Healthy eating doesn’t just shrink your waistline; it can ease chronic pain. A new study shows that better diet quality reduced pain severity and improved quality of life, independent of weight loss.
Category: Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: Diet, Chronic pain, Weight Loss, University of South Australia
Your morning coffee might do more than wake you up – it could weaken donated blood. A large new study shows caffeine lowers red blood cell quality, making transfusions less effective, especially in patients who need them most.
Category: Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: Red blood cells, Blood, Caffeine, University of Colorado
A year after making its world premiere, the ruggedest camper in Dethleffs' fleet gains some extra space up high, sleeping an entire family anywhere from the local camping resort to the most nonlocal of inhospitable wild lands. The pop-up Globebus Performance 4x4 is just a concept camper for now, but it looks smartly polished enough to make a production debut any time.
Category: RVs and Motorhomes, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: Motorhome, Motorhomes, RV, Off-road, Off-grid, dusseldorf-caravan-salon-2025, Camping, Dethleffs, Outdoors and Camping
Researchers have uncovered a gut-diet link to postpartum depression, finding that eating a diet of soy, fermented foods, and seaweed may nurture beneficial gut bacteria and protect mothers’ mental health.
Category: Body and Mind
Tags: Gut Bacteria, Microbiome, Gut-brain axis, Postpartum depression, Kyoto University
Over four years since it landed on Mars, NASA's Perseverance Rover might have made serious headway in its mission to find signs of ancient microbial life on the planet.
Tags: Mars, NASA, perseverance, JPL
The escalating drone arms race has taken a new turn with Saab's introduction of its Project Nimbrix Counter-Unmanned Aerial System (C-UAS) missile – a low-cost fire-and-forget anti-small-drone and drone swarm weapon with a modest footprint.
Category: Military, Technology
Tags: Saab, UAV, Missile Defense
When scientists study obesity and weight-loss treatment, it's most often about genetics, lack of physical activity and poor eating habits. However, new findings show that stress, hardship, isolation and social inequality create the biological environment that underpins the condition that now affects around 40% of US adults.
Category: Obesity, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: UCLA, Obesity, Gut Bacteria, Gut-brain axis, Chronic illness, Nutrition, Weight Loss, Exercise
Signs of immune system aging appear years before rheumatoid arthritis takes hold, offering new hope for early diagnosis and treatments that could slow or stop the disease before it starts, according to new research.
Category: Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: Rheumatoid arthritis, The Immune System, Aging, T-cells, Biomarkers, University of Birmingham
Aprilia has gone all out with its new RSV4 X-GP, a beast of a track-only superbike that arguably makes more power than anything else you can buy outside of Kawasaki's supercharged Ninja lineup this year.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Full self-driving. Tesla’s astonishingly wild promise seems to have gone off the rails. It’s been nearly a decade since Tesla announced that all of its production vehicles would be capable of autonomous driving, with CEO Elon Musk repeatedly stating that it would happen by the end of each year since 2018.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Tesla, Tesla Motors, Autonomous Vehicles, Self-Driving, Electric Vehicles, Autonomous Vehicles, Elon Musk
Earlier in the year we saw Unihertz sub-brand 8849 sharpen up the visuals for the built-in projector of its Tank 4 Pro rugged smartphone. Now Blackview is doing the same to its Active 12 Pro rugged tablet, but this time we're looking at Full HD image throws.
Category: Outdoors
Tags: Rugged, Tablet, Projectors, HD
One of the problems with microplastics pollution lies in the fact that the plastic particles can be so small, we don't even know they're present in water in the first place. A new type of engineered bacteria could help, by causing those microparticles to glow green.
Category: Environment, Science
Tags: American Chemical Society, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Microplastic, Bacteria, Pollution, Water
We don't fully understand why some people appear more attractive to mosquitoes – largely because it's complicated, a tangled web of physiological factors, geography and species. But a new study has found that for some people, the biting insects are partial to the taste of beer.
Tags: Radboud University Nijmegen, Mosquito, Malaria, Animal science, Insect, Beer, Music festival
We didn't expect Flextail to let Nitecore's APO5C backcountry micro-inflator stand for too long without firing a counterstrike. And what a strike it is. The all-new Zero 2.0 takes Flextail's already highly popular, benchmark-setting Zero pump to the next level with a lighter build that weighs an even ounce, increased output and a swappable extreme-weather battery system. It's everything backcountry adventurers loved about the original Zero, just enhanced from end to end.
Tags: Pump, Lightweight, Portable, Backpacking, Bikepacking, Camping, Outdoors and Camping, Inflatable
Volkswagen doesn’t mix themes when it comes to the Atlas. The Atlas is a big, three-row, family SUV that’s made for daily driving and day-to-day comfort. It’s not sporty, exotic, off-road crazy, or anything other than an honest utility.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Volkswagen, SUV, Reviews
Millions of people love the power boost offered by ebikes, so wouldn't they appreciate a similar boost for activities such as hiking? That's the thinking behind the Dnsys X1 powered exoskeleton, which I recently put to the test. It works as advertised … but it may not be for you.
Tags: Wearable, Exoskeleton, Assistive Technologies, Reviews
Though the name Marshall is synonymous with guitar amplification, the brand has branched out into personal and home audio, as well as curveballs like a fridge and smartphone. Now the company is getting its party on with the Bromley 750.
Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Marshall Amps, Bluetooth Speakers, Portable Audio, Loudspeakers
CFMoto is not resting on its laurels, having just recently revealed its first-ever inline-four sports motorcycle. The Chinese bikemaker has just revamped its lineup for America with some exciting motos that make the brand hard to ignore.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: CFMoto, China, Naked bike, Sportsbikes, Cruisers
Shell says it's developed a thermal management fluid for electric vehicles (EV) that can help speed up battery charging dramatically – we're talking 10%-80% in under 10 minutes. Not bad for an oil and gas company, eh?
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Battery, Battery Charger, Shell, Electric Vehicles
The company behind what we called the Rolls-Royce of electric scooters has announced an interesting long-range speed pedelec called the SP01. The touring ebike sports a 1,000-watt mid-drive motor, Shimano gears and front squish.
Tags: ebikes, Pedal-assisted, Touring, Bikepacking, IFA 2025
