Japan's famed kei cars were born out of the country's post-war need for affordable, practical transportation. Strict limits on dimensions and engine size translated into generous tax breaks, making car ownership attainable for millions.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Honda, Kei Cars, Hot hatch, Electric Vehicles
A novel three-in-one medication known as a "polypill" has been put to the test in a trial of more than 200 heart failure patients, in an effort to find a new way to effectively treat the condition with fewer drugs and better health outcomes. The findings were just what the scientists had hoped for.
Category: Heart Disease, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: UT Southwestern, Heart attack, Heart, Heart Failure, Heart health, Personalized medicine, clinical trials, Experimental, Age-Related
Naked motorcycles are probably the most fun road-going motorcycles money can buy. And when you’re talking about nakeds, KTM’s Dukes are up there with some of the best in the world. Of that entire Duke lineup, it’s the 790 that has fascinated me the most, offering the sweet spot of just enough power to be a serious everyday motorcycle, while remaining incredibly nimble.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: KTM, Naked bike
The tides can often change very quickly in the automotive world. That’s exactly what has happened with Polestar, which has just been banned from selling its cars in the US market by the country’s Commerce Department.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Microplastics are everywhere, visible as small specks in water samples, tissue biopsies, and post-mortem examinations.
Category: Imaging & Diagnostics, Medical Innovations, Body and Mind
Tags: Microplastic, Imaging, Pollution, Medical Imaging
US design firm Renée del Gaudio Architecture has completed a 2,100-sq-ft (195-sq-m) retreat in Allenspark, Colorado. Dubbed Camp Meeker Cabin, the project strips mountain living back to its quieter essentials, while still embracing contemporary environmental design.
Category: Architecture, Engineering
Tags: Cabins, Tiny Footprint, nature, Home, sustainable design
Md Redyan Ahmed, University of Sydney/The Conversation
Tags: University of Sydney, Space exploration, Space telescope, Stars, Planet, Brown dwarf, Jupiter
There are a lot of titanium devices on Kickstarter, and honestly … many of those gadgets just use the strong yet lightweight metal as a marketing gimmick. The Voyageur, however, is a suitcase that takes full advantage of titanium's special features.
Tags: Kickstarter, xxKickbooster, Titanium, Travel, Waterproof
As an expected 150 million Americans dig into a hot dog this 4th of July weekend, physicians highlight how little we know about the health risks of this kind of processed meat. In fact, close to 90% of US adults surveyed were unsure of or completely unaware of any issues.
Category: Diet & Nutrition, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: Red meat, Health, Carcinogens, Cancer, Chronic illness, Diet, World Health Organization, CDC
India's burgeoning eVTOL industry has seen major advancements, investment, and partnerships taking place over the last few years. The country has just seen an indigenously produced 1,540-lb (700-kg) half-scale demonstrator wrap up its integrated flight testing, inching it closer to the era of air taxis.
Tags: eVTOL, India, Air Taxis, Flight Tests, Wisk, Lilium, Joby Aviation, Volocopter, Beta Technologies
Architecture firm Meister Varma has completed a house in Kotagiri, a hill town in India's Nilgiri Mountains, that's held up by the stones of the collapsed colonial-era cottage that once occupied the same plot. It’s called Shilaya, which is from the Sanskrit word for stone. It’s a clear nod to the structure that stood there before it. Shilaya looks south over a garden earmarked for future cottages, with staff quarters to the west.
Category: Architecture, Engineering
Tags: Building and Construction, House, Home, India, Reuse
Adam Taylor & Michelle Swainson, Lancaster University/The Conversation
Category: Diet & Nutrition, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: peptide, anti-aging, Women, Women's health
Building a paper airplane can be as demanding as building the airframe of a real aircraft. And once a group of students in Pisa set out to make the world’s largest one, the classroom craft turned into a very real engineering problem, tackling stability, weight, stiffness and aerodynamics with an almost surgical attention to every millimeter.
Tags: Engineering, Paper, Plane, Guinness, Record
Soon after Earth formed, life happened. It all started with a soup of complex organic chemicals delivered express from space. Then stuff happened, and pow, there were itty-bitty cells.
Tags: University of Minnesota, Cells, Molecules, Experimental, Genetics, Genome, Evolution
“I love these things!” I exclaimed to Paul when he wheeled it out of his van. “They are crazy good!”
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: BMW, BMW Motorrad, Naked bike, Motorcycle
A new review by Tufts University researchers presents comprehensive and convincing research linking common sugar substitutes with metabolic disturbances that begin in the gut and then flow throughout the body. It also highlights issues of food-label transparency in the US.
Category: Diet & Nutrition, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: Tufts University, Artificial sweetener, Sugar, Metabolic syndrome, metabolism, Gut Bacteria, Gut health, Microbes, Microbiome, Type 2 diabetes, Cardiovascular
Energy storage usually brings to mind batteries, capacitors, tanks of hydrogen, or maybe some giant gravity system hauling blocks up a tower. Northwestern University researchers have now demonstrated something a lot stranger: a yellow liquid that “charges” by rebuilding itself into a black gel, stores electrons for months, then releases them on demand to drive chemical reactions.
Category: Energy, Engineering
For centuries, scientists have marveled at the brain's ability to organize sensory information into neat topographical maps. Vision, touch, and hearing rely on orderly patterns in which neighboring neurons respond to adjacent features.
Growing its lineup of compact, agile small motorhomes optimized around improvised adventure, Winnebago has launched the Elora/Resa. The new B+ motorhome provides an inviting experience for first-time RVers, piling up details aimed at making the transition to RV life as approachable and intuitive as driving a new car. Plus, the price tag is tens of thousands less than several of Winnebago's camper vans. The new platform makes it easier to embrace life on the move and adapt to whatever unexpected twists the open road throws out next.
Category: RVs and Motorhomes, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: Winnebago, RV, RAM, Motorhome, Motorhomes, Camping, Outdoors and Camping
We're not quite nervy enough to label the new Néo7 Alpine from French legacy knifemaker Opinel a "multitool," but it does meet the strict definition with several different functions packed inside one chassis. And you don't have to be a world-traveled mountaineer to find regular everyday uses for each one. The new ultralight adventure-ready pocket knife pairs Opinel's timeless form, style and simplicity with a few features that promise to make it more useful and quicker to deploy.
Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors
Tags: EDC, Knife, Multitools, opinel, Climbing, Mountaineering, Skiing, Backpacking, Hiking, Outdoors and Camping
