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Your diabetes medication could be sabotaging your hard work

Tens of millions of people with type 2 diabetes might actually be undermining their efforts to improve their health, with researchers demonstrating that the commonly prescribed metformin blocks the cardiovascular benefits normally gained through exercise.

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Category: Diabetes, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind

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Interstellar-inspired TARS3D may be first such robot that both walks and rolls

If you want to build an actual HAL 9000, all you need is an LED, some carpentry skills, and any laptop accessing a talking AI. If you want to build your own R2D2, you’ll have a tougher job assembling a range of materials, motors, and electronics. But what if you wanted to make your own working version of TARS, that bizarre, blocky robot from Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar that looks like a stainless steel ATM with metal posts for legs sprouting from its shoulders?

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Category: Robotics, Technology

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Review: Studio Max 1 – studio cans, or just studio namesake?

So I've had these headphones for almost two weeks now. When I got them, I chucked it onto the charger until it said it was fully charged. Since then, I've worn them every single day, 95% of the time in Bluetooth mode connected to everything from my phone to my laptop to my projector. Sometimes for an hour, sometimes most of the day. And I haven't charged 'em since.

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Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

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360-degree motor pod thruster aims to revolutionize mass marine market

British electric drive specialist Helix builds some of the most power-dense electric motors in the world. Now it's working to springboard that compact, power-packed design into a marine drive ecosystem it believes will help change the face (or at least underbody) of everyday recreational and utility boating. The company's all-new Pod Cartridge brings the e-drive components necessary to make 360-degree pod drives a widely available solution capable of increasing efficiency and boosting maneuverability across a huge market of vessels.

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Category: Marine, Transport

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The wooden office treadmill: quiet, minimalistic, and fully manual

Sitting at a desk for at least eight hours a day is the reality for most remote workers today. But what if you could keep moving while working? That’s exactly the question that inspired Johannes Kettmann, a software developer from Berlin who knows firsthand the challenge of hitting those 10,000 steps per day while working a remote desk job. The result is the Office Walker, a minimalist walking pad designed for simplicity, silence, and long-lasting durability.

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Category: Fitness & Exercise, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind

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Natural molecule reverses memory loss seen in Alzheimer's disease

Boosting levels of a certain molecule that declines with age was found to restore memory and brain function in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) models – not just by improving energy metabolism, as previously thought, but by fixing RNA splicing errors that disrupt hundreds of genes crucial to neuron health.

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Category: Alzheimer's & Dementia, Brain Health, Body and Mind

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MIT's injectable brain chips could treat disease without surgery

A team of researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been refining and combining several advanced technologies over the past six years to create a revolutionary platform to treat a vast array of neurological diseases and mental illnesses. It could not only prove more effective than traditional methods, but also negate the need for complex procedures that carry their own set of risks.

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Category: Brain Health, Body and Mind

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90% of us aren’t getting this essential nutrient linked to anxiety

Scientists have identified a significant link between low levels of choline and the prevalence of anxiety disorders, suggesting that upping intake of this essential nutrient found in a range of foods – from eggs to seeds – could potentially improve symptoms of these debilitating conditions.

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

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Brain development in children linked to mother's PFAS chemical exposure

New research has made a striking link between a mother’s exposure to “forever chemicals” during pregnancy and the shape of her child’s brain at age five. The findings offer no conclusion as to whether these brain changes are positive or negative, but simply suggest the chemical exposure is likely making some kind of impact on neural development.

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Category: Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind

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Tiny camper cube turns 7-seat MPV into a stealthy "cocoon on wheels"

We've seen in-vehicle camping modules of all shapes and sizes over the years, but a new model from Renault might just take the cake as the sleekest, lowest profile camper cube out there. And it helps create one of the most versatile daily driver-cum-camper vans available. The module takes up minimal trunk space and ensures that all seven seats remain in place, whether camping for a week or completing the daily back-and-forth. Renault calls the resulting Trafic Escapade a "cocoon on wheels," and we'd say it's an impressive light camper van that might just outplay the Volkswagen California Beach on its home court.

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Category: Campervans, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

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