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Emotive storytelling abounds in the 2025 Minimalist Photography Awards

In previous years, the winning entries of the annual Minimalist Photography Awards have stunned us with their embrace of surrealism and striking simplicity. In 2025, however, many of the compositions that took podium positions across categories tell layered, expressive tales of the human condition, and our connection to the world around us.

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Category: Photography, Consumer Tech, Technology

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Easy test identifies high stress levels in kids living with chronic illness

A simple haircut may reveal more than just split ends. By testing for the stress hormone cortisol, which is stored in hair, researchers can identify kids with chronic illness who face the greatest risk of anxiety, depression, or behavioral struggles.

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Category: Body and Mind

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Thule's foldable bumper tent could reinvent US car camping ... or not

Two years ago, Thule surprised the world with a vehicle hitch accessory quite different from the bike racks and cargo boxes it'd been dealing in for years. That product was the Outset, a hitch-mountable unfurling tent designed to combine the comfort and vehicle integration of a rooftop tent (RTT) with the ease of access and detachability of a tent trailer or simple ground tent. After several years on the European market, the tent is finally making its way over the Atlantic to the US. Will Americans embrace it like they did the rooftop tent, or is Thule trying to thread a needle through a hole that simply doesn't exist?

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Category: Outdoors

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Physicists turn to nuclear clocks in the hunt for dark matter

For all our telescopes and colliders, dark matter has remained an elusive ghost for the better part of a century. It outweighs everything we see by a factor of five, yet it slips past every detector built to catch it. Now, a team led by the Weizmann Institute of Science, with collaborators in Germany and Colorado, has turned to a nuclear clock with the hope of revealing the faint fingerprints of this hidden matter.

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Category: Physics, Science

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Opioid painkillers not linked to autism or ADHD, comprehensive study finds

In a massive study looking at more than two million individuals, scientists have failed to find any meaningful link between the use of opioid painkillers and the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), challenging earlier research suggesting otherwise.

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Category: ADHD & Autism, Brain Health, Body and Mind

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Battery-less earbuds promise better sleep without charging hassles

A UK-based company believes it's got a better way to drown out noises after dark and help you get a good night's rest. Somni says its sleep earbuds are the smallest ones you'll find anywhere, and don't ever need to be charged. I have to admit, I've never heard of such a thing, and I'm keen to be pleasantly surprised by this ambitious crowdfunded product.

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Category: Wearables, Consumer Tech, Technology

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Caged drugs still 'STING' cancer, but make treatment much safer

A new breakthrough from researchers at the University of Cambridge removes the dangers involved in a process called STING, in which the body's own immune system can be enlisted to fight cancer. The finding clears the way for a powerful, and safe, weapon against tumors.

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Category: Cancer, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind

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FDA approves first nasal spray diuretic for heart, liver and kidney disease

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first intranasal diuretic for heart, liver and kidney disease patients, aiming to prevent a common and costly issue that results in more than a million hospitalizations each year.

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Category: Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind

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Genre-warping plus-camper van launches for half the price we expected

Never one to shy away from making a scene at the annual Düsseldorf Caravan Salon, Bürstner came on mission this year, unleashing a furious innovation offensive that included novelties like a moving bathroom and a small semi-integrated motorhome dressed up like a camper van. The latter is the Signature, which teased such a compelling mix of sleek fiberglass construction, cutting-edge transforming spaces, and luxe trim, we initially expected it to price in well over €100K. Instead, it starts well under, giving camper van shoppers a very strong reason to consider sizing up to a Class B+ motorhome.

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Category: RVs and Motorhomes, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

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242-million-year-old reptile the oldest ancestor of lizards, snakes and tuatara

A tiny skull found on a beach in Devon has rewritten the early history of lizards, snakes and the tuatara, the last survivor of an ancient reptile lineage found only in New Zealand today. The new species dates back 242 million years, making it the earliest known lepidosaur.

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Category: Biology, Science

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