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Genetic link between migraine and blood sugar levels confirmed

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Migraine and glucose-related traits such as fasting insulin and type 2 diabetes are widely understood to be common comorbid disorders, but now scientists have a concrete genetic link that could see a new area of therapy developed for the debilitating disorders. Continue Reading Category: Medical , Science Tags: Diabetes , Genome , Genetics , migraines , Insulin , gene therapy

SuperTourer composite truck camper looks to outmaneuver adventure vans

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Truck campers and camper vans are currently two of the hottest categories in US RVing. RVIA sales numbers show them as the only two RV segments to buck an otherwise industry-wide 2022 sales drop, with camper van sales increasing 23% year over year and truck campers enjoying a 16% increase. California's Enduro Campers is looking to capitalize on that popularity with a pop-top truck camper it's pitting against the off-road adventure camper van market. The SuperTourer camper uses ultralight composite construction to allow the base truck's true rugged, off-road-savvy nature to shine through, serving as a cozy shelter when the dust has cleared. Continue Reading Category: Outdoors , Lifestyle Tags: RV , Off-road , Camping , Off-grid , Truck

Sensitive electronic skin sends touches back and forth between wearers

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Last year we heard about an "electronic skin" developed at City University of Hong Kong, which delivers tactile sensations to wearers. The university has now gone one better, with an e-skin that both senses and reproduces users' touches. Continue Reading Category: Wearables , Technology Tags: Electronic skin , City University of Hong Kong , Haptics , Touch

Liquid-pumping heart replicas could lead to better cardiac treatments

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Before operating on someone, it would be very helpful if cardiac surgeons could examine a physical model of that specific individual's heart. Well, they should soon be able to do so – and the model will actually pump liquid, just like the patient's real heart pumps blood. Continue Reading Category: Medical , Science Tags: MIT , Harvard , 3D Printing , Heart

Ride1Up Turris treats ebike adventurers to a comfort-focused ride

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San Diego's Ride1Up has followed last month's dip into moto-inspired ebiking with a touring-capable Class 3 commuter called the Turris, a "starter ebike" designed with comfort in mind that sports lockout front suspension, fat tires, a gel saddle and ergo grips. Continue Reading Category: Bicycles , Transport Tags: ebikes , Pedal-assisted

Bacteria used to create bone-like 3D-printed composite material

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Calcium carbonate is an impressive material, in that it combines strength, light weight and porosity. Scientists have devised a new bacteria-based method of 3D-printing the substance, for use in applications such as bone repair and coral reef restoration. Continue Reading Category: 3D Printing , Technology Tags: EPFL , Bacteria , Bioprinting , Bones , Coral

Luxury home opens up to offer semi-outdoor living on Pacific Coast

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While it wouldn't work quite so well in harsher climes, the design of the Casa Mateo is a good fit for the relative warmth of Mexico's Pacific Coast. The residence promotes a pleasant semi-outdoor lifestyle with an open layout that blurs the boundary between inside and outside. Continue Reading Category: Architecture , Lifestyle Tags: Building and Construction , House , Home , Luxury

E. coli bacteria turned into nanowire factory for artificial nose

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The mighty snouts on dogs are famously known for their abilities to sniff out everything from disease to explosives, but science is quickly catching up with its own range of artificial noses. Now, in the most recent breakthrough in this exciting field, researchers have used genetically modified E. coli bacteria to spin electrically conductive nanowires capable of detecting the odor molecules created by kidney disease. What's more, they say their microbial manufacturing plant can be tuned to create other wires to pick up even more medical conditions. Continue Reading Category: Biology , Science Tags: Bacteria , Electronic Nose , kidney , Odor , Ammonia , University of Massachusetts , Sensor

Ambitious 170-km-long Saudi skyscraper city gets construction go ahead

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The idea of taking a population the size of New York City and putting it into a 170-km (105-mile)-long skyscraper in the Saudi Desert seems so ambitious that anyone could be forgiven for being skeptical. However, the project, named the Line, is indeed going ahead, and UK firm Atkins has been commissioned to help realize it. Continue Reading Category: Architecture , Lifestyle Tags: Building and Construction , Neom , Saudi Arabia , Skyscrapers

Meta-display concept could retire LCD panels in big-screen TVs

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A research team from the UK's Nottingham Trent University, the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales Canberra has developed a proof-of-concept display technology that could replace the LCD panels common to many of today's big-screen TVs. Continue Reading Category: Electronics , Science Tags: Nottingham Trent University , Australian National University , University of South Wales , Display , TV , LIDAR , VR

Brain circuit breakthrough paves way for opioid addiction treatments

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Synthetic opioids like fentanyl are now the main drivers of fatal overdoses in the US, yet current treatment of the addiction is haphazard and often prohibitive. But new research has uncovered a neurological mechanism that could lead to targeted and more effective medical responses. Continue Reading Category: Medical , Science Tags: Drugs , Addiction , Neuroscience

“Blue foods” can tackle global malnutrition, disease and climate change

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A new study has shown that foods that come from the ocean or freshwater, known as "blue foods," have the potential to address several important global issues, including nutritional deficits, disease, and climate change. Continue Reading Category: Health & Wellbeing , Lifestyle Tags: Ocean , Fish , Environment , Aquaculture , Cardiovascular , Nutrition , Climate Crisis

Wilson debuts an airless 3D-printed basketball in the NBA dunk contest

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A hole in your basketball is typically not a good thing, but Wilson's bizarre new Airless basketball prototype treats them as a feature. Indeed, it's probably more hole than ball, and yet it's said to bounce and respond like a regulation NBA rock. Continue Reading Category: Sports , Lifestyle Tags: basketball , 3D Printing , Crazy , Airless

Electronic bandage speeds wound healing and dissolves into body after use

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The days of ripping off a Band-Aid could soon be in the past, with scientists creating a new affordable, flexible electronic covering that not only speeds and wirelessly monitors healing but performs a disappearing act by being harmlessly absorbed into the body when its job is done. Continue Reading Category: Medical , Science Tags: Diabetes , Smart bandage , Wound , Infections , Dressings

Classroom robot helps keep kids with learning disabilities on track

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Students with learning disabilities (LD) struggle with particular skills like reading, writing, or mathematics and often require additional, individualized support to fill educational gaps. A team of researchers and experts has found that a cute little robot may help children with learning disabilities stay focused. Continue Reading Category: Robotics , Technology Tags: Learning , Autism , Robots , University of Waterloo , Disability , Education

Review: 2023 Volvo V60 Cross Country – a dying breed that impresses

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The second-gen Volvo V60 Cross Country arrived in 2020 and has remained one of the few station wagons still available in North America. The V60 combines crossover-like utility and off-pavement capability with solid all-weather performance and the car-like drive dynamics of a wagon. Continue Reading Category: Automotive , Transport Tags: Volvo , Station Wagon , Luxury , Reviews

Graft EO.12 electric dirtbike: A featherweight weapon for the trails

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Taiwan's Graft EV has announced a tough-looking electric dirt squirter that weighs little more than an ebike but makes 20 times as much power. The EO.12 looks like a Sur-Ron on steroids, and should be an absolute barrel of monkeys on a tight trail. Continue Reading Category: Motorcycles , Transport Tags: Electric Motorcycles , Dirtbikes

Software update and tiny chip could turn phones into full-on RFID readers

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RFID tags wirelessly provide a wealth of information on products or other items, but they can only be read by dedicated portable devices. That may soon change, however, as a tag-integrated chip and a software update could allow everyday smartphones to do the job. Continue Reading Category: Electronics , Science Tags: UC San Diego , RFID , smartphones , Wi-Fi , Bluetooth , LTE

Asthma drug activates healthy fat, no cold plunges needed

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Take a look at the health influencers clicking up followers on social media these days and you'll start to notice a trend involving some variation of taking cold showers, soaking in special tubs that make the water ice-cold, or diving into freezing bodies of water. While these self-styled health gurus tout the ability of cold-water bathing to do everything from reducing anxiety to helping with depression, actual scientists have discovered something it can do: convert unhealthy white fat cells into healthy brown fat. Now, researchers have figured out how to activate this process chemically with no need to brave frigid water. The discovery could lead to better treatments for diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Continue Reading Category: Health & Wellbeing , Lifestyle Tags: Brown fat , Fat cells , Diabetes , Cardiovascular , Heart Disease , Leiden University , Weight Loss

Inland Iglu lets you build an "igloo" out of garden-hose water

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The igloo is an ingenious form of winter shelter, but building one in the traditional fashion definitely takes some skill – and a lot of snow. That's where the Inland Iglu comes in, as it allows users to build an approximation of an igloo using their garden hose. Continue Reading Category: Outdoors , Lifestyle Tags: Kickstarter , Winter , Snow , Ice , Igloos

Simple and effective mercury sensor taps into the power of tapping

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Mercury can definitely be harmful in large amounts, and detecting its presence in foods or liquids typically requires lab-based tests. A new nanosensor, however, can quickly detect even tiny concentrations of the heavy metal onsite, simply by tapping on samples. Continue Reading Category: Science Tags: American Chemical Society , National Tsing Hua University , Mercury , Sensors , Food , Water

Eco-retreat is suspended above rolling vineyards in Portugal

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Portuguese architectural firm Carlos Castanheira has recently completed this striking eco-tourism destination, with suites that float above grape vines below. Located on a picturesque vineyard in Alijó, Portugal, Adega da Quinta da Faísca is an idyllic setting for tourists who want an authentic Portuguese experience that is eco-conscious and off the beaten track. Continue Reading Category: Architecture , Lifestyle Tags: Eco-lodge , Vineyard , Floating , Tiny Footprint

Amazon and Cochlear stream Smart TV audio directly to hearing implants

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In a world first, Amazon has partnered with Cochlear to make watching movies and shows more accessible for folks with hearing loss by streaming audio from a Fire TV device directly to a Cochlear hearing implant's sound processor. Continue Reading Category: Technology Tags: Amazon , Audio , Hearing Augmentation , Hearing Impaired , Streaming , Accessibility , Cochlear

James Webb spots "impossibly massive" galaxies in the distant universe

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The James Webb Space Telescope keeps challenging our best models of how the universe evolved, thanks to its incredible ability to see farther back in space and time than ever before. Now it’s discovered some “impossibly” gigantic galaxies that contain more mass than was thought to exist in the entire universe at that time. Continue Reading Category: Space , Science Tags: Astronomy , James Webb Space Telescope , JWST , Galaxy , Swinburne University of Technology , Universe

Expansive market hall lets folks stroll on its sculpted green top

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The recently completed Tainan Market is a typically imaginative take on the humble wholesale market by MVRDV. The building is defined by a sculpted undulating form that's envisioned as a series of rolling hills and allows visitors to walk up onto the green roof to socialize and enjoy the excellent views. Continue Reading Category: Architecture , Lifestyle Tags: Building and Construction , MVRDV , Green Roofs , Taiwan

Folding ebike powers pedal-assist or throttle-only urban adventures

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Pedal-assisted bikes are a great way to get around the city and beyond, with foldable models offering extra between-ride storage convenience. Budget-friendly e-mobility startup KBO Bike has launched a 60-mile e-folder with a half-twist throttle that comes in at under a thousand bucks. Continue Reading Category: Bicycles , Transport Tags: Foldable bike , ebikes , Pedal-assisted

Seabrick aims to give "seasteaders" a floating foundation to build on

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It's an odd little political movement, seasteading. An idea as old as the hills, it's been bubbling along in recent times with the Seasteading Institute as its main hub. But main hubs are hardly the idea; this is a movement for folk that feel the nation state has outlived its usefulness, who want to go as far off grid as it's possible to go. Continue Reading Category: Marine , Transport Tags: Floating , Seaweed , Building and Construction https://assets.newatlas.com/dims4/default/9656a0b/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1376x657+0+0/resize/1376x657!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnewatlas-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F19%2F45%2Fc0e86b1b4372843b894cc2905688%2Fscreenshot-2023-02-22-at-5.31.00%20pm.png

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