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Back at the IAA Transportation 2022 exhibition, German Tier 1 automotive supplier Mahle presented the Super Continuous Torque (SCT) motor, an electric machine capable of running continuously at 90% of its peak power. It was an impressive little workhorse, and this year, Mahle further refined it into a full drive unit, integrating two SCT motors and a cooling system into an all-electric truck axle...

A startup from China wants to sell you its upcoming gadget to track health markers from your entire family. Roughly the size of an iPhone, it sticks onto the inside of a toilet bowl and automatically scans urine to help detect diseases early, and provide prescription guidance.Continue ReadingCategory: AI in Health, Medical Innovations, Body & MindTags: Artificial Intelligence, Urinals, Tracking, Health, Data analysis

Trek is looking to help riders get around in premium style with a tasty commuter in low- and high-step variants. The FX+ 7 city ebike is reported "light enough to carry up stairs, powerful enough to fly up climbs, and equipped to carry whatever riders need."Continue ReadingCategory: Bicycles, TransportTags: Trek, ebikes, Pedal-assisted

A new soft harness system out of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) works like a pair of shorts to reduce the exertion needed to walk or jog by up to 18%. The system is easy to put on and take off and holds promise for helping anyone get more mobile.Continue ReadingCategory: Outdoors, LifestyleTags: Exoskeleton, Fitness, Mobility, wearable electronics, Aging, Soft Robotics, Technical University...

No, you can't eat the world's thinnest spaghetti. It's 200 times thinner than a human hair, which means you'd have a hard time spotting it on a plate and an even harder time cooking it.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical Innovations, Body & MindTags: Electrospinning, Nano, Thin, University College London

Mosquitoes do a superb job of spreading diseases like malaria – now researchers have shown it's possible to hijack these pests and distribute vaccines via mosquito bite. In human trials, these mozzie-borne vaccines proved around 90% effective.Continue ReadingCategory: Infectious Diseases, Illnesses and conditions, Body & MindTags: Malaria, Vaccines, Mosquito, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Disease

Countering the perception that plant-based diets are more expensive, a new study has found that a low-fat vegan lifestyle could slash 19% off your food-shopping bill. While this equates to around US$1.80 per day, that's more than $650 each year, compared to an average American diet that includes meat and dairy.Continue ReadingCategory: Diet & NutritionTags: Nutrition, Cost-of-living, Veganism, Diet, Income, Supermarkets, Food security

In a move to make military logistics simpler by eliminating the need to move fuel and batteries around battlefields, the US Army has awarded Raytheon a contract to develop a directed energy wireless power system that can beam energy to where it's needed.Continue ReadingCategory: Military, TechnologyTags: US Army, Raytheon, Wireless Power Transmission

Imagine how cool it would be if you could order a brand-new Wrangler with an integrated camper package straight from Jeep. Even something as simple as a hanging bed would get buyers driving off the lot in a no-nonsense adventure 4x4 ready to roam and disperse-camp anywhere vaguely accessible via four tires. Sadly, that type of factory 4x4 micro-camper is entirely lacking in the...

Plumbed drinking water in developed countries is pretty clean, but invisible contaminants can still lurk. One mysterious “phantom chemical” has haunted drinking water for decades, and now researchers have identified it – and found it’s completely new to science.Continue ReadingCategory: Environment, ScienceTags: Water, Drinking, Drink, Decontamination, University of Arkansas, Chemicals, Chemistry

Mountain bikes have a way of getting muddy, while their riders have a way of getting dirty and sweaty. The latest offering from outdoor gear company RinseKit was designed with these facts in mind, as it combines a tailgate pad and a shower.Continue ReadingCategory: Outdoors, LifestyleTags: Shower, Mountain Bikes, Cycling, Pickup

Though playing through a huge rig can be supremely satisfying, it's not really practical for jamming at home. Boss has birthed a new 10-W combo amp that packs tube-like Katana tones and effects into a battery-powered compact frame.Continue ReadingCategory: Music, Consumer Tech, TechnologyTags: BOSS, Roland, Guitar, Guitar Effects, Bass guitar, Amplifiers, Compact, Portable

Hyundai has just taken the wraps off its Ioniq 9, an electric crossover SUV aimed at families and camping enthusiasts. This entirely new addition to the company's EV lineup is set to launch in the US and other markets in 2025.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags: Electric Vehicles, Hyundai, ioniq

Adding another plus in the "nuts are good for you" column, new research shows that regular consumption of the superfood not only holds off death, but it also keeps the mind sharp and limits persistent disability. But age was a factor in the study.Continue ReadingCategory: Diet & NutritionTags: Nutrition, Diet, Dementia, Monash University

New York might be known as the city that never sleeps, but it turns out there's a lot less shuteye happening in urban areas across the globe. And it's not because of nightlife, but the artificial light emitted from buildings and infrastructure that is driving up levels of insomnia for even those in smaller metropolises.Continue ReadingCategory: SleepTags: Southern University of Science and Technology, Urban...

For the first time, researchers have discovered that the accumulation of aged and failing cells, called senescent cells, in one diseased organ can spread to multiple healthy organs, causing them to fail. The findings have opened the door to preventing multi-organ – or even age-related – disease.Continue ReadingCategory: Body & MindTags: Cellular senescence, Liver disease, Multi-organ failure, University of Edinburgh

Situated in Yangpo Village atop the Gaoligong Mountains, the Nujiang Grand Canyon Bookstore blends contemporary architecture with the surrounding natural and cultural landscape. With panoramic views of the Nujiang River and nearby peaks, the innovative project showcases an approach that connects modern design with local heritage.Continue ReadingCategory: Architecture, LifestyleTags: Library, Concrete, China

Royal Enfield knows a thing or two about creating retro classics but a drag bike? That’s a stretch. Oregon-based ICON Motosports has created a custom café racer based on the Shotgun 650 that’ll turn heads again and again.Continue ReadingCategory: Motorcycles, TransportTags: Custom Bikes, Royal Enfield, EICMA 2024

Although autonomous, uncrewed ships are now being trialled, those vessels still need human workers to moor them when they come into port. That could soon change, however, thanks to a new automated suction-based mooring system.Continue ReadingCategory: Marine, TransportTags: Autonomous, Ships

Australian food company Vow is working on lab-grown foie gras that not only takes the cruelty out of producing it, but also aims to make a distinctively tastier version of the delicacy.Continue ReadingCategory: TechnologyTags: Lab grown meat, Food

The incredible rate of construction in Saudi Arabia shows no sign of slowing with yet another ambitious project announced. This time it's a massive sports stadium, which will be one of the world's largest once complete, and is designed to resemble a seed germinating in the desert.Continue ReadingCategory: Architecture, LifestyleTags: Building and Construction, Saudi Arabia, Stadium

Prepare to start seeing unprecedented shapes and designs in the motocross world. Spanish company Stark Future is taking titanium 3D printing out of the prototyping lab, and into mass production of its insane electric dirtbikes.Continue ReadingCategory: Motorcycles, TransportTags: 3-D+Printing, Electric Motorcycles, Dirtbikes, Manufacturing Technologies, Titanium

The sixth flight of SpaceX's Starship went off today without a second capture landing of the Super Heavy first stage, but it did have a dramatic daylight powered soft landing of the Starship second stage in the Indian Ocean. And a banana.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: Starship, SpaceX, Launch

Milwaukee camper van innovator Orion Motors takes the largest Ford Transit cargo van out there and turns it into a camper utility van so versatile, you can use it 365 days a year.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags: Campervan, Ford, RV, Cargo, Van, Outdoors and Camping, Camping

It's ironic that even when surrounded by water, sailors who are lost at sea can still die of thirst. The QuenchSea 3.0 portable desalinator is designed to keep that from happening, and it requires no power source other than its user's arm muscles.Continue ReadingCategory: Outdoors, LifestyleTags: Kickstarter, Desalination, Water, Osmosis

When most of us think of freshly poured concrete, we picture a material that should be left to dry as smooth as possible. A new wheeled robot drives right over the stuff, however, gouging its surface to make structures stronger yet also cheaper to build.Continue ReadingCategory: Robotics, TechnologyTags: Concrete, Construction, Autonomous

Phoenix-based mobility outfit Lectric has a reputation for quality builds at affordable prices. Such is the case for an updated version of the XPeak all-terrain adventure bike, which keeps the same price tag as the original but can now be optioned with a longer-range battery.Continue ReadingCategory: Bicycles, TransportTags: ebikes, Pedal-assisted, Off-road

China is now home to the world's most powerful centrifuge capable of creating artificial gravity. This facility will enable a wide range of experiments to help make sense of scientific phenomena, simulate geological events, and test new materials.Continue ReadingCategory: ScienceTags: Gravity, China, Testing, World's Most Powerful

Back in 2022, Eco Wave Energy announced plans to relocate its wave energy array from Gibraltar to the Port of Los Angeles. Now the company has secured final approval for what will become the first onshore wave energy project in the US.Continue ReadingCategory: Energy, TechnologyTags: Wave Power, Renewable Energy, Clean Energy

At a test track in Germany, Bugatti has just recorded an open-top speed much quicker than the iconic Veyron managed with a roof on when it stunned the world in 2010. Next stop, says Mate Rimac, is 500 km/h (311 mph) and the outright speed crown.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags: Bugatti, Hypercar, Supercar, World's Fastest, World Records, Convertible

Chilean architectural studio Tololo Ugarte has created a luxurious vaulted tiny house that blurs the lines between its tasteful interior and the surrounding landscape. Dubbed Catalejo, which means Spyglass, the project leverages the unique attributes of its site to inform the design.Continue ReadingCategory: Tiny Houses, LifestyleTags: Tiny Footprint, Cabins, Off-grid, Home

The rebirth of commercial supersonic flight has kind of, sort of come to pass as Dawn Aerospace announces that its 16-ft (4.8-m) Mk-II Aurora rocket-powered aircraft broke the sound barrier with a speed of Mach 1.1 on November 12, 2024.Continue ReadingCategory: Aircraft, TransportTags: Supersonic, Dawn Aerospace

A peptide hormone produced in the brain that triggers physiological reproductive responses has been 'hacked' by scientists to form an effective, safe and non-invasive way to treat chronic gut pain. It's being deemed an entirely new class of painkiller.Continue ReadingCategory: Chronic Pain, Illnesses and conditions, Body & MindTags: University of Queensland, Irritable bowel syndrome, irritable-bowel-disease, Chronic, Pain, Drugs, Drug delivery, Analog, molecular biology, Gastrointestinal

On November 11, MAPHEUS-15 became the 600th suborbital rocket launched from Sweden’s Esrange Space Center. While not wanting to downplay this impressive milestone, many are keener to see whether its payload paid off, scientifically speaking.Continue ReadingCategory: Body & MindTags: Cells, Health, Microgravity, La Trobe University

Pushing heavy loads in a wheelbarrow may be easier than carrying them, but it can certainly still be a plenty difficult task. The eBarrow Kit was designed with that fact in mind, as it electrifies existing wheelbarrows.Continue ReadingCategory: Around The Home, LifestyleTags: Hub Motors, Electric, Urban Gardening

The icy fingers of winter are starting to grip folks in the Northern Hemisphere. Generally this might mean packing away the bike until things warm up a little. But the latest electric ride from Giant has been designed for "those who embrace the thrill of winter riding."Continue ReadingCategory: Bicycles, TransportTags: ebikes, Pedal-assisted, Off-road

With its length of 4.8 m (15 ft) and its simple, space-saving layout, the 4800L Compact tiny house could be a good fit for those looking for a weekender or guest house. It's also relatively affordable and starts at just AUD$48,000 (roughly US$31,000).Continue ReadingCategory: Tiny Houses, LifestyleTags: Building and Construction, Micro-House, House, Home, Tiny Footprint

It’s not just the Mulders of the world watching the skies anymore – the Scullys are getting involved. The US Department of Defense (DoD) has released its latest report on UFOs, with some intriguing stats and stories.Continue ReadingCategory: ScienceTags: Aerial, Department of Defense, Extraterrestrial, Aircraft, Flying Saucer, drones

We've been following the development of Australia's AMSL Aero's longe-range, hydrogen-powered Vertiia eVTOL for some time and now the box-winged tilt-rotor aircraft has completed its first free flight after over a year of 50 tethered tests.Continue ReadingCategory: Aircraft, TransportTags: eVTOL, Flight Tests, Hydrogen Aviation

Chinese company JiYue has unveiled a stonking high-performance, long-range, intelligent supercar capable of doing 0-60 mph (0-96 km/h) in 1.9 seconds, 400 miles (644 km) to a charge, and featuring a unibody carbon frame.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags: China, Supercar, Supercars, Artificial Intelligence, Self driving cars, Electric Vehicles

When disaster strikes, drones and robots can be sent into danger zones to scout for survivors. The RoBoa from a student team at ETH Zurich is designed to snake its way through debris that would stop other solutions in their tracks.Continue ReadingCategory: Robotics, TechnologyTags: Soft Robotics, ETH Zurich, Rescue, Monitoring, Mapping, Disasters, Biomimicry

LG Display has built on the technology powering its flexible screen prototype that stretched by 20% in 2022, announcing what's claimed to be the world's first stretchable display capable of expanding up to 50%.Continue ReadingCategory: TechnologyTags: LG Display, Display, Stretchable Electronics, Micro LED, Foldable, Flexible Electronics, Screens

The unassuming yet popular white button mushroom has cancer-fighting abilities, according to the results of a human clinical trial on the use of food as medicine. Not only does it slow tumor growth, but it also allows cancer-fighting immune cells to do their job effectively.Continue ReadingCategory: Cancer, Illnesses and conditions, Body & MindTags: Mushrooms, Prostate cancer, Treatment, City of Hope

It's nearly 15 years since the first air fryer as we know it hit the market, but food companies and consumers are still catching up when it comes to food safety and these game-changing kitchen gadgets. Experts say better instructions and user awareness will lower the risk of food-related illness.Continue ReadingCategory: Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & MindTags: Food technology, Food, Cooking, Bacteria, Kitchen,...

Many of us will have had a tooth pulled in the dentist chair, either under local or general anesthetic, and even with modern medicine, it's not a pleasant experience. So spare a thought for the people who, for millennia, voluntarily had good, healthy front teeth hammered or pulled out – a practice that continued from 4800 BP to the early 1900s. And it was...

With its length of 45 ft (10.3 m), the Cumberland is about as large as a tiny house can get before we need to start thinking about calling it something else. Arranged on one level, the dwelling boasts a spacious open interior with a home office, plus a sizable porch too.Continue ReadingCategory: Tiny Houses, LifestyleTags: Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home, Building and Construction

We've seen plenty of futuristic-looking concept motorcycles over the years – the BMW Motorrad Vision Next 100 and Yamaha Motoroid prototype, to name just two. The Rocket One fits comfortably amongst such offerings, with a massive LED headlamp that looks like a jet engine inlet or the Argo’s wave motion gun from Star Blazers.Continue ReadingCategory: Motorcycles, TransportTags: Electric Motorcycles, Concept Motorcycles, Triumph, HUD, Augmented...

Manipulating important non-neuronal brain cells called astrocytes using light prevented fear memories from being retained long-term, according to new research. The findings add to growing evidence about astrocytes’ role in memory and open the door to potential treatments for conditions like PTSD, which is characterized by abnormal fear memory.Continue ReadingCategory: Learning & Memory, Brain Health, Body & MindTags: Memory, Fear, Optogenetics, Astrocyte, Tohoku University

Following a successful Indiegogo for a long-range folding ebike in January, Chinese e-mobility outfit Mihogo has returned to the platform with a lightweight commuter. The Air's carbon fiber frame is jam-packed with batteries for up to 128 miles per charge.Continue ReadingCategory: Bicycles, TransportTags: ebikes, Pedal-assisted, Indiegogo

A new study has found a link between the rollout of high-speed internet services and a rise in obesity rates in the country. The researchers who conducted the study attribute the increase to the effect of high-speed internet access on physical activity and eating habits.Continue ReadingCategory: Obesity, Illnesses and conditions, Body & MindTags: High-speed, Internet, Obesity, Exercise, Monash University