The very first blood test for Alzheimer's disease detection has been green-lit by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), providing a simpler and less invasive method for early diagnosis and speedier intervention. It's a milestone moment for medical science.

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

Tags: Diagnostic tools, Alzheimer's disease, Dementia, Cognitive functioning, Blood, Plasma, Brain, Treatment, clinical trials

Chinese hardware giant Huawei's latest piece of gear is wild. The MateBook Fold Ultimate Design looks like a 13-inch laptop on the outside, until you open it to reveal an 18-inch foldable screen that's just 7.3 mm thick. For reference, an iPhone 16 has a depth of 7.8 mm.

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Category: Laptops, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Laptop, Huawei, Foldable

Axial flux motors have really started to make some noise in the electric mobility market of late. Adding to the hype, British market innovator YASA announced that it's opening a state-of-the-art "super factory" to boost production beyond 25,000 axial flux e-machines a year. Those ultra-slim, potent pancake motors will find their way into a variety of world-class vehicles from the likes of Lamborghini and Ferrari.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Motor, Electric Motors, Electric Vehicles, Manufacturing

A new study has found that after just a few days of eating a high-fat diet, the gut’s defenses are broken down, and an asymptomatic inflammation is triggered that can develop into a long-term problem. Importantly, the effects were reversible.

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Category: Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & Mind

Tags: Diet, Inflammation, Gut health, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

It’s not often that an acclaimed masterpiece goes to auction without a reserve price, but this week’s fabled Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este will host an extraordinary auction on 25 May 2025 where a Talbot-Lago T150C Teardrop Coupé will face the hammer without a safety net.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Auction, Classic Motor Cars

An overland trailer builder with a unique background in airborne adventure, Mammoth Overland hit the off-road camper market sprinting a few years ago, releasing a slew of crazy-rugged camper trailers one after another. This time around, it's ditching the chassis and wheels and showing a hardcore off-road camper that leaps up atop the tow vehicle roof or rack. Still a concept at the moment, the all-new SKL is a highly impressive rooftop shelter that brings along its own solid-state battery bank and insulated aluminum walls.

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Category: Outdoors, Lifestyle

Tags: roof-top tent, RV, Camping, Off-road, Outdoors and Camping, Overland Expo, Off-grid

A new study has found a link between the bacteria responsible for gum disease and atrial fibrillation, a common heart rhythm disorder that affects millions of people worldwide. It emphasizes the importance of adopting a holistic approach to medicine.

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Category: Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & Mind

Tags: Oral hygiene, Oral bacteria, Atrial fibrillation, Heart, Hiroshima University

For years, the CRISPR-Cas9 genome technology has been reshaping genetic engineering, a precision tool to transform everything from agriculture to medicine. With its incredible efficiency, this molecular tool has been applied to plants, animals, and even bacteria. But until now, no one has used CRISPR-Cas9 on spiders.

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Category: Biology, Science

Tags: CRISPR, Spiders, Silk, Genetics, Materials

I've lost count of the number of things I use around the house that I've replaced, simply because I lost or broke a small piece of them. They were otherwise perfectly usable and could easily be kept around for years more if I could just find a spare part – like the handle for my manual food processor, the nose pads for my eyeglasses, and the trigger buttons on my game controller.

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Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Philips, Repair, Sustainability, 3D Printing

While we've seen a number of wearable underwater propulsion systems, they've typically been strapped to the user's arms or legs. The newly refreshed CudaJet is different, in that it's a true backpack-style underwater jetpack.

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Category: Marine, Transport

Tags: Underwater, Jetpack, 2025 Updates, Swimming, Diving

UK firm Bare Root Creation offers an interesting take on small living with this unnamed tiny house. The firm has transformed a dilapidated 1940s railway car into an affordable two-person model that would be well-suited for vacation use or as a guest house.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Lifestyle

Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, House, Home, Railways

Oukitel has launched what it's calling as the world's first industrial-grade modular rugged phone, the WP300. It's seriously tough, but also the most fun I've had with a smartphone in a long time.

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Category: Mobile Technology, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Rugged, Modular, Kickstarter, smartphones, Reviews

It was race against time as NASA engineers recently raced to fix a thruster problem aboard the vintage Voyager 1 deep space probe. It's hard enough to repair a craft at the edge of the solar system, but this time they faced a potentially deadly deadline.

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Category: Space, Science

Tags: NASA, Voyager

Unexpected mashups are in vogue in skyscraper design lately, with Mercedes and Bentley themed towers two notable examples. Now we have an even more left-field collaboration: English soccer team Chelsea Football Club has partnered with developer Damac Properties to create a soccer-inspired Dubai skyscraper project – complete with a rooftop pitch.

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Category: Architecture, Lifestyle

Tags: Building and Construction, Dubai, Skyscrapers, Soccer, Residential towers

Luxury electric boat maker Arc is breaking out the champagne for the launch of a new center console member of the family. The Arc Coast model is "purpose-built for hosting and entertaining" and comes in markedly cheaper than both the Sport and the One models before it.

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Category: Marine, Transport

Tags: Electric Boats, Cruise, Boating

Some people can’t get their bad cholesterol levels down, even if they take cholesterol-lowering meds. A new clinical trial using a combination of existing and not-yet-released cholesterol tablets lowered bad cholesterol by almost half in people at high risk of heart disease.

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

Tags: Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, Cholesterol, Statins, clinical trials, Cleveland Clinic

General Motors and LG Energy Solution have announced plans to put lithium manganese-rich (LMR) prismatic battery cells into production. The cells will be used in future full-sized trucks and SUVs as part of GM's Ultium platform.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Batteries, Battery Electric Vehicles, GM, General Motors, LG, Electric Vehicles

Researchers in Australia are working on a way to lower the cost of producing solar thermal energy by as much as 40% with the help of shatterproof rear-view mirrors originally designed for cars.

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Category: Energy, Technology

Tags: Solar Thermal, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy, University of South Australia, Australia, Plastics, Mirror

We usually associate friendship with human behavior, considering our exclusive domain. And that’s a fair assumption, as we don't often find animals boasting cooperative relationships beyond their blood relatives. The only complex "friend-like" relationship seen in vertebrates is known as cooperative breeding, in which two individuals assist in raising the young. Yet, for African starlings, the bonds they form go far beyond mere parenting duties.

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Category: Biology, Science

Tags: Animal science, Animals, Birds, Columbia University, Behavior

San Francisco mobility company Lit Motors has announced a new production plan for its self-balancing, fully-enclosed C-1 electric motorcycle. We got to see a functioning prototype for ourselves, back in 2021.

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Self-balancing, Electric Motorcycles, urban transport, 2025 Updates