When breathing becomes a daily battle, even the simplest acts can feel exhausting. Now, a new study has found the key to easing chronic breathlessness caused by lung disease: singing.
Category: Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: Lung disease, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), Inflammation, Singing, Monash University
One of the simplest truck camper designs we've seen, the Grumpy Bear Arctos Sport arrives looking like a toadstool chopped in half, or a teardrop trailer body on a pedestal. However you look at it, that simple form allows the camper to fit neatly in the pickup bed, without an over-cab alcove hanging off, giving buyers a transformable interior meant for sleeping, eating and relaxing through the evenings. It even has a standing height interior and a 4-season construction meant to stand up to Old Man Winter.
Category: Pickup Campers, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: RV, Pickup, Truck, Camping, Outdoors and Camping
Following the launch of a compact low-speed ambulance in July, California's GEM has unveiled an electric utility truck that's designed to haul gear through the neighborhood before heading to wilder work sites.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Electric Vehicles, Truck, utv, Compact, Off-road
A new class of weight-loss drug has shown it can significantly boost weight loss when paired with GLP-1 therapy – without adding side effects – in a mid-stage clinical trial, pointing to a powerful new combination approach to tackling obesity.
Category: Obesity, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: Obesity, Weight Loss, GLP-1 receptor agonists, clinical trials
Living up to its name, University of Washington spin-off company ZAP Energy's Century system is developing fusion power technology by blasting plasma with super-lightning-like pulses 12 times per minute, without relying on superconducting magnets or laser beams.
Category: Energy, Technology
Tags: Nuclear Fusion, Lightning
A first-of-its-kind study has found that recognizing – and actually using – personal strengths is linked with better wellbeing and fewer mental-health symptoms in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It also mapped which “ADHD strengths” are more commonly self-endorsed, adding nuance to a field that’s often framed around deficits.
Category: ADHD & Autism, Brain Health, Body and Mind
Tags: University of Bath, ADHD, Developmental conditions, Age-Related, mental health, Well-being, Chronic illness
You don’t become one of the world’s top motorcycle component manufacturers for nothing. For the past five years, Brembo has been working to improve the environmental impact of its manufacturing processes – and now, it's claiming a breakthrough.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Motorcycle, Braking, Recycled, Aluminum, Environmentally-friendly, Green+Technology
A large study has found that calcium supplements, long recommended for bone health, particularly in older women, don’t increase dementia risk, offering reassurance for the millions who take them to protect against osteoporosis.
Category: Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: Vitamins and minerals, Dementia, Dietary supplements, Alzheimer's disease, Edith Cowan University, Curtin University, University of Western Australia
The Japan Mobility Show – which brings together major automakers to show off their upcoming vehicles in Tokyo each year – is still a couple of weeks away. Thankfully, we don't have to wait until then to see what Yamaha's got cooking, because it's totally fire.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Yamaha, Concept Motorcycles, Three-Wheeler, Electric Motorcycles
Friendships, community ties and family bonds may apply the brakes to natural cell aging, providing a simple way to invest in health in older age. In a massive new study, scientists have found that social connections are tied to slower biological aging and less chronic inflammation.
Category: Aging Well, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: Cornell University, anti-aging, Biological age, Age-Related, Chronic illness, Inflammation, Epigenetics
Once confined to Latin America, Chagas disease – a potentially deadly parasitic infection that is spread in a gross way – is now endemic in the United States, threatening both humans and their pets in what experts are calling a silent public health crisis.
Category: Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: Pets, Insect, Vector-borne disease, Veterinary Medicine, Public health
I know it's only a concept, but there are a lot of clever ideas crammed into the new Dacia Hipster electric vehicle (EV) that have me wishing I could run out and buy one right away. There's a lot more to this Kei car-inspired mockup than components built to a cost.
Category: Automotive, Transport
By breaking the rules of atomic order, scientists have created MXenes unlike any seen before. Nine metals now share a single atom-thin sheet, their once-neat layers dissolved into a patchwork of possibility. The result could redefine how we design materials for the harshest places on Earth and beyond.
Tags: new material
Three years ago, a Chinese startup called Outask had a vision for a more versatile lantern, one with an upper body shell that splits out into a tripod with magnetic mounting – pretty cool, but ultimately not cool enough for the folks who built it. It's now back with a V2.0, and the light has advanced into something even more versatile that will see many different uses at home, on the road and in the field. Small enough to slide into a jacket pocket, the new TD2 triples light output inside a versatile multi-axis chassis that makes it a pocket flashlight, table lamp, magnetic work light, area light and more.
Tags: Flashlights, EDC, Lamp, Folding, Foldable, Magnetic, Lighting, Light, Kickstarter, Camping, Outdoors and Camping
GoPro makes some pretty fancy cameras aimed at pro-level users, and the new Lit Hero … well, it ain't one of them. It does deliver the basic goods, however, and it is the first-ever Hero to feature its own onboard fill light.
Category: Photography, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: GoPro, Actioncam, Video Cameras
Some tools are made to be admired and fondled as much as they're made to actually be used. Such certainly seems to be the case with the sandblasted titanium GripNGo 2.0 ratcheting bit driver, which is currently the subject of a Kickstarter campaign.
Category: Around The Home, Lifestyle
Tags: Tools, Titanium, Kickstarter, Retro
A couple of year's back, audio gear brand Creative was the first company to pop solid-state speaker technology from xMEMS in a pair of wireless earphones. Now the company has added sound personalization to the mix.
Category: Wearables, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Creative, Solid-state, Speakers, Wireless, Bluetooth, Earphones
Knee and other joint-replacement procedures can be a major improvement to a patient's quality of life – unless infection sets in. A new method of injecting implants with liquid metal aims to take this harmful side effect out of the equation.
Category: Body and Mind
Tags: Flinders University, Joints, Knee, Implant
Ferrari has managed to go 78 years before making its first fully electric vehicle. It's begun to reveal some details of what that'll look like, ahead of its proper 2026 launch – and what it will sound like too.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Electric Vehicles, Ferrari
In a groundbreaking study, a healthy fatty acid in olive oil and nuts has been found to "supercharge" immune cells specialized to fight cancer. Meanwhile, another kind of natural fatty acid undermines these cells and may diminish the body's ability to stave off tumor growth.
Category: Cancer, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: University of Hong Kong, Cancer, Tumors, Olive, Oil, Palm, Immunotherapy, Nutrition, Diet
