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Lamborghini has been playing around with electrification for nearly a decade now, ever since the slick 2014 Asterion concept. More recently, it went light hybrid with the limited-series supercapacitor-boosted Sián FKP 37 and Roadster. Now it's added a powerful plug-in hybrid to its regular production rotation, replacing the Aventador with the boundary-pushing Revuelto, a potent plug-in machine with piercing LED eyes and carbon composites all over. Sure, it still has the muscular V12, but it also uses a triple-motor hybrid drive to deliver over 1,000 hp, all-wheel drive with torque vectoring, and even all-electric city driving. Continue Reading Category: Automotive , Transport Tags: Lamborghini , Hybrid , Plug-in Hybrid , Hypercar , Supercar

Skateboarding can be a fun way of getting around town, but most boards have to be either carried by hand or strapped onto a backpack when not in use. The Koala Boards skateboard offers an easier alternative, as it magnetically snaps onto an accompanying pack. Continue Reading Category: Urban Transport , Transport Tags: Skateboard , Backpacks , Magnetic , Kickstarter

Three years ago we heard about Oceanbotics' SRV-8, a small yet highly capable underwater ROV (remotely operated vehicle). Well, it's now got a much burlier bigger sibling, in the form of the SRV-8X Optimus. Continue Reading Category: Marine , Transport Tags: Underwater drones , Remote Control

If a plant is stressed but no one hears it, does it still make a sound? While that's not quite the way the saying goes, researchers have discovered that the answer to the question is a resounding "yes." By monitoring tomato and tobacco plants, they discovered that plants which are under stress – from conditions such as being cut or from having a lack of water – emit a series of popping sounds. Even though these sounds are produced at human conversational levels, they are emitted at a frequency too high for our own ears to pick up, although that's likely not the case for insects and a range of other animals. Continue Reading Category: Science Tags: Plants , Agriculture , Tel Aviv University

Architect Michael Quirk designed this charmingly simple micro-cabin to demonstrate the efficacy of sustainable building practices. Named the Magnolia Eco-Cabin, it was built with locally sourced and recycled materials and runs off-the-grid with solar power. Continue Reading Category: Tiny Houses , Lifestyle Tags: Off-grid , Micro-House , Tiny Footprint , Cabins , sustainable design

Energy prices around the world have been rising alarmingly since 2021, with many of us now really starting to feel the pinch. Some have shared advice on how to heat the person rather than the home, but researchers at KTH are working on a building material that could help regulate indoor temperatures. Continue Reading Category: Science Tags: KTH Royal Institute of Technology , Thermal , Energy , Storage , Wood

Some people like to install a wooden seat on their toilet for its perceived warmth, but the Block goes even further. Described by Woodio as the world's first bio-material toilet, it ditches porcelain in favor of a modern flushable toilet that's made from composite wood. Continue Reading Category: Around The Home , Lifestyle Tags: Toilet , Wood , Bathroom

This is not the first time humanity has stared down the possibility of extinction due to its technological creations. But the threat of AI is very different from the nuclear weapons we've learned to live with. Nukes can't think. They can't lie, deceive or manipulate. They can't plan and execute. Somebody has to push the big red button. Continue Reading Category: Technology Tags: Artificial Intelligence , Extinction , GPT , Creative AI

With a revelation that threatens to ruin some childhood toys or a Jurassic Park rewatch, paleontologists have given one of the most famous dinosaurs a facelift, proposing that the Tyrannosauras did not sport ferocious, protruding chompers, but proportionally sized teeth concealed by a set of scaly, lizard-like lips. Continue Reading Category: Biology , Science Tags: University of Portsmouth , Dinosaurs , Paleontology , Tuatara

Heart failure is a global health problem commonly complicated by sleep apnea, a co-morbidity that further reduces a person’s lifespan. A promising new drug has been developed that could treat heart failure and sleep apnea by targeting the nervous activity that drives both. Continue Reading Category: Medical , Science Tags: Heart Failure , Apnea , Brain , Drug

Saturn is renowned for its rings, easily visible through an ordinary telescope. Now, using observations collected over 40 years, scientists have discovered that the planet’s iconic rings may not be as calm as they look, uncovering a never-before-seen interaction between the planet and its iconic rings. Continue Reading Category: Space , Science Tags: Saturn , Hubble , Voyager , Cassini , Ultraviolet , Atmosphere , NASA

Around 96 million American adults suffer from prediabetes – which is more than one in three – but for a vast majority it's undetected. Current diagnosis requires a clinical blood sugar test or an at-home glucometer device. With access and cost a huge factor in testing for a condition that can have no symptoms for years, it’s no surprise that 80% of sufferers aren’t diagnosed until it develops into more serious issues such as type 2 diabetes. Continue Reading Category: Medical , Science Tags: University of Washington , Diabetes , Smartphones , Glucose

Every year since 2014, students from the Skoda Vocational School have been designing their own concept cars, resulting in fun creations like pickup-SUVs and open-doored electric beach buggies. This year's crew has endeavored to turn the all-electric Skoda Enyaq iV into a multifunctional micro-camper and mobile office – not an easy ask from a compact crossover. The team is working around the small packaging by massaging in a camper extension atop the hatchback, opening up space for a bed and functional mobile work space. In so doing, they explore an intriguing alternative for digital nomads. Continue Reading Category: Automotive , Transport Tags: Skoda , mini-campervan , Concept Cars , electric-camper , Camping , digital nomad , Outdoors , Travel , Crossover

Human stem cells can differentiate into any human cell. But the process of dedifferentiation, essentially differentiation in reverse, is implicated in several diseases. Now researchers have uncovered a mechanism that is key to the process of stem cell dedifferentiation, opening the door to the development of new disease treatments. Continue Reading Category: Biology , Science Tags: Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPS) , Stem Cells , Genetics , Postech , University of California Santa Barbara

While there are already garments which cool or warm their wearer via circulating liquids, those garments tend to be equipped with cumbersome, noisy pumps. An experimental new system, on the other hand, uses interwoven tubular fibers as pumps. Continue Reading Category: Wearables , Technology Tags: EPFL , Smart Fabric , Textile , Pump

While car-top bike racks are quite popular, they do leave bikes vulnerable to collisions with overhanging obstacles such as garage doors. The KTOP Bike Rack addresses that problem by carrying the bicycle horizontally. Continue Reading Category: Bicycles , Transport Tags: Kickstarter , Bike Racks

Late last year, XGIMI revealed a new portable projector ahead of a showing at CES 2023, which featured the company's Intelligent Screen Adaptation tech. Now the MoGo 2 Pro Full HD model has gone up for pre-order, along with a 720p series sibling called the MoGo 2. Continue Reading Category: Home Entertainment , Technology Tags: XGIMI , HD , Portable , Projectors

EarthCruiser kicked off 2023 with an update on its electric overland camper program, and now it's back with a more specific all-electric project: an off-road camper based on the Hummer EV Pickup. The Oregon-based expedition vehicle company is partnering directly with GMC on the build, transforming the highly off-road-capable Hummer EV truck into an even more capable overland explorer. The "world's first all-electric supertruck" is about to become the world's first all-electric super-camper. Continue Reading Category: Automotive , Transport Tags: electric-camper , earthcruiser , GMC , Hummer , Electric truck , Electric Vehicles , Truck , Off-road , Off-grid , Camping , Outdoors

Though this recently completed model's larger-than-usual width of 10 ft (3 m) isn't a huge increase over the industry standard of 8.5 ft (2.6 m), every inch counts when it comes to tiny houses. Indeed, MitchCraft Tiny Homes made use of the extra space to add some luxurious small living comforts, including a dishwasher, bathtub, and a bedroom with enough headroom to stand upright – plus a separate loft area for the owner's cat. Continue Reading Category: Tiny Houses , Lifestyle Tags: Building and Construction , Tiny Footprint , Micro-House , House , Home

Sony has added another powerful option to its ZV line of easy-to-use compact vlogging cameras that began in 2020, with the new model bringing a full-frame image sensor, uncropped 4K video and access to more than 70 E-mount lenses. Continue Reading Category: Photography , Technology Tags: Sony , Video , 4K UHD , Full-frame , Cameras

With projects like the Line and Mukaab, it feels like everything in Saudi Arabia is larger than life lately. It probably shouldn't come as a surprise then that when the country's first state dinner was held to commemorate its founding, it was carried out in due pomp in a massive tent-like dome structure weighing over 300 tons that was created specifically for the occasion. Continue Reading Category: Architecture , Lifestyle Tags: Tent , Saudi Arabia , Building and Construction

A team of astronomers in the UK has made a massive discovery, using gravitational lensing to locate one of the biggest black holes to date. Continue Reading Category: Space , Science Tags: Supermassive black hole , Astronomy , Space exploration , Durham University

Australia is poised to undertake its first clinical trial using fecal transplantation to treat blood cancer patients who’ve developed serious complications following bone marrow transplantation. Continue Reading Category: Medical , Science Tags: Cancer , fecal transplant , The Immune System , QIMR Berghofer

ChatGPT showed the world that conversational AIs are ready for prime time, and capable of performing and chatting in character. It was only a matter of time before this kind of intelligence came to video game NPCs (non-player characters) – and yet I'm stunned – both at how quickly it's happened, and at how beautifully it works in this early incarnation. Continue Reading Category: Games , Technology Tags: Creative AI , Artificial Intelligence , Video Games , Gaming

After water, concrete is the world’s most consumed material and is the mainstay of construction everywhere, and concrete production’s impact on the environment is significant. Researchers have discovered that introducing an inexpensive, readily available ingredient into its production may make concrete a climate solution rather than a climate villain. Continue Reading Category: Materials , Science Tags: Concrete , Cement , Carbon Dioxide , Carbon Sequestration , Climate Crisis , MIT

If you’re on a hike, you’d be best steering well clear of the cocklebur weed. While the stalky green plants with curious-looking spiky burs don’t appear particularly deadly, this noxious plant is a killer. Continue Reading Category: Health & Wellbeing , Lifestyle Tags: toxic , Plants , cosmetics , Antioxidant , anti-aging

BAE Systems and the US Army have successfully test fired a Sub-Caliber Artillery Long-Range Projectile with Enhanced Lethality from a 155 mm XM907E2 cannon at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico with double the range of current precision guided munitions. Continue Reading Category: Military , Technology Tags: US Army , BAE Systems , Artillery

The squid’s ability to change its skin color in response to complex environmental information has fascinated scientists for decades. Now, Chinese researchers have taken inspiration from squids to create a new artificial skin that can not only withstand extreme cold but can also kill bacteria and fungi, opening the door to a range of potential uses. Continue Reading Category: Materials , Science Tags: Artificial , Skin , Microbes , Light , Dalian University of Technology

The US Army has chosen the enhanced vertical liftoff V-BAT UAS developed by Northrop Grumman and Shield AI to take part in the Army's Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (FTUAS) competition, Increment 2, to find a replacement for the venerable RQ-7B Shadow tactical drone. Continue Reading Category: Military , Technology Tags: Northrop Grumman , US Army , UAV , Aircraft , drones

Production of the cement used in concrete is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, which is why some people have tried replacing it with fly ash. A new technique makes that fly ash more eco-friendly itself, resulting in concrete which is both greener and stronger. Continue Reading Category: Environment , Science Tags: Rice University , Concrete , Cement

By keeping the design of its EV9 electric SUV quite close to that of the concept that previewed it, Kia showed the world it wasn't interested in launching another cookie-cutter e-crossover. Instead, it introduces a flagship e-SUV that will turn the heads of onlookers, and excite the senses of the man or woman behind the wheel. In its full reveal this week, Kia detailed that the EV9 will offer up to 336 miles (541 km) of range (WLTP) and include the new Highway Driving Pilot for conditional hands-off Level 3 driving on select roadways. Continue Reading Category: Automotive , Transport Tags: Kia , Electric Vehicles , SUV

Bariatric surgery, which includes gastric bypass and other ways of manipulating the digestive tract, has proven to be a successful way of treating obesity and, in some cases, even reversing diabetes. However, as with all surgeries, it comes with certain risks, has a lengthy recovery time, and is a costly procedure to undergo. Now, working with rodents, researchers have found a way to harness benefits similar to those from surgery, but in the form of an injection. They also found that it helped with metabolism, insulin production and, most surprisingly, with opioid cravings. Continue Reading Category: Medical , Science Tags: Diabetes , Obesity , Syracuse University , Weight Loss , Insulin

While there are now a great many collapsible bikes on the market, almost all of them get smaller by folding down. The Pop-cycle takes a different and reportedly better approach, by utilizing a slide-in/slide-out frame. Continue Reading Category: Bicycles , Transport Tags: Folding , Kickstarter , Cycling , Adjustable

Since we first got wind of Saildrone's ocean data-gathering autonomous USVs back in 2018, they've mapped miles of ocean floor, chased hurricanes (and even shared video from inside Hurricane Sam), and surveyed remote regions. Now the company is adding a new vessel to its fleet, to tackle near-shore mapping and maritime surveillance. Continue Reading Category: Marine , Transport Tags: Mapping , drones , Autonomous , Wind-powered , Solar Powered , Environment , Security

The next World Expo won't kick off until 2025, but initial architectural designs are already being revealed for it. This example is designed by Apropos Architects and will take the form of a top-heavy spiraling structure that pays homage to the Czech Republic's glassmaking tradition with an attractive glazed exterior. Continue Reading Category: Architecture , Lifestyle Tags: Building and Construction , cross-laminated timber , Expo , Pavilion , Glass , Japan

Last year, Duovox launched a successful Kickstarter for a compact full-color night-vision camera built around a custom Sony sensor. Now the startup has returned to the platform with a military-grade monocular rocking full color and IR night vision capabilities. Continue Reading Category: Photography , Technology Tags: Kickstarter , Night Vision , Cameras

OpenAI's ChatGPT is a slow, buggy, boring-looking chat bot that frequently makes things up and cuts off in the middle of answers. But it communicates as well or better than most humans, and writes code as well. It does both in a range of languages, showing some extraordinary insight and creativity at times. It learns at a pace the world has never seen before, and it can do an extraordinary (and rapidly expanding) range of tasks already, that nobody ever specifically taught it how to do. It can do these tasks in a fraction of the time a human would take, for next to no cost. Continue Reading Category: Technology Tags: Creative AI , GPT , Artificial Intelligence , jobs , Society

A new study has suggested that by protecting and restoring wildlife, we can enhance natural carbon capture mechanisms and reduce climate change. Continue Reading Category: Environment , Science Tags: Climate , Climate Crisis , Wildlife , Animals , Extinction , Yale

For some time, scientists have known that high blood pressure is somehow involved in cognitive decline leading to dementia. Backing the evidence are several studies that saw blood pressure and related diabetes medicines help slow the loss of brain function. Continue Reading Category: Medical , Science Tags: Dementia , Heart Disease , Blood Pressure , Alzheimer's Disease

Antimicrobial resistance, particularly resistance to antibiotics, is a worldwide problem. A new study has, for the first time, shown how the consumption of antibiotics by an entire population can affect an individual's health. Continue Reading Category: Health & Wellbeing , Lifestyle Tags: Microbiome , Antibiotic , Antibiotic-resistant bacteria , Genetics

One of the wildest camper concepts we've looked at is finally a reality. The Romotow caravan was originally revealed over a decade ago and had all the makings of being a one-and-done concept. It was created by an architecture and design firm, existed only as renderings at the time of introduction, and looked entirely like a flight of fancy. But in late 2018, word arose that the Romotow was actually headed for production. And now, another four years later, it's here. The production-ready version remains true to the original concept – an amenity-loaded mobile that's a cross between an expandable travel trailer and a tiny home with observatory and covered porch. Continue Reading Category: Outdoors , Lifestyle Tags: Romotow , Caravan , Trailer , trailers , RV , Camping , Outdoors