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Jan 01, 2026
Using chemical clues from Neanderthal bones, researchers have placed the species at the top of the food chain, alongside apex predators like lions - feasting on big animals such as mammoths or bison. However, experts have been missing out on one of their key, fat-rich, and easily collectible food sources: Maggots.
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Dec 31, 2025
From a CRISPR baby to a young AI disruptor, 2025 has seen some serious leaps in science and technology. It's also seen some people stand up to the growing pressures facing the science community. Now, the world's leading science journal, Nature, has named 10 prominent figures behind the year's standout moments, which stretch from the darkness of the deep sea to the far corners of the universe.
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Dec 31, 2025
Lithium. While it's not quite "the Spice" of Dune, the silvery, reactive metal is an extraordinarily valuable means for storing electricity, meaning it's a key tool for transitioning from climate-killing carbon-fuel consumption to a world-transforming economy and green-energy future.
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Dec 31, 2025
Being an outdoors enthusiast comes with one thing that most people don't enjoy all that much: packing bulky, heavy gear that never quite fits in the car, especially when it comes to cooking equipment. Currently available on Kickstarter, the Venno
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Dec 31, 2025
Despite its modest length of just 24 ft (7.3 m), the Pacific Wren packs an impressive amount of flexibility into its compact frame. The tiny house contains two bedrooms, a well-equipped kitchen, and even a small home office area.
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Tiny Houses, Outdoors
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Dec 31, 2025
Mini motos have always thrived on a simple idea: small, useful motorcycles that punch well above their weight. What started as post-war utility machines quickly transformed into farm runabouts and then eventually into cult favorites like Honda's Trail series in more recent times.
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Dec 30, 2025
The ability to make fire on demand has long been seen as a turning point in our evolutionary story. It unlocked benefits like cooking food, staying warm, and protection from predators. For thousands of years, our ancestors progressed from scavenging flames around wildfires to tending them and, eventually, sparking them deliberately.
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Dec 30, 2025
It's that time of year again - and my personal favorite corner of science to look back on - when we recap the many fascinating discoveries in the plant and animal kingdom that made headlines in 2025.
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Dec 30, 2025
It's that time of year again - and my personal favorite corner of science to look back on - when we recap the many fascinating discoveries in the plant and animal kingdom that made headlines in 2025.
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Dec 30, 2025
The Nissan Leaf is, in its own way, a big part of modern automotive history. It's the first affordable EV. And this all-new 2026 model keeps that groundbreaking premise, but updates it to relevance in today's more saturated market.
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Automotive, Transport
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Dec 30, 2025
I don't know about you, but I've always preferred making my own antibodies.
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Dec 30, 2025
In 2025, we saw some truly wondrous, often oddball tiny camping creations that included everything from extra-petite inflatable tow-pods, to self-powered rooftop A-frame micro-cabins, to platform-agnostic camper capsules built to roam from automobile to trailer. We definitely saw more than a year's fair share of category-defying camping contraptions.
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Dec 30, 2025
In 2025, we saw some truly wondrous, often oddball tiny camping creations that included everything from extra-petite inflatable tow-pods, to self-powered rooftop A-frame micro-cabins, to platform-agnostic camper capsules built to roam from automobile to trailer. We definitely saw more than a year's fair share of category-defying camping contraptions.
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Dec 30, 2025
Honda's new patent asks one weird but very interesting question: what if motorcycles came equipped with a steering-assist system, which would help with crash avoidance - a feature most modern-day cars come with?
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Dec 30, 2025
Honda's new patent asks one weird but very interesting question: what if motorcycles came equipped with a steering-assist system, which would help with crash avoidance - a feature most modern-day cars come with?
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Dec 30, 2025
Honda's new patent asks one weird but very interesting question: what if motorcycles came equipped with a steering-assist system, which would help with crash avoidance - a feature most modern-day cars come with?
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Dec 30, 2025
Honda's new patent asks one weird but very interesting question: what if motorcycles came equipped with a steering-assist system, which would help with crash avoidance - a feature most modern-day cars come with?
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Dec 30, 2025
Laser weapons go mobile as the US Army takes delivery of two 20-kW, anti-drone Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV)-mounted Laser-Oriented Counter-UAS System (LOCUST) Laser Weapon Systems (LWS) from AeroVironment.
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Military, Technology
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Dec 29, 2025
We all love a little Consumer Reports scoop, don't we? Last year, Subaru surpassed Toyota and Lexus to become the most reliable carmaker. This year, Toyota reclaims its crown. And there's one damning stat: Four out of the top five most reliable car brands this year are Japanese.
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Dec 29, 2025
A drug once designed for dengue virus, then quietly abandoned by industry, is suddenly back in the spotlight, and it may be exactly what the global health community has been waiting for. A new study suggests that this antiviral didn't just slow the dengue virus, it blocked viral replication and significantly reduced infection rates at high doses. Now, scien
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Dec 29, 2025
A drug once designed for dengue virus, then quietly abandoned by industry, is suddenly back in the spotlight, and it may be exactly what the global health community has been waiting for. A new study suggests that this antiviral didn't just slow the dengue virus, it blocked viral replication and significantly reduced infection rates at high doses. Now, scien
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Dec 29, 2025
A drug once designed for dengue virus, then quietly abandoned by industry, is suddenly back in the spotlight, and it may be exactly what the global health community has been waiting for. A new study suggests that this antiviral didn't just slow the dengue virus, it blocked viral replication and significantly reduced infection rates at high doses. Now, scien
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Dec 29, 2025
For most people, the loss of a sense such as sight is devastating, not only for intensifying vulnerability, but for undermining quality of life. While prostheses can be functionally useful, they can't replace the sensory information such as texture, moisture, and density that our skin so easil
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Dec 29, 2025
We humans are a delicate bunch. We don't have bark, boney exo-plates, or lush fur to protect us from hostile environments, so we have to steal what other creatures produce just to survive in regions around the only planet that supports us. A few naked days in Earth's hottest deserts would be more than enough to kill nearly all of us.
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Dec 29, 2025
This year has produced more than its fair share of fantastic buildings, and we've decided to take a look back at the best. From a house that was 3D printed using soil, to an upcoming megatall skyscraper, here's our selection of the top 10 architecture projects from the past 12 months.
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Dec 29, 2025
So, imagine you're Tony Stark, operating your armored, high-tech exoskeleton to fly through the skies by using your helmet's eye-tracking sensors to control your suit. And then, out of nowhere, the Mandarin blasts you with a force beam just before Fin Fang Foom tries punching your iron head through your iron rectum. And now with your eyes rolling inside your head like destabilized gyroscopes, do you keep fly
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Dec 29, 2025
So, imagine you're Tony Stark, operating your armored, high-tech exoskeleton to fly through the skies by using your helmet's eye-tracking sensors to control your suit. And then, out of nowhere, the Mandarin blasts you with a force beam just before Fing Fang Foom tries punching your iron head through your iron rectum. And now with your eyes rolling inside your head like destabilized gyroscopes, do you keep fl
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Dec 29, 2025
We've talked about Benda a few times before, and it seems every time there's a new motorcycle from the Chinese brand, there's some radical approach behind it. Whether it be a Transformers-
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Dec 28, 2025
Tea and coffee are two of the most popular drinks in the world - daily rituals linked to culture, comfort, and productivity. Now scientists have new insights into how each affects bone health, especially the risk of osteoporosis.
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Diet & Nutri
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Dec 28, 2025
The rhythmic action of blinking helps keep our vision sharp. Initially studied only in vision science, blinking is now also recognized as a subtle cue showing how the brain handles attention and resources, even when we are listening. It's thought that as listening becomes more difficult, we blink less, with each pause indicating sharper focus and alertness.
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Dec 28, 2025
The rhythmic action of blinking helps keep our vision sharp. Initially studied only in vision science, blinking is now also recognized as a subtle cue showing how the brain handles attention and resources, even when we are listening. It's thought that as listening becomes more difficult, we blink less, with each pause indicating sharper focus and alertness.
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Dec 28, 2025
The rhythmic action of blinking helps keep our vision sharp. Initially studied only in vision science, blinking is now also recognized as a subtle cue showing how the brain handles attention and resources, even when we are listening. It's thought that as listening becomes more difficult, we blink less, with each pause indicating sharper focus and alertness.
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Dec 28, 2025
The rhythmic action of blinking helps keep our vision sharp. Initially studied only in vision science, blinking is now also recognized as a subtle cue showing how the brain handles attention and resources, even when we are listening. It's thought that as listening becomes more difficult, we blink less, with each pause indicating sharper focus and alertness.
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Dec 28, 2025
The past 12 months have produced a remarkable number of buildings that push architecture to new heights. From a megatall skyscraper to the world's longest suspension bridge, here's our pick of the 10 most ambitious projects this year.
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Dec 28, 2025
The time is finally here. Nearly 3 years after Buell's most ambitious motorcycle was first revealed, deliveries for the Super Cruiser have begun in America. You know what they say: better late than never. Right?
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Dec 28, 2025
The time is finally here. Nearly 3 years after Buell's most ambitious motorcycle was first revealed, deliveries for the Super Cruiser have begun in America. You know what they say: better late than never. Right?
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Dec 28, 2025
The Christmas photos of the Chinese civilian-looking cargo ship that appears to be weaponized are real. It's sitting exactly where analysts say it is - the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard in Shanghai. And yes, it absolutely looks like it's been fitted with containerized missile launchers, sensors, and point-defense hardware.
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Dec 28, 2025
The Christmas photos of the Chinese civilian-looking cargo ship that appears to be weaponized are real. It's sitting exactly where analysts say it is - the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard in Shanghai. And yes, it absolutely looks like it's been fitted with containerized missile launchers, sensors, and point-defense hardware.
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Dec 28, 2025
The descendants of black-bear-sized giants who could haul massive rocks with their mouths, modern Castor canadensis once numbered as many as 400 million in North America. Felling mighty trees with their orange, iron-infused, nearly invincible incisors, they created their terraforming, hydro-engineering, half-sub
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Dec 28, 2025
In the South China Sea, near the Paracel Islands, the aqua-colored waters of an expansive shallow reef platform suddenly gives way to a near vertical shaft of vast darkness - an ocean sinkhole almost entirely devoid of oxygen and, in turn, marine life as we know it.
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Dec 28, 2025
In the South China Sea, near the Paracel Islands, the aqua-colored waters of an expansive shallow reef platform suddenly gives way to a near vertical shaft of vast darkness - an ocean sinkhole almost entirely devoid of oxygen and, in turn, marine life as we know it.
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Dec 28, 2025
As the year nears its end, it's high time to take a look back at the best tiny houses of 2025. From high-end spacious models suitable for a family, to those that are modest in
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Dec 28, 2025
High on the sheer limestone cliffs in southwest China, ancient wooden coffins remain wedged into rock faces hundreds of feet above the ground. Long treated as archaeological curiosities, these dramatic burials are now being re-examined using an
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Dec 28, 2025
High on the sheer limestone cliffs in southwest China, ancient wooden coffins remain wedged into rock faces hundreds of feet above the ground. Long treated as archaeological curiosities, these dramatic burials are now being re-examined using an
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Dec 27, 2025
Four years ago, when the RA9 concept was first introduced by the Chinese-origin Cyclone, a part of the bigger Zongshen group, it became one of the most advanced bikes to come out of China. That's because in 2021, the idea of a liter-class Chinese bike was still fairly unexplored.
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Dec 27, 2025
Researchers at China's National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) have accelerated a one-ton vehicle from a dead stop to 435 mph (700 km/h) in under two seconds - then back to zero mph on about a 1/4 mile (1,312 ft / 400 meter) magnetic levitation test track. It's not just fast - it's absurd. That makes it the quickest superconducting maglev acceleration ever demonstrated.
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Dec 27, 2025
Researchers at China's National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) have accelerated a one-ton vehicle from a dead stop to 435 mph (700 km/h) in under two seconds - then back to zero mph on about a 1/4 mile (1,312 ft / 400 meter) magnetic levitation test track. It's not just fast - it's absurd. That makes it the quickest superconducting maglev acceleration ever demonstrated.
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Dec 27, 2025
In order to 3D-print really intricate items, you need a really fine print nozzle. Scientists have discovered that instead of going to the time and trouble of building one, you can simply repurpose a mosquito's existing blood-sucking proboscis.
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Dec 27, 2025
In order to 3D-print really intricate items, you need a really fine print nozzle. Scientists have discovered that instead of going to the time and trouble of building one, you can simply repurpose a mosquito's existing blood-sucking proboscis.
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Dec 27, 2025
If you like quirky bicycle-related inventions, then this list is definitely for you. Yes, it's time once again to present our Top 10 bike products from the past year, that really "did things differently from the rest."
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Bicycles, Transport
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Dec 27, 2025
If SUVs were cocktails, the 2026 Mercedes-Benz GLE would be an old-fashioned. The bartender won't raise an eyebrow and you'll get what you expected without any bougie pretense.
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Automotive,
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Dec 26, 2025
Tensions always run high between sports fans of rival teams on game day. But a new study shows that the rise of legalized sports betting in the US is turning those tensions into something far darker.
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Lifestyle
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Dec 26, 2025
2025 has been a big year for wild ideas and we've decided it's high time to look back and highlight the best. From building a skyscraper in a rural Alpine village, to massive animal-like power line pylons, here's our favorite examples of unusual architecture.
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Architecture
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Dec 26, 2025
If you're shopping for a used car, you know just how instrumental the smallest details are. Price, brand, mileage, condition… you're probably juggling everything at once, trying to find the perfect car that offers a mix of all these attributes. But here's the most important factor you're probably missing: r
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Dec 25, 2025
Dinosaurs may be long extinct, but 2025 made it abundantly clear that they're anything but settled science. Over the past year, new fossils, reanalyses of famous specimens and the use of increasingly sophisticated tools have continued to upend what we thought we knew about how these animals lived, moved, fed and evolved.
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Dec 25, 2025
A couple of months back we reported on an e-mobility spin-off from Rivian that launched a modular ebike that rides without a chain or belt. Pre-orders for the T-MB are now open, but Also is already looking to protect your noggin with a light-packing smart helmet.
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Dec 25, 2025
We certainly saw some major health-related breakthroughs in 2025, including a universal cancer vaccine and human trials for the world's first treatment to reverse spinal cord injuries. But the year was also filled with smaller findings that can still have a big impact on your day-to-day health.
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Dec 24, 2025
If you're chionoandrophobic, we recommend looking away now. Standing about 62 ft (19 m) tall, measuring roughly 46 ft (14 m) long and 36 ft (11 m) wide, 2025's largest snowman has been erected in northeast China. The smiling icy monster required some 124,000 cubic feet (3,500 cubic meters) of snow, and has already become a big touris
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Dec 24, 2025
From water-skipping robots to elephant-skin inspired cooling materials, engineers have continued to find inspiration in nature in order to move technology forward for humans.
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Science
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Dec 24, 2025
HiSense has already put out a bunch of impressive projectors to suit different needs this year - and with the upcoming XR10, it appears to have pulled out all the stops to tempt laser home cinema enthusiasts.
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Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech,
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Dec 24, 2025
I know I sounded pretty excited when I talked about Valve's Steam Frame hea
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Dec 24, 2025
Beginning sourdough bakers can lessen their struggles with Crustello, a Kickstarter from American AI tech company Race Box. It takes the stress out of being a helicopter parent of a sourdough starter kit, by modernizing an ancient baking method.
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Dec 24, 2025
At first glance, a flyable airplane made of cardboard sounds almost like a joke - the sort of thing that collapses long before it ever leaves the ground. But YouTuber and serial tinkerer Peter Sripol built one that you could sit in, roll down a runway, and attempt to fly.
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Dec 24, 2025
Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) and the University of Michigan have created the world's smallest autonomous and programmable robots. Each measuring about 200 micrometers wide - roughly twice the width of a human hair - these machines can perceive their surroundings, "think," and act independently without external instructions. According to their developers, such technology could one day monitor the health of individual cell
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Dec 24, 2025
The Trump administration has announced that it wants to build a new class of battleships. But this is just one element of the Golden Fleet -a larger program of naval reform aimed at a major transformation of the US Navy and its strategy.
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Dec 23, 2025
The next transformative phase of weight-loss medication is upon us, with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approving Novo Nordisk's highly anticipated oral GLP-1 drug - with a starting dose available in early January for US$149.
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Dec 23, 2025
The Mouflon Tent from Belgian-American company CanvasCamp pulls together a rugged canvas build, instant-pitching integrated hub frame, and massive windows on all four sides like no other tent we've seen. Whether you're leisurely camping at a local park or overlanding t
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Dec 23, 2025
The Mouflon Tent from Belgian-American company CanvasCamp pulls together a rugged canvas build, instant-pitching integrated hub frame, and massive windows on all four sides like no other tent we've seen. Whether you're leisurely camping at a local park or overl
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Dec 23, 2025
The Mouflon Tent from Belgian-American company CanvasCamp pulls together a rugged canvas build, instant-pitching integrated hub frame, and massive windows on all four sides like no other tent we've seen. Whether you're leisurely camping at a local park or overl
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Dec 23, 2025
While it might sound like a weapon of oceanic destruction in the hands of Aquaman's arch enemies, the new "stingraybot" from a team at ETH Zurich (the Federal Institute of Technology of Switzerland) offers enormous promise for surgery, medical care, wildlife biology, robotics, and more, thanks to muscular memb
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Dec 23, 2025
While it might sound like a weapon of oceanic destruction in the hands of Aquaman's arch enemies, the new "stingraybot" from a team at ETH Zurich (the Federal Institute of Technology of Switzerland) offers enormous promise for surgery, medical care, wildlife biology, robotics, and more, thanks to muscular memb
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Dec 23, 2025
Making the wings on passenger jets thinner and longer can go a long way toward reducing drag and making them more efficient, but they vibrate like crazy. Engineers at NASA and Boeing are now tackling the problem.
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Aircraft, Trans
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Dec 23, 2025
It's hard not to think of 'T800' without "The Terminator" and "Skynet" coming to mind. However, EngineAI has created a robot with that exact name. This isn't Hollywood science fiction; it's an acrobatic, combat-ready machine that will soon be mass-produced for industrial applica
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Dec 23, 2025
Since 2011, scientists have been puzzled about the force resulting from a gigantic earthquake and tsunami that destroyed, among other things, Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Plant. Now, a Guinness World Record drilling expedition has solved the puzzle.
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Environment, Science
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Dec 23, 2025
When Triumph released its first-ever 400cc motorcycles last year - the Speed 400 and Scram 400 - very few people would have foreseen the success that followed. Many at the time termed them as the most value-for-money motorcycles on the market, and it seems like the bikemaker has taken note of that success.
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Dec 22, 2025
The end of the Age of the Battleship appears to have been called prematurely as the Trump administration, as part of its Golden Fleet US Navy reform, says it is reviving the giant battlewagons in the form of 35,000-tonne Trump-class battleships.
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Dec 22, 2025
Back in 2009, a friend bet British cyclist Paul Spencer that he couldn't ride his bike the length of the British Isles in less than a week. Spencer took up the challenge, and completed the route - from Land's End in England to John O' Groats village in Scotland - in just four days.
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Dec 22, 2025
After several busy years of ebike and bicycle camper debuts, the segment really seemed to slow down in 2025. In fact, we only saw one new bicycle camper debut this year, in the form of the truly one-of-a-kind Spacecamper e-cargo-
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Dec 22, 2025
After several busy years of ebike and bicycle camper debuts, the segment really seemed to slow down in 2025. In fact, we only saw one new bicycle camper debut this year, in the form of the truly one-of-a-kind Spacecamper e-cargo-integrated nano-motorhome. Befo
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Dec 22, 2025
After several busy years of ebike and bicycle camper debuts, the segment really seemed to slow down in 2025. In fact, we only saw one new bicycle camper debut this year, in the form of the truly one-of-a-kind Spacecamper e-cargo-integrated nano-motorhome. Befo
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Dec 22, 2025
After several busy years of ebike and bicycle camper debuts, the segment really seemed to slow down in 2025. In fact, we only saw one new bicycle camper debut this year, in the form of the truly one-of-a-kind Spacecamper e-cargo-
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Dec 22, 2025
After several busy years of ebike and bicycle camper debuts, the segment really seemed to slow down in 2025. In fact, we only saw one new bicycle camper debut this year, in the form of the truly one-of-a-kind Spacecamper e-cargo-integrated nano-motorhome. Befo
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Dec 22, 2025
Many of the tiny houses we see nowadays can actually be surprisingly expensive and quite spacious, with some even suitable for raising a family. However, the Ambra focuses on the basics and delivers a genuinely small, affordable home for up to two people.
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Dec 22, 2025
I haven't tried this product, but even
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Dec 22, 2025
In the first long-term and real-world reflective study of its kind, scientists have uncovered new detrimental health impacts of the artificial sweetener aspartame that echoes those found in shorter research.
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Dec 21, 2025
I never once dreamed of having automated blinds until one day when Smartwings reached out for a review. I was hesitant at first because I live in a rental, but then I thought I'd for sure get my deposit back when we eventually move out after an upgrade like automatic shades, right?
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Dec 21, 2025
I never once dreamed of having automated blinds until one day, when Smartwings reached out for a review. I was hesitant at first because I live in a rental, but then I thought I'd for sure get my deposit back when we eventually move out after an upgrade like automatic shades, right?
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Dec 21, 2025
For nearly a century, a strange band of thousands of holes carved into a Peruvian hillside has defied explanation. Stretching for nearly a mile (1.5 km) along the edge of the Pisco Valley, Monte Sierpe - "serpent mountain" appears to be a deliberate, repetitive and almost mathematical feature - but its real purpose h
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Dec 21, 2025
Boeing subsidiary Wisk Aero's Generation 6 eVTOL aircraft has completed its historic maiden flight. On December 16, 2025 at 12:26 pm PST, the autonomous passenger carrier lifted off from the Wisk flight test facility at Hollister, California.
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Aircraft, Transport
Boeing,
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Dec 21, 2025
Step aside, Van Gogh. Some spiders are out here making self-portraits for survival. New research shows that several orb-weaving species construct giant web-mounted "doppelgängers" convincing enough
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Dec 21, 2025
Step aside, Van Gogh. Some spiders are out here making self-portraits for survival. New research shows that several orb-weaving species construct giant web-mounted "doppelgängers" convincing enough
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Dec 20, 2025
Mitsubishi teased an update of its legendary, small, rugged Delica van a couple months back at the Tokyo Motor Show. Looking at the prototype it showed there, we wouldn't have pegged it as "the strongest ever," but that's how Mitsubishi announced it during the official production introduction this week.
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