A new landmark has opened in Dubai that brings together desert architecture and forest living. Designed by Beijing-based architecture studio aoe, working in collaboration with Dubai’s STUDIOI, the Ghaf Woods Experience Centre serves as an introduction to what's being described as the city’s first forest-integrated residential community.
Category: Architecture, Technology
Tags: Dubai, Eco-Town, Urban Planning
For nearly a decade, a Phoenix, Arizona-based outfit has been working on a smart replacement for the giant rubber tires that go on heavy mining vehicles – think haul trucks, excavators, and bulldozers that can weigh dozens of tons. The descriptively named company, Global Air Cylinder Wheels (GACW), is inching towards a commercial launch of its airless wheels, and it might be on to something big.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Old Nazi warheads and US warships have been reclaimed by a new army of diverse marine life, as scientists uncover how nature has made use of the munitions and fleets that ended up dumped in waterways during the two world conflicts.
Category: Environment, Science
Tags: Duke University, Marine Biology, World War One, Warfare, Weapons, Ships, Pollution, Historic
Woodworking specialist Madeiguincho recently completed another of its eye-catching timber tiny houses. Named Berra, the dwelling showcases the firm's expertise with wood and provides a compact, light-filled home for a small family.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
Following the success of its Nebula X1 outdoor projector, Anker's smart entertainment brand – Soundcore – has wrapped a Pro version in a big ol' wheeled outer skin and paired it with a 200-inch inflatable screen for what's being billed the "world's first mobile theater station."
Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Outdoors and Camping, Projectors, 4K UHD, Laser, Inflatable, Surround Sound, All-in-one, Mobile, Dolby, Kickstarter
A headline-grabbing study that helped fuel the apple cider vinegar (ACV) boom has now been pulled from the scientific record, striking a blow to the authors, the wellness community and journal publisher BMJ Group. The research, which claimed that a daily teaspoon or two of ACV could drive striking weight loss and metabolic improvements, was found to have "multiple errors" and results that couldn't be proven.
Category: Diet & Nutrition, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: University of New South Wales, University of Queensland, Weight Loss, Obesity, Diet, clinical trials, Dietary supplements
Animal studies say rapamycin can slow aging – but does it work in humans? A new review finds the evidence for the off-label, low-dose use of the drug in healthy adults is thin, inconsistent, and far from conclusive.
Category: Aging Well, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: Aging, Healthy aging, anti-aging, Longevity
What has zero moving parts, yet can blast an aerial vehicle to velocities beyond Mach 5? The answer is the recently flight-tested Atmospheric Test of Launched Airbreathing System (ATLAS) powered by a new solid-fueled ramjet built by GE Aerospace.
Category: Military, Technology
Tags: GE Aerospace, Aircraft, Hypersonic
Our gut microbes and genes are in constant conversation, shaping each other in ways that affect everything from immunity and inflammation to disease risk, according to new review of scientific evidence. It’s a partnership that could transform how we prevent and treat illness.
Category: Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: Gut Bacteria, Microbiome, Epigenetics, Communications, University of Hawaii
Scientists have just taken the most detailed look yet at the biology of a record-breaking human life, profiling a woman who lived to 117 years and 168 days free of cancer, cardiovascular disease and dementia. What they found could help us all with our own longevity.
Category: Aging Well, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: Age-Related, anti-aging, Cells, molecular biology, Health, Longevity
We've long known Specialized to be among the brands charging crazy-high prices for top-spec ebikes, but the new S-Works Turbo Levo 4 LTD e-MTB takes the trend to alarming heights, pricing in a few thousand dollars higher than a brand-new Nissan Versa. It's as if the company charged $1,000 for every character in that run-on product name. With its marbly blue-swirl paint and "cyborg"-level power delivery system, the LTD is definitely a wondrous piece of machinery, but is it really worth the price of a brand-new entry level sedan?
Tags: Specialized Bikes, ebikes, Most-Expensive, Mountain Bikes
Behold, the rise of the tennis-coaching robots. First there was the PongBot, followed by the Tenniix and the Acemate. Now, there's the possibly even more capable ball-shooting, performance-assessing, AI-packin' Aceii One.
Tags: Tennis, Robots, Coach, Artificial Intelligence, Kickstarter
Lava Music caused a glitch in the Matrix a few years back with an oddball carbon-fiber acoustic guitar rocking built-in digital effects. Now the company is looking to reshape the amplification landscape with "the world's most advanced amp."
Category: Music, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Kickstarter, Amplifiers, Guitar Effects, Learning, recording, Bluetooth Speakers
A report based on data compiled between 1990 to 2023 across 204 countries found that cardiovascular diseases (CVD) remain the most common cause of death among humans. Heart conditions are behind one in every three deaths on the planet.
Category: Body and Mind
Tags: Heart, Cardiovascular disease, Cardiovascular, University of Washington
With projects like the Halley VI Antarctic research station under its belt, Hugh Broughton Architects is no stranger to working in extreme environments. The UK firm will need this experience as it has now been commissioned to deliver a series of upgrades for Australia's Davis Station in Antarctica.
Category: Architecture, Technology
Tags: Hugh Broughton Architects, Antarctic, Shelter, Building and Construction, Australia
It's been six years since GoPro refreshed its Max 360-degree action cam, and the new model brings plenty of new features and thoughtfully updated hardware.
Category: Photography, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Consumer Electronics, GoPro, Actioncam, 360-degree, Insta360, DJI Innovations
Scientists have developed a new eyedrop that can ferry protective compounds all the way to the retina, paving the way for a less-invasive injection-free method of managing sight-stealing diseases such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
Category: Aging Well, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: RMIT University, RMIT, Retina, Eye diseases, Nanomedicine, Age-Related, Sight
The earliest evidence of the invention of the wheel pops up around 5,500 years ago in Uruk, ancient Mesopotamia, which has to go down as the most innovative society in human history. These guys, best we can tell, invented everything from cities, to maps, to sails, proverbs, aquariums, moral ideals and messiahs.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Wheel, In-wheel, Motor, Crowdfunding
Switching off a single enzyme in immune cells protected mice from obesity, type 2 diabetes, and fatty liver disease in a new study, offering a potential new treatment target for metabolic disorders.
Category: Obesity, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: Obesity, Enzyme, The Immune System, Type 2 diabetes, Inflammation, Monash University, Baylor College of Medicine
A layer of foam may be good at protecting you from simple whacks on the head, but it's not necessarily sufficient when you're cycling at speed. That's where RLS bike helmet tech comes in. It's claimed to offer four times the concussion protection of a regular helmet, via ball bearings and panels that pop off under pressure.
Tags: Helmets, Cycling, Road Safety, Traumatic Brain Injury
