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Angled green roofs reshape urban housing in the Netherlands

Dutch architectural firm MVRDV has completed a green-roof residential development in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, bringing 237 new homes into the city’s historic Bergen district. Dubbed Nieuw Bergen, the project combines new construction with the repurposing of two existing buildings, adding housing while respecting the area’s established scale.

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Category: Architecture, Engineering

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Canyon’s new ebike puts serious V2X safety smarts on 2 wheels

Modern cars are equipped with an increasing number of safety features: blind-spot monitoring, collision warning systems, and automatic emergency braking. At the same time, bicycles seem to be left outside of this safety ecosystem. We see this tendency in real-world statistics: over the past decade, the number of drivers killed in crashes has generally declined, while the number of cyclists killed has increased. Safety has become the number one reason why people choose cars over bikes in some countries, and Canyon aims to change that.

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Category: Bicycles, Transport

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Three-in-one pill cuts heart failure hospitalizations by 60%

A novel three-in-one medication known as a "polypill" has been put to the test in a trial of more than 200 heart failure patients, in an effort to find a new way to effectively treat the condition with fewer drugs and better health outcomes. The findings were just what the scientists had hoped for.

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Category: Heart Disease, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind

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KTM 790 Duke gets most significant upgrade since release 10 years ago

Naked motorcycles are probably the most fun road-going motorcycles money can buy. And when you’re talking about nakeds, KTM’s Dukes are up there with some of the best in the world. Of that entire Duke lineup, it’s the 790 that has fascinated me the most, offering the sweet spot of just enough power to be a serious everyday motorcycle, while remaining incredibly nimble.

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

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Hot dog warning ahead of US holiday sausage bonanza

As an expected 150 million Americans dig into a hot dog this 4th of July weekend, physicians highlight how little we know about the health risks of this kind of processed meat. In fact, close to 90% of US adults surveyed were unsure of or completely unaware of any issues.

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

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India's biggest eVTOL demonstrator just aced its flight tests

India's burgeoning eVTOL industry has seen major advancements, investment, and partnerships taking place over the last few years. The country has just seen an indigenously produced 1,540-lb (700-kg) half-scale demonstrator wrap up its integrated flight testing, inching it closer to the era of air taxis.

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Category: Aircraft, Transport

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Charming house built from the bones of its own colonial-era ruin

Architecture firm Meister Varma has completed a house in Kotagiri, a hill town in India's Nilgiri Mountains, that's held up by the stones of the collapsed colonial-era cottage that once occupied the same plot. It’s called Shilaya, which is from the Sanskrit word for stone. It’s a clear nod to the structure that stood there before it. Shilaya looks south over a garden earmarked for future cottages, with staff quarters to the west.

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Students fly high with new world record for largest paper plane

Building a paper airplane can be as demanding as building the airframe of a real aircraft. And once a group of students in Pisa set out to make the world’s largest one, the classroom craft turned into a very real engineering problem, tackling stability, weight, stiffness and aerodynamics with an almost surgical attention to every millimeter.

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Category: Aircraft, Transport

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Artificial sweeteners face growing scrutiny over long-term health risks

A new review by Tufts University researchers presents comprehensive and convincing research linking common sugar substitutes with metabolic disturbances that begin in the gut and then flow throughout the body. It also highlights issues of food-label transparency in the US.

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Morphing, color-changing liquid stores energy by “charging” into a gel

Energy storage usually brings to mind batteries, capacitors, tanks of hydrogen, or maybe some giant gravity system hauling blocks up a tower. Northwestern University researchers have now demonstrated something a lot stranger: a yellow liquid that “charges” by rebuilding itself into a black gel, stores electrons for months, then releases them on demand to drive chemical reactions.

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Category: Energy, Engineering

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