings built on a growing body of evidence implicating the herpes virus in neurodegenerative disease and also turned research attention to a second virus that causes chicken pox.

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Category: Alzheimer's & Dementia, Brain Health, Body & Mind

Tags: Virus, Alzheimer's disease, Dementia, Brain, Neuroscience

The winning entries for the 2025 World Nature Photography Awards aren't just technically solid images of Earth's diverse fauna and landscapes. This time around, you'll find astonishingly beautiful compositions that tell dramatic tales and depict the incredible backdrops against which the lives of fascinating creatures on our planet play out.

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Category: Photography, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Wildlife, Animals, Competition

Yes, you heard that right – following a vote at the regional court in Ried im Innkreis, Upper Austria, KTM's creditors have approved the company's reorganization plan. The entire amount of claims made against KTM was €2.25 billion (US$2.36 billion), of which €2 billion ($2.1 billion) has been acknowledged.

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: KTM, Bajaj, MV Agusta, BMW, CFMoto, Financial

If you're going to be carrying a compass anyway while out in the wilderness, why not carry one that performs multiple functions? That's the idea behind the Loki-Nav compass, which also packs a mirror, magnifying glass, and tinder-making wood file.

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Category: Outdoors, Lifestyle

Tags: Multitools, Kickstarter, Titanium

Back in 2016, we featured a stunning wooden machine that employed falling steel marbles to play a merry tune. As plans are drawn up for a new version, its builder has looked back to the designs of Leonardo da Vinci for inspiration.

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Category: Music, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Instrument, Art, Engineering, Wooden

Last week, Yamaha revealed a hybrid motorcycle engine system it's working on, plonked in a maxi scooter prototype. It could spell an interesting new direction for the Japanese two-wheeler giant to explore if it comes to pass.

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Hybrid, Yamaha, Prototype, Motor, Engine Technologies

Following its tiny FP camera from 2019, lens brand Sigma has unveiled the new BF, a mirrorless full-frame affair carved from a single block of aluminum. It's aimed at shooters looking for a simpler, more intuitive approach to photography without all the technological excesses of modern gear.

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Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Camera, Mirrorless Cameras, Sigma, Full-frame

Though it only has a length of 5.2 m (17 ft), the Beau River Tiny House has been carefully designed to maximize sleeping capacity. The compact model features an "upside-down" layout that sleeps up to six people, at a squeeze.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Lifestyle

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

New research has linked the use of diet and fitness apps to problematic eating habits and body image issues, particularly in young people. It highlights the fine line that exists between using these apps for motivation and using them to perpetuate potentially dangerous behaviors.

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Category: Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & Mind

Tags: Fitness, Diet, Body image, Disordered eating, Flinders University

Human protection against bird flu may be easier than scientists previously thought, thanks to new findings about the core genetic makeup of the virus and one particular T cell that all of us have in our immune-system arsenal. This means that many of us will have some innate ability to fight off the virus, but also provides many new avenues to develop the first human vaccine.

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Category: Infectious Diseases, Illnesses and conditions, Body & Mind

Tags: La Trobe University, avian-influenza, Influenza, The Immune System, Vaccines, pandemic

German inflatables specialist X Gloo is on a mission to make all kinds of RVs inflatable. The company's inflatable pop-top design has already featured in some of the most show-stopping motorhomes and caravans of the past decade and shows no signs of slowing down. X Gloo has turned its attention to creating an inflatable pop-up roof for one of the most recognizable camper base vans in the world: the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter. And it's using the air-insulated walls to carve out one of the most stylish, homey pop-up bedrooms the camping world has seen.

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Category: Outdoors, Lifestyle

Tags: Campervan, Mercedes-Benz, Inflatable, Camping, Outdoors and Camping, cmt-2025, Hymer

Most people know just how great Japanese motorcycles can be. However, some of the coolest motorcycles from the Land of the Rising Sun never make their way to the West. Take, for instance, Honda's quarter-liter vehicles, such as the Tricker, the likes of which have long been discontinued. But Honda still produces some really cool big-bore four-cylinder engines that some parts of the globe never get a look at.

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Honda, Honda Motorcycles, Naked bike, Japan

Chinese robotics company Zhongqing Robotics (aka EngineAI) just front-flipped into the humanoid robotics scene. The firm has posted a video of what is claimed to be the world's first humanoid robot front flip.

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Category: AI & Humanoids, Technology

Tags: Agility Robotics, Boston Dynamics, Robotics, Figure, Humanoid

Crop fertilizers are a major source of pollution, as the chemicals make their way out of the soil and into the natural environment. Scientists are now working on a possible solution to that problem, by developing a sustained-release fertilizer that takes the form of tiny glass beads.

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Category: Science

Tags: Agriculture, Crops, Plants, Glass, University of Sao Paulo

Though China's InMotion does roll out crazy powerful electric unicycles for adventure-hungry risk-takers, the company has models to suit every rider level. The V9 is currently unique though, and is pitched as the first e-uni in the world to be safety certified by TÜV Rheinland.

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Category: Urban Transport, Transport

Tags: Unicycle, Electric Vehicles, Safety

The Marrangaroo tiny house has been created to allow a small family to live off-the-grid in comfort. Measuring just 8.4 m (27.6 ft) in length, it features a well-designed interior layout that maximizes the limited space available.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Lifestyle

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

Last week, the US Space Force posted a photo online from its uncrewed X-37B space plane's seventh mission, showing the orbital test vehicle above our planet in High Earth Orbit. Now that's a selfie worth sharing.

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Category: Space, Science

Tags: Kennedy Space Center, SpaceX, Boeing, X-37B

Transplanting insulin-producing cells along with engineered blood-vessel-forming cells has successfully reversed type 1 diabetes, according to a new preclinical study. With further testing, the novel approach could one day cure the as-yet incurable condition.

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Category: Diabetes, Illnesses and conditions, Body & Mind

Tags: Type 1 diabetes, Transplant, Genetic engineering, Weill Cornell Medicine