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A striking new study led by researchers from the University of Nebraska has found unusually high levels of lead and uranium in urine samples from teenagers who frequently use e-cigarettes. But several scientists, while careful to say not vaping is still the safest option, have sounded the alarm over the study's design. Continue Reading Category: Health & Wellbeing , Lifestyle Tags: University of Nebraska , Vaping , Smoking , Uranium , Metals

Although wooly mammoths are long gone, their recovered ivory lives on as a legal alternative to banned elephant ivory. Scientists can now use lasers to differentiate between the two materials, hopefully reducing the revenue stream for poachers. Continue Reading

Chinese automotive giant Chery spawned the Exeed luxury sports brand in 2017, and the Exeed E08 "concept MPV" shown at Auto China last week definitely does exceed expectations. Continue Reading Category: Automotive , Transport

Scientists have demonstrated a creative solution to plastic pollution, one of our most pressing environmental problems. Plastic was embedded with spores of plastic-eating bacteria that are activated when dumped in landfill, biodegrading 90% of the material in five months. Weirder still, this actually made the plastic tougher and stronger during use. Continue Reading Category: Environment , Science Tags: Bacteria , Plastic , Plastic waste , Environment , Environmental , Environmentally-friendly , UC San Diego , university-of-california-san-diego , Biodegradable

Dragon Tiny Homes' Element and Element 20 are very inexpensive options for downsizing, but aren't practical for more than one or two people. The firm's recent Avalon, however, has an increased but still relatively affordable price tag and squeezes an impressive three bedrooms into a compact frame, meaning it has space for a small family. Continue Reading Category: Tiny Houses , Lifestyle Tags: Building and Construction , Tiny Footprint , Micro-House , House , Home

Carbon-framed ebikes can cost a pretty penny, but the latest lightweight city model from Fiido currently comes in at well under $2k, has the stealthy look of a regular bike and boasts a low-maintenance Gates carbon belt drive. Continue Reading Category: Bicycles , Transport Tags: ebikes , Pedal-assisted , Carbon Fiber

It's almost time for the 2024 Summer Olympics to begin. 100 years after it last hosted the games, Paris is once again home to the iconic sporting event and just one large-scale permanent building has been created for the occasion: an aquatic sports center that's defined by an stunning curving concave wooden roof and boasts impressive sustainability features. Continue Reading Category: Architecture , Lifestyle Tags: Building and Construction , Timber , cross-laminated timber , Swimming , Olympics

Sanctuary AI is one of the world's leading humanoid robotics companies. Its Phoenix robot, now in its seventh generation, has dropped our jaws several times in the last few months alone, demonstrating a remarkable pace of learning and a fluidity and confidence of autonomous motion that shows just how human-like these machines are becoming. Continue Reading Category: Robotics , Technology Tags: Sanctuary AI , Interviews , Robotics , LLM (Large Language Model) , Artificial Intelligence , Consciousness , Humanoid

While we don't like to talk ill of the dead, new physiological analysis has found that the king of the dinosaurs was not so smart after all. It upends previous research that last year likened the brain and neuronal composition of the Tyrannosaurus rex to that of a primate. Continue Reading Category: Biology , Science Tags: Dinosaurs , Brain , Intelligence , University of Bristol , University of Southampton , University of Alberta

AF, or AFib, and its close medical cousin, atrial flutter, are associated with complications such as stroke, heart failure, and heart attack. While there’s an understandable focus on treating these conditions to prevent acute complications, less research has looked at what’s happening in the long term. Continue Reading Category: Medical , Science Tags: Heart , Heart Failure , University of Queensland

After more than a decade of delays and development, Boeing's Starliner crewed spacecraft is scheduled to launch. Given the history of the craft and the company's recent scandals, it's a nail-biter – so let's recap CST-100 Starliner. Continue Reading Category: Space , Science Tags: NASA , CST-100 , Boeing , International Space Station , Starliner

There’s a global shortage of blood supplies needed for life-saving transfusions due to factors that include an aging population with a higher demand for it and a lack of volunteer donors. However, even if there was an ample blood supply, it’s not as simple as just giving blood when it’s needed. Continue Reading Category: Medical , Science Tags: Blood , Enzyme , Gut Bacteria , Microbiome , Technical University of Denmark

A new type of printed circuit board (PCB) could drastically reduce the amount of electronic waste that ends up in landfills. Although most PCBs are difficult to recycle, such is not the case with this one, which partially turns into a reusable jelly when necessary. Continue Reading Category: Materials , Science Tags: University of Washington , Recyclable , Transient Electronics

On the road to delivering 100 miles of EV range in five minutes by the end of 2024, tech firm StoreDot has installed its extreme fast charging cells in a Polestar 5 prototype, and zapped the 77-kWh pack to 80% capacity in 10 minutes. Continue Reading Category: Automotive , Transport Tags: StoreDot , Polestar , Battery Technology , Electric Vehicles , EV Charging

Dubai already hosts the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, and it has now been revealed that it will soon boast bragging rights for the world's tallest residential skyscraper too. Currently under construction in the city's Marina district, the supertall will feature 122 floors and just 251 ultra-luxurious residences. Continue Reading Category: Architecture , Lifestyle Tags: Building and Construction , Residential towers , Skyscrapers , Dubai , World's Tallest

We've seen some impressive nature-inspired flying bots from the creative minds at Festo's Bionic Learning Network over the years, but the autonomous BionicBee is not only the smallest so far but also the first capable of swarming. Continue Reading Category: Robotics , Technology Tags: Festo , Biomimicry , Robots , Autonomous

The "Study Pavilion" has now been built at the Technical University Braunschweig in Germany, and the holistic modular design and construction of the reconfigurable building offers a fascinating glimpse into a potential future for scalable, reconfigurable buildings not just in places of higher learning – where campus visits may well become less frequent in the future – but in any community. Continue Reading Category: Architecture , Lifestyle Tags: Construction , Building and Construction , Architects , Modular , sustainable design

The six-foot-tall raptors in the Jurassic Park movies were terrifying enough, but now scientists have described a giant new raptor species whose legs alone were that tall. Continue Reading Category: Biology , Science Tags: Dinosaurs , University of Queensland , Fossils , Animals , Animal science

The British Army has rolled out the prototypes of its Challenger 3 main battle tank, which are undergoing their first live-fire tests in Germany. The upgraded tank not only has a deadlier gun, but can destroy incoming anti-tank rounds in flight. Continue Reading Category: Military , Technology Tags: British Army , Tanks , Warfare , Battlefield , Vehicle , Weapon

With the rise of COVID-19, the world learnt how being in close quarters with another person or people can increase the risk of infection with the virus. New research led by the University of Bristol in the UK has provided an answer to the question of how and why airborne respiratory viruses linger longer in enclosed spaces: carbon dioxide. Continue Reading Category: Science Tags: University of Bristol , Virus , Coronavirus (COVID-19) , Airborne , Carbon Dioxide

The original Skycamp from iKamper was a true innovator in a now-overcrowded rooftop tent (RTT) market. IKamper has built out the Skycamp brand over the years, adding smaller, lighter models and improving upon existing designs. It is now spinning off the Skycamp DLX sub-line. That reads Skycamp "Deluxe" to our eyes, and the upgraded models integrate creature comforts like LED lighting, cork flooring and inflatable mattresses, bringing along a premium price to match. Continue Reading Category: Outdoors , Lifestyle Tags: Camping , roof-top tent , Tent , ikamper , Glamping

Last year, Nitecore put a new emphasis on "flat light" with its EDC27. And while the compact torch isn't the only flashlight to take on a slim, remote control-like form, it does offer one of the best all-around light-to-slimness ratios we've seen on the market. After a little LED and electronics tinkering, Nitecore has bested itself with the EDC25, a slightly lighter flashlight that fires out the same 3,000 lumens but with more throw, intensity and overall runtime. Continue Reading Category: Outdoors , Lifestyle Tags: nitecore , Flashlights , Slim , Everyday Carry , Camping , Backpacking , Outdoors , Lightweight

Fish farming may be getting much more eco-friendly, courtesy of soybean processing wastewater. Microbes in the liquid have been used to produce proteins that could replace the fishmeal which is currently fed to farmed fish. Continue Reading Category: Environment , Science Tags: Nanyang Technological University , Aquaculture , Fish , Bacteria , Protein

The rapid progress of humanoid robot development is nothing short of astounding. Less than 12 months after introducing its 6th-gen general-purpose humanoid, Canada's Sanctuary AI has pulled back the curtains on the next iteration of Phoenix. Continue Reading Category: Robotics , Technology Tags: Humanoid , Sanctuary AI , Robots , Artificial Intelligence

Wind River Tiny Homes recently completed a new tiny house named the Pingora. The towable home comes with a relatively affordable price tag and features a compact interior with an "upside-down" layout that positions the bedroom downstairs and the living room upstairs. Continue Reading Category: Tiny Houses , Lifestyle Tags: Building and Construction , House , Home , Tiny Footprint , Micro-House

One of the most stunning concept cars the world has ever seen was shown for the first time at Auto Shanghai this week, when MG took the wraps the EXE181 concept – an aerodynamic electric hypercar with one of the best drag coefficients ever seen in any registerable, road-going vehicle. If it reaches production, it will become the world's most aerodynamically efficient automobile. Continue Reading Category: Automotive , Transport Tags: Goodwood Festival of Speed 2024 , MG , Auto China 2024

While it seems that another humanoid robot is being released every week, we've yet to see one move as quickly or with as much precision as the model just released by Chinese company, Astribot. We dare you to not be impressed. Continue Reading Category: Robotics , Technology Tags: Future Robot , Robotic , Robots , Humanoid , Artificial Intelligence

Many asteroids can be traced back to their parent body – the planet or moon they broke off from. But for the first time, scientists now claim to have traced the origins of an asteroid back to the specific crater it was birthed from. Continue Reading Category: Space , Science Tags: Asteroid , Moon , Lunar , Meteorite , Impact , University of Arizona

One of the biggest challenges researchers face is making injectable medicines into versions that can be taken orally. Oral medications usually fail because they can’t withstand the harsh environment of the gut, which leads to poor bioavailability - a drug’s ability to be absorbed and exert a therapeutic effect on the body. Continue Reading Category: Medical , Science Tags: RNA , gene therapy , King's College London

We’ve always said that if one of these came up at the right time, it would become the world’s first million dollar motorcycle. Well, it’s gonna happen next month and … this will be worth watching. Continue Reading Category: Motorcycles , Transport Tags: Ducati , Motorcycle , Auction

Adding rat stem cells to a mouse embryo resulted in a ‘hybrid brain’ in which the rat cells stepped in to restore function when the mouse’s sense of smell was removed, new research has shown. It’s the first time one animal’s cells have been used to rescue another’s senses, and it represents a step forward in regenerative medicine. Continue Reading Category: Science Tags: Brain , Neuroscience , Regenerative Medicine , Columbia University

Airbus Helicopters has flown its high-speed concept copter, which dashes 50% faster than other commercial copters, for the first time. The 249-mph (216-kt, 400-km/h) Racer demonstrator is not only fast, but consumes up to 25% less fuel. Continue Reading Category: Aircraft , Transport Tags: Helicopters , Airbus

If a giant prehistoric salmon isn't scary enough for you, how about one with warthog-like tusks? According to a new study, Oncorhynchus rastrosus possessed just such appendages – even though the fish likely fed on tiny plankton. Continue Reading Category: Biology , Science Tags: Fossils , Fish , Ecology

A portable music production studio previewed at NAMM 2022 is now crowdfunding on Kickstarter. Playtime Engineering's Blipblox myTracks is designed to give young creators all the tools they need to start making music. Continue Reading Category: Music , Technology Tags: Digital music , Kids , Instrument , Production , Kickstarter

One of the most exciting possibilities of 3D-printed architecture is that it could revolutionize affordable housing. Portugal's Havelar shows this may soon be within reach with its inaugural 3D-printed home, which took just 18 hours to print. Continue Reading Category: Architecture , Lifestyle Tags: 3D Printing , House , Home , Building and Construction

A robo-dog capable of throwing 30-ft flames from its back might seem the stuff of sci-fi nightmares, but such terrors were made real last year with the launch of the Thermonator from Ohio's Throwflame. Now the fire-breathing quadruped is available to buy for under $10k. Continue Reading Category: Robotics , Technology Tags: Fire , Quadruped , Robots

We all know that water evaporates when the temperature climbs, but researchers have just shown that there's another factor at play. The breakthrough could solve long-standing atmospheric mysteries and lead to future technological advances. Continue Reading Category: Physics , Science Tags: MIT , Laser , Water , Climate , Light

As the driest nonpolar desert in the world, the Atacama Desert in northern Chile is home to very few species of plants and animals. With rainfall often occurring only once a decade, the desert is so dry that NASA uses it as a stand-in for the Martian landscape. But what’s living beneath the parched surface? New research suggests it’s very small, abundant, and old, very old. Continue Reading Category: Science Tags: Bacteria , Micro-organisms , Mars

If you had piles of cash to spend on a custom-made packable bike, what kind would you get? Well, Malaysian horologist Ming Thein got a titanium number that can be taken apart to fit inside his own Rimowa suitcase – it's called the Firefly MiniVelo. Continue Reading Category: Bicycles , Transport Tags: Foldable bike , Titanium , Cycling

The Volkswagen California 6.1 was never the best-looking California in history, dragged down by its oversized double-stacked grille, but it did usher in its fair share of new innovations to the iconic nameplate. Now, Volkswagen is preparing it for retirement, starting production on a 1,500-model "Last Edition" that will see the 6.1 era out and welcome in the innovative new California T7, set to debut in just a few weeks. Continue Reading Category: Automotive , Transport Tags: Volkswagen , Campervan , Concept Vehicle , RV , Camping , Concept Cars , Van

Using DNA and proteins, scientists have created new synthetic cells that act like living cells. Blurring the line between artificial and living materials, these cells can be reprogrammed to perform multiple functions, opening the door to new synthetic biology tech that goes beyond nature’s abilities. Continue Reading Category: Biology , Science Tags: Cells , Artificial , University of North Carolina , DNA , peptide , Self-Assembly

Pothos plants are already known for being particularly good at purifying indoor air, so imagine if it were possible to make them 30 times better at doing so. Neoplants' Neo PX system is claimed to do just that, using special soil-dwelling bacteria. Continue Reading Category: Around The Home , Lifestyle Tags: Plants , Bacteria , Air Purification Systems

Hisense USA says it's looking to redefine the high-end entertainment experience with the launch of the PX3-Pro, a daytime usable, triple laser ultra-short-throw projector that can throw Dolby Vision movies at up to 150 inches. Continue Reading Category: Home Entertainment , Technology Tags: Hisense , Projectors , Laser TV , Cinema , 4K UHD , Streaming , Google TV , Harman Kardon