Canada is set to begin work on a high-speed inter-city rail network – the largest infrastructure project in the country's history. Spanning 621 miles (1,000 km), its lines will help commuters travel between Toronto and Montréal – the two biggest cities in Canada – within three hours, or half the time it would usually take. The trains will go from Toronto to Quebec City, also stopping in Peterborough, Ottawa, Laval and Trois-Rivières.

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Category: Transport

Tags: Trains, High speed train, Canada, Public Transport

People who sit on the low or high side of normal vitamin B12 levels are still at risk of cognitive impairment, according to a new study. The researchers behind the study say we need to rethink the ‘healthy’ range for the vitamin that plays a key role in brain and nerve health.

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

Tags: Cognitive functioning, Brain, Dementia

"A space that can turn into a trailer, instead of a trailer that can turn into a space." It may sound like a negligible difference upon first read, but the Touchdown trailer from Expandable proves that it's actually a significant one. The new towable living space serves as a panoramic designer mobile home that drops to ground level with a retractable chassis and grows its floor plan with an electric expansion system, ensuring that off-grid living feels the polar opposite of "roughing it." It's definitely a space first, a trailer second.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Lifestyle

Tags: Trailer, trailers, Smart Home, smart RV, RV, Caravan, Off-grid, Transformable

When you're backcountry camping, you'll likely be carrying a tent while using a trekking pole. The Trek-Tent combines both of those things in one device, which can reportedly be converted into a tent in just one minute.

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Category: Outdoors, Lifestyle

Tags: Tent, Trekking, Pole, Camping, Kickstarter, Transformable

In 2020 an incredible video went viral. It featured a former ballet dancer named Marta Cinta González Saldaña, suffering from severe Alzheimer’s disease in her senior years. In the video, Saldaña listens to a piece of music from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and suddenly flashes awake beginning to move to a dance routine she presumably rehearsed over and over in her younger days.

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

Tags: Digital music, Brain, Memory, Alzheimer's disease, Dementia, ADHD

Aspartame has long been marketed as a guilt-free alternative to sugar in popular food products, ranging from zero-calorie Diet Coke to sugar-free Jell-O. It's also had a pretty bad rap, and the artificial sweetener has now been linked to an increased risk of heart attacks and stroke in mice. But not everyone's convinced this is as bad as it sounds for humans.

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Category: Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & Mind

Tags: Sugar, Heart Disease, Artificial, Food

Mobile tech company Oukitel made a splash at CES last month with what's claimed to be the first 33,000-mAh rugged smartphone with a built-in projector. Now the WP100 Titan adventure toolkit has launched on Kickstarter.

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Category: Mobile Technology, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: smartphones, Rugged, Light, Projectors, Kickstarter

Estrogens are best known as hormones that regulate sexual development in women, although men produce them as well. Now, a new study finds that a particular kind of estrogen might have an additional role to play in suppressing appetite.

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

Tags: estrogen, Diet, Hunger, Food, Hormone, Weight Loss

For years, Gerber has been fine-tuning base camp with various tools and kits. The Stakeout has served as its camping-specific multitool since 2022, adding a handy tent stake-puller to the usual knife/saw/bottle opener party. Now Gerber grows the Stakeout into a small family with the all-new Stakeout Spark. True to its name, this base-camp-to-backcountry handheld brings fire-starting capabilities and adds a new form factor to the Stakeout lineup.

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Category: Outdoors, Lifestyle

Tags: Outdoors and Camping, Camping, Multitools, Gerber, Backpacking, firestarter, Fire

France has upped the ante in the quest for fusion power by maintaining a plasma reaction for over 22 minutes – a new record. The milestone was reached on February 12 at the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) WEST Tokamak reactor.

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Category: Energy, Technology

Tags: France, Nuclear Fusion, Power, Nuclear

Australians will wait an average of 12 years before getting treatment for mental health or substance use disorders, according to a new study. While the findings are rather grim, the study did find that younger people are much more likely to seek help for their mental health when they need it.

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Category: Mental Health, Brain Health, Body & Mind

Tags: University of Sydney, mental health, Treatment, Anxiety, Depression

Hunting and wildlife observation is like the start of the classic recipe for rabbit stew – first catch your rabbit or, at least, find it. The new Thermal Master T2 Max thermal scope makes that job a bit easier with its high resolution system. Let's take a look.

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Category: Electronics, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Thermal Imaging, Reviews, Camera