When you're hiking or camping in the woods, a carabiner's great to have on hand for making your gear more accessible and securing items together. This rugged new one from Hong Kong-based brand Pivot X goes several steps further by cramming in a bunch of useful tools into its sturdy frame – including a knife, a hex wrench, and even a little flashlight.

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Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors

Tags: Outdoors and Camping, Knife, EDC, Camping, Kickstarter

When one eye is deprived of vision early in life, it can lead to amblyopia, a condition more commonly known as lazy eye. This happens because a lack of input disrupts synapse formation in the brain's primary visual cortex, weakening vision in that eye.

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Category: Body and Mind

Tags: Eye, Vision, Brain

If you're after a free, simple boost for pushing through challenges, try swearing your way to your goals. A new study has uncovered the surprising psychological effect that cursing in the heat of the moment has – for the swearer, at least.

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Category: Society & Community, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind

Tags: Keele University, Swearing, Psychology, University of Alabama, mental health

According to a NASA study, Saturn's moon Titan may be the most fantastically large slushie of all time. Based on a reexamination of data from the Cassini probe collected in 2012, the moon's long-suspected global ocean may actually be a slurry of ice and rock.

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Category: Space, Science

Tags: Cassini, Saturn, Titan

A sharp, new twist on the classic moka pot, the Turbo Moka packs a unique design that deletes the line between function and flair. The series of gnarled ridges and channels that encircle its base are designed to increase surface area and better focus flames on efficiency-boosted heating. Long story short, your morning coffee will make it to your mug in half the time.

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Category: Around The Home, Lifestyle

Tags: Coffee, Product alternatives, Cookware, Kitchen, Cooking

The tons of discarded mussel shells generated by the seafood industry may be organic, but they're still very slow to biodegrade in landfills. They may soon find new life, however, sandblasting jeans in the textile industry.

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Category: Environment, Science

Tags: University of the Basque Country, MIT, Textile, Recycling, Waste

Wind turbines are essential to the global shift away from fossil fuels, but what happens when their blades reach the end of their service lifespan? Often, they end up in landfills, which obviously isn't ideal. With that problem in mind, an architect has come up with a clever idea: using the retired rotor blades as a building material.

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Category: Architecture, Technology

Tags: Building and Construction, Recycled, Wind turbine, Parking

Researchers have homed in on a single gut microbe that acts to prevent fat gain, even with a high-fat diet. The discovery adds to the booming science of finding ways to enlist the microbes that already live in our bodies to help us improve our health.

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Category: Diet & Nutrition, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind

Tags: Microbes, Gut Bacteria, Gut health, Microbiome, Obesity, Weight Loss, University of Utah

For anyone who ever wanted to own an insane track bike producing a whopping 220 horses courtesy of a dual-rotary 690cc engine, you're in luck. An exclusive Crighton CR700W – one of only 25 that were ever made – is on sale … and it could be yours!

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Wankel, Racing, Superbike

El Segundo, California-headquartered startup Radiant Nuclear is making big moves in its mission to bring its 1-MW microreactors to market.

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Category: Energy, Technology

Tags: microreactor, Reactors, Small Modular Nuclear Reactor, Nuclear, Nuclear Fission

The use of blood-flow restriction (BFR) cuffs that "hack" your physiology to speed up strength and muscle gains when you do light workouts has been growing in popularity in recent years. However, researchers have now discovered that they come with a significant downside – especially the older you get.

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Category: Aging Well, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind

Tags: Exercise, Blood Pressure, Murdoch University, Fitness, Walk, Balanced, Age-Related, Aging

If you’re a custom motorcycle builder and there’s one event where you fantasize about showcasing your build, it has to be Japan’s Yokohama Hot Rod Custom Show. It’s the crème de la crème of custom shows, being the place you want to be if you want to spot some of the most insane bike builds.

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Royal Enfield, Custom Bikes, Choppers, Japan, Twin-engine

RV designs like the retract-a-chassis Touchdown trailer from Dutch innovator Expandable are awe-inspiring in and of themselves. But they're even more so when built to task. One of Expandable's latest builds was created for the Shiver Offroad rally raid team, which will be competing for the Dakar crown in just a few weeks. The Shiver x Expandable 6x6 motorhome is an intensely rare combination of rally-supporting grit, off-grid autonomy and spacious luxury living.

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Category: RVs and Motorhomes, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

Tags: Transformable, RV, Modular, Motorhomes, Motorhome, Off-road, Off-grid, Travel, Dakar Rally

Snowmobiles are an effective means of moving across the snow and ice, but for many tasks they're … well, they're more of a vehicle than you need. The Snowdog is a simpler alternative, and it's now available in an electric model known as the SnowdogX.

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Category: Snowmobiles, Toys, Outdoors

Tags: Snowmobiles, Winter, Electric Vehicles

Sending a rover into space to explore other celestial bodies comes with a dizzying array of challenges, and one of the most complex is ensuring the vehicle doesn't break down out there.

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Category: Space, Science

Tags: Space exploration, Moon, Rover, Wheel, KAIST

Although they're constantly improving, robots aren't necessarily known for their gentle touch. A new robotic system from MIT and Stanford takes a unique stab at changing that, with a robot that uses vine-like tendrils to do its lifting.

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Category: Robotics, Technology

Tags: MIT, Stanford University, Robot

A team of Australian bodyboarding ratbags has managed to capture staggering footage of an extraordinary oceanic phenomenon: a place where four 12-ft (3.7-m) waves regularly converge into an oval dip, with explosive results.

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Category: Marine, Transport

Tags: Video, Wave, Ocean, Crazy

A bacterium from the intestines of Japanese tree frogs has "exhibited remarkably potent" tumor-killing abilities when administered intravenously, outperforming current standard therapies and paving the way for an entirely new approach to treating cancer.

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Category: Cancer, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind

Tags: Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Cancer, Tumor, Microbiome, Bacteria, Gut Bacteria, Cancer Tissue, Frogs

Ever fly Economy and felt like you were being tortured by the seat? It turns out that you're not being fussy, the seats really are horrible from an ergonomic point of view, which is why you're suffering. Oh, and that might be by design.

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Category: Aircraft, Transport

Tags: Ergonomic, Aircraft, Seat, xxShowcase

Hangzhou is the latest city in China to take traffic control to a new level, rolling out a new AI-powered robot police officer to direct vehicles and pedestrians at a major intersection and issue polite warnings to law-breakers.

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Category: AI and Humanoids, Technology

Tags: Robots, Police, Traffic, China, Artificial Intelligence, Humanoid