One of the first events to signal the collapse of Napoleon's reign was his crushing defeat after an invasion of Russia in 1812. Researchers have long thought that the disease typhus played a role, but modern DNA analysis paints a different picture.
Tags: Napoleon, Archeology, DNA, Infections, Disease, Microbes, Université de Paris Cite
Godzilla is in the building. And the building is Fender Flagship Tokyo, the US brand’s temple to the guitar that opened in 2023 in the heart of Harajuku, and is on track to welcome its millionth visitor early next year.
Category: Music, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Guitar, Fender, Fender Stratocaster, Japan, Monster
The Caladenia tiny house proves that downsizing doesn't need to mean giving up all your belongings. Featuring a well-designed interior with ample storage that's suitable for up to two people, it also comes with lots of options, including full off-grid functionality.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, House, Home, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House
For years, millions of people have sworn that gluten makes them ill – even if they've returned negative results when tested for coeliac disease. Now, researchers have found that it's far more complicated, and gluten itself may not be the culprit.
Category: Diet & Nutrition, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: gluten, University of Melbourne, Maastricht University, University of Sheffield, Diet, Irritable bowel syndrome, Allergies, Wheat
China showed off its ambitions for space in the 21st century as its first reusable heavy booster, the ZhuQue-3 (ZQ-3) Y1 from the Landspace company, conducted its first static firing at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.
Tags: China, Launch Vehicles, Falcon
Imagine slowly losing the center of your vision, like a camera lens fading to fog. That's what happens with geographic atrophy, a severe form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). It's the world's leading cause of permanent blindness, affecting more than five million people.
Category: Medical Devices, Medical Innovations, Body and Mind
Tags: Blindness, Vision, Stanford University, Eye surgery, Eye
Getting a COVID shot might do more than protect against the virus – it could also help cancer patients live longer. A new study found that mRNA vaccines were linked to a doubling in three-year survival for those on immunotherapy.
Category: Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: Cancer, mRNA vaccines, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Immunotherapy, University of Texas, University of Florida
New research challenges fears about stopping long-term prescription opioid use, uncovering no associated rise in suicide risk and a sharp drop in overdose death. The findings offer reassurance for clinicians and patients managing chronic pain.
Category: Mental Health, Brain Health, Body and Mind
Tags: Opioids, Chronic pain, Suicide, mental health, National Drug and Alcohol Research Center (NDARC), University of New South Wales
The axial flux electric motor pioneers at YASA are at it again. Just three months after sending tremors through the electric motor market with an unofficial world-record power density that absolutely trounced the nearest competitor, it's bested its own staggering 42-kW/kg mark. YASA's latest slimline automotive-grade e-machine is both lighter in weight and significantly more powerful than the last iteration, rewriting the power-density charts all over again.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Motor, Electric Motors, yasa, World Records, worlds-most-power-dense
The trouble with trying to switch to a smaller phone that's more comfortable to hold and less distracting to use is, you don't have a lot of compelling options. There are dumbphones that don't do a lot of essential things like display directions, minimalist phones that cost a pretty penny while offering limited hardware, and just a handful of truly compact smartphones that make substantial compromises on performance or battery life.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) is nearing completion on a new record-breaking crossing in Taiwan. Billed by the studio as the world's longest single-mast asymmetric cable-stayed bridge, its eye-catching form is also designed to "minimize impeding sunset views from popular viewpoints along the river."
Category: Architecture, Technology
Tags: Building and Construction, Zaha Hadid, Bridge, Taiwan
A 13-year-old boy was admitted to hospital after four days of abdominal pain – when he then admitted to doctors that he'd swallowed 80-100 small, high-powered magnets a week earlier. X-rays revealed that the magnets had joined together in four long lines in separate parts of his bowel, in one of the most bizarre cases of foreign object ingestion staff had seen.
Category: Society & Community, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
In what could be an industry shifting breakthrough, researchers have created a screen about the size of a human pupil with a resolution that breaks through the limits of pixels. The invention could radically change virtual reality and other applications.
Tags: Screens, Screen, Virtual Reality, High-resolution, Pixel, Eye, Uppsala University, Chalmers University, University of Gothenburg, E-Paper
Rivian spin-off Also, which is focused on building simple and accessible vehicles, is attempting the seemingly impossible: taking on just about every ebike out there with one fell swoop. That swoop is the TM-B.
It seems like autonomous aircraft makers are indulging in a bit of oneupsmanship as Shield AI rolls out its X-BAT VTOL Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) that combines the ability to land and take off without a runway with long-range endurance.
Category: Military, Technology
In a world-first breakthrough, scientists have discovered how a sugary “cloak” helps bowel cancer hide from the immune system, and how stripping it away could turn the body’s anti-cancer defenses back on.
Category: Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: Cancer, Colorectal cancer, Immunotherapy, The Immune System, University of Galway
For 6 hours and 31 minutes, Oscar Delaite pedaled his Rose Bikes Sneak without the front wheel touching the ground, obliterating the previous longest-bicycle-wheelie record of 50.7 miles (81.59 km), held by USA's Richard Flanagan.
Tags: World Records, Stunts, Bicycle, Cycling
Toby Roberts is a Portland-based restauranteur who previously invented a special type of Thai-style charcoal and a grill that uses it, both of which are now utilized in Michelin-starred restaurants. Well, he's now created a mini version of the grill for home use, and it comes with the charcoal.
Tags: Kickstarter, Cooking, Barbecue, Grilling
For 50 years, Australian overland pioneer ARB has offered essentials that help make unnavigable terrain not only navigable but temporarily habitable - from air-locking differentials and suspension kits to tents and fridges. Despite the company's long, rich history in the industry, it didn't get into the RV side of things until just two years ago. It made up for lost time in a hurry, however, when it launched the Earth Camper – a small, expandable pod that brings together elements of ultra-rugged squaredrop camping, expandable hard-floor trailering and fortified exo-frame constructing. Now that hardwearing hybrid-walled base camp is on its way to the US market.
Category: Camping Trailers, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: Off-road, ARB, Off-grid, RV, Caravan, Trailer, trailers, Camping, Outdoors and Camping
Ysmart, which specializes in compact, durable EDC gear, has launched a tiny flashlight that's perfect for people who want to have one within arm's reach at all times. The new thumb-drive-sized MQ5X turns on as soon as you snap it off its magnetic keychain base, and charges wirelessly on a custom dock.
Category: Outdoors
Tags: EDC, Flashlights, Kickstarter
