I appreciate how smartphones have now evolved to serve distinct audiences – whether your priorities lie in photography, portability, seamless multitasking, or exceptional battery endurance.
Category: Mobile Technology, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Gaming, smartphones, Liquid-cooled
Scientists have long wondered why Earth's overall makeup doesn't fully match the mix of materials found in ancient meteorites. One hypothesis has been that our proto-Earth (what the earliest stages of the Earth is referred to, before the Moon formed) gathered different kinds of material than it did after the giant impact that created the Moon.
Category: Science
A promising “two-in-one” experimental drug could tackle both type 2 diabetes and heart disease by slashing cholesterol and inflammation, potentially offering a powerful new way to protect the heart and improve metabolism.
Category: Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: Heart Disease, Cholesterol, Atherosclerosis, Type 2 diabetes, Monash University, Leiden University
In a breakthrough for diagnostics, scientists have created an easy and effective test that identifies a heart failure biomarker in saliva, opening the door to more rapid and accessible life-saving medical interventions for the disease.
Category: Heart Disease, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: Griffith University, Queensland University of Technology, Diagnostic tools, Biomarkers, Heart Failure, Heart Disease, Age-Related
There are many purposes that spots and stripes serve in nature, but how they form has been more of a mystery to scientists. Now, researchers have advanced their breakthrough theory – and it could help us design materials that can respond to the environment and change color on demand.
Tags: University of Colorado, Animal science, Computer, Simulations, Materials, Industrial design, Physics, Mathematics, Model
A dangerous type of bird flu virus (called H5N1) continues to circulate among dairy cows in the US. The virus targets the mammary gland's milk-secreting epithelial cells, causing painful infections in the udder. It also leads to large amounts of virus being released into the milk. This infected milk can expose other cows, pets, wild animals, and possibly humans to the virus, a potential threat beyond just the farm.
Category: Infectious Diseases, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: avian-influenza, Milk, Food technology, Cornell University
Toyota has unveiled the Tacoma H2-Overlander Concept at the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show in Las Vegas. The concept filters water, charges EVs, and is built on the TNGA-F truck platform.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Toyota, Fuel Cell, Tacoma, Off-road, Electric truck
If someone is experiencing homelessness, their smartphone often becomes their sole means of staying connected with loved ones and accessing critical services. Charging that phone can be challenging, however, which is why the solar-panel-equipped Makeshift Traveler backpack was created.
Category: Good Thinking, Technology
Tags: Backpacks, Solar Powered, Photovoltaic, Homelessness, Charity, Charging
The simple habit of getting in a daily walk has been shown to have numerous health benefits over the last few years. In a remarkable study, scientists found that taking just 5,000 steps a day can help slow Alzheimer’s disease-related decline. Sounds like an easy win, no?
Category: Fitness & Exercise, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: Walk, Alzheimer's disease, Exercise, Seniors, University of Melbourne, Mass General Brigham
After two decades under construction, Egypt has officially thrown open the doors to the largest archeological museum in the world, spanning 94 football fields (5.4 million sq ft or 500,000 sq m) and built to house some 100,000 exhibits through millennia, from prehistoric times going as far back as 700,000 BCE, to the Roman era (394 CE).
An Australian company is preparing to roll out a series of giant, rotating ski barrels designed to make the experience of carving endless fresh snow available to city folk without a long drive. We talk to Snowtunnel co-founder and CEO Scott Kessler.
Category: Ski and Snowboard, Toys, Outdoors
Tags: Ski, Skiing, ski gadgets, Snow, Sports, Interviews
A roof paint that can cool your home and pull fresh water straight out of the air? It's within reach, as scientists scale up production of a new kind of paint-like coating that shields roofing from the sun's rays and harvests dew from its surface.
Tags: University of Sydney, Paint, Sustainable, Cooling, Building Facades, Climate Crisis, Environmentally-friendly
Why have just one technological breakthrough when you can have two at the same time? The Royal Navy has installed for the first time a quantum clock into its XV Excalibur robotic submarine for extended precise underwater navigation.
Category: Military, Technology
Tags: Royal Navy, Submarine, Autonomous Vehicles, Quantum Physics
Starting cannabis use before the age of 15 may set the stage for future health struggles, according to a new study linking early cannabis use to higher odds of both mental and physical health problems in young adulthood.
Category: Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: Adolescents, Cannabis, mental health, Teens, McGill University
A finger is among the least practical places possible to strap a watch, and even watches themselves have become a fairly impractical redundancy in the smartphone age. And yet, we want the new Casio G-Shock Nano anyway. A lot. Following up on the 50th anniversary edition ring watch Casio introduced last year, the new Nano adds a beefier build with 200-m (660-ft) water resistance, shock resistance and a working miniaturized strap. This one is truly a G-Shock shrunken down to ring finger size.
Category: Wearables, Consumer Tech, Technology
It was late 2013 when I bought my first dash cam. I used to commute from Reno, Nevada, out to Salt Lake City, Utah and once or twice a week at night. It was 502 miles door to door, and I could do it in about 7.5 hours. Let me tell you, a lot of wild stuff happens on I-80 across the great barren expanses of Nevada in the middle of the night.
Category: Automotive, Transport
We're getting down to the business end of one of the best annual competitions, the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards. After nearly 10,000 entries, the finalists have been unveiled – and we've picked out some favorites.
Category: Photography, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Art, Photographers, Awards, Animals, Images
Blurring the line between biology and robotics, Chinese scientists are taking biomimicry to new depths with a small, low-energy bionic jellyfish that's so lifelike in form and movement it’s almost indistinguishable from the real thing.
Tags: drones, Biomimetic, Biomimicry, Artificial Intelligence, Surveillance, Underwater drones, jellyfish, Robots
This light-filled tiny house combines compact dimensions with a focus on daylight and home comforts. Featuring an extra-wide interior, it squeezes in a well-proportioned kitchen, a downstairs bedroom, and a bathroom with a bathtub.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
I've been a plane aficionado for as long as I can remember. I'm not exactly a plane "nut," but I think I might know a bit more than the average person who isn't a pilot. Yet somehow, I'd never heard of this story until I stumbled across it at random.
Tags: World Records, Cessna, xxShowcase, Flight, Museum
