New York might be known as the city that never sleeps, but it turns out there's a lot less shuteye happening in urban areas across the globe. And it's not because of nightlife, but the artificial light emitted from buildings and infrastructure that is driving up levels of insomnia for even those in smaller metropolises.

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Category: Sleep

Tags: Southern University of Science and Technology, Urban Planning, Urban Redevelopment, Insomnia, Sleep, Artificial, Light, City

For the first time, researchers have discovered that the accumulation of aged and failing cells, called senescent cells, in one diseased organ can spread to multiple healthy organs, causing them to fail. The findings have opened the door to preventing multi-organ – or even age-related – disease.

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Category: Body & Mind

Tags: Cellular senescence, Liver disease, Multi-organ failure, University of Edinburgh

Situated in Yangpo Village atop the Gaoligong Mountains, the Nujiang Grand Canyon Bookstore blends contemporary architecture with the surrounding natural and cultural landscape. With panoramic views of the Nujiang River and nearby peaks, the innovative project showcases an approach that connects modern design with local heritage.

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Category: Architecture, Lifestyle

Tags: Library, Concrete, China

Royal Enfield knows a thing or two about creating retro classics but a drag bike? That’s a stretch. Oregon-based ICON Motosports has created a custom café racer based on the Shotgun 650 that’ll turn heads again and again.

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Custom Bikes, Royal Enfield, EICMA 2024

Although autonomous, uncrewed ships are now being trialled, those vessels still need human workers to moor them when they come into port. That could soon change, however, thanks to a new automated suction-based mooring system.

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Category: Marine, Transport

Tags: Autonomous, Ships

Australian food company Vow is working on lab-grown foie gras that not only takes the cruelty out of producing it, but also aims to make a distinctively tastier version of the delicacy.

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Category: Technology

Tags: Lab grown meat, Food

The incredible rate of construction in Saudi Arabia shows no sign of slowing with yet another ambitious project announced. This time it's a massive sports stadium, which will be one of the world's largest once complete, and is designed to resemble a seed germinating in the desert.

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Category: Architecture, Lifestyle

Tags: Building and Construction, Saudi Arabia, Stadium

Prepare to start seeing unprecedented shapes and designs in the motocross world. Spanish company Stark Future is taking titanium 3D printing out of the prototyping lab, and into mass production of its insane electric dirtbikes.

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: 3-D+Printing, Electric Motorcycles, Dirtbikes, Manufacturing Technologies, Titanium

The sixth flight of SpaceX's Starship went off today without a second capture landing of the Super Heavy first stage, but it did have a dramatic daylight powered soft landing of the Starship second stage in the Indian Ocean. And a banana.

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Category: Space, Science

Tags: Starship, SpaceX, Launch

Milwaukee camper van innovator Orion Motors takes the largest Ford Transit cargo van out there and turns it into a camper utility van so versatile, you can use it 365 days a year.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Campervan, Ford, RV, Cargo, Van, Outdoors and Camping, Camping

It's ironic that even when surrounded by water, sailors who are lost at sea can still die of thirst. The QuenchSea 3.0 portable desalinator is designed to keep that from happening, and it requires no power source other than its user's arm muscles.

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Category: Outdoors, Lifestyle

Tags: Kickstarter, Desalination, Water, Osmosis

When most of us think of freshly poured concrete, we picture a material that should be left to dry as smooth as possible. A new wheeled robot drives right over the stuff, however, gouging its surface to make structures stronger yet also cheaper to build.

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Category: Robotics, Technology

Tags: Concrete, Construction, Autonomous

Phoenix-based mobility outfit Lectric has a reputation for quality builds at affordable prices. Such is the case for an updated version of the XPeak all-terrain adventure bike, which keeps the same price tag as the original but can now be optioned with a longer-range battery.

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Category: Bicycles, Transport

Tags: ebikes, Pedal-assisted, Off-road

China is now home to the world's most powerful centrifuge capable of creating artificial gravity. This facility will enable a wide range of experiments to help make sense of scientific phenomena, simulate geological events, and test new materials.

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Category: Science

Tags: Gravity, China, Testing, World's Most Powerful

Back in 2022, Eco Wave Energy announced plans to relocate its wave energy array from Gibraltar to the Port of Los Angeles. Now the company has secured final approval for what will become the first onshore wave energy project in the US.

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Category: Energy, Technology

Tags: Wave Power, Renewable Energy, Clean Energy

At a test track in Germany, Bugatti has just recorded an open-top speed much quicker than the iconic Veyron managed with a roof on when it stunned the world in 2010. Next stop, says Mate Rimac, is 500 km/h (311 mph) and the outright speed crown.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Bugatti, Hypercar, Supercar, World's Fastest, World Records, Convertible

Chilean architectural studio Tololo Ugarte has created a luxurious vaulted tiny house that blurs the lines between its tasteful interior and the surrounding landscape. Dubbed Catalejo, which means Spyglass, the project leverages the unique attributes of its site to inform the design.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Lifestyle

Tags: Tiny Footprint, Cabins, Off-grid, Home

The rebirth of commercial supersonic flight has kind of, sort of come to pass as Dawn Aerospace announces that its 16-ft (4.8-m) autonomous Mk-II Aurora rocket-powered aircraft broke the sound barrier with a speed of Mach 1.1 on November 12, 2024.

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Category: Aircraft, Transport

Tags: Supersonic, Dawn Aerospace

A peptide hormone produced in the brain that triggers physiological reproductive responses has been 'hacked' by scientists to form an effective, safe and non-invasive way to treat chronic gut pain. It's being deemed an entirely new class of painkiller.

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Category: Chronic Pain, Illnesses and conditions, Body & Mind

Tags: University of Queensland, Irritable bowel syndrome, irritable-bowel-disease, Chronic, Pain, Drugs, Drug delivery, Analog, molecular biology, Gastrointestinal

On November 11, MAPHEUS-15 became the 600th suborbital rocket launched from Sweden’s Esrange Space Center. While not wanting to downplay this impressive milestone, many are keener to see whether its payload paid off, scientifically speaking.

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Category: Body & Mind

Tags: Cells, Health, Microgravity, La Trobe University