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Looking for life on Saturn's largest moon Titan may be trickier than first thought. New computer simulations suggest that if life exists, there may not be a lot of it about. In fact, the mass probably wouldn't amount to much of anything at all.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: University of Arizona, Titan, Exobiology

Portable projectors like the Freedo, Zip and MoGo 3Pro can help take movie nights outside, but what if you don't have a plain flat wall to host the visuals? XGIMI has launched a relatively inexpensive portable screen designed specifically for projected entertainment outdoors.Continue ReadingCategory: Outdoors, LifestyleTags: XGIMI, Screens, Projectors, Portable

The only de-extinction company in the world announced today that 12,500 years after it last roamed the Earth, the dire wolf is no longer extinct.Continue ReadingCategory: Biology, ScienceTags: Cloning, Extinction, Genetics, Animal science, Animals

Some electric skateboards are nice sedate things, designed for leisurely commutes on city sidewalks. The Mach One isn't one those boards. It boasts a Formula 1 racecar-inspired design, a carbon deck, and a top speed of 45 mph (72 km/h).Continue ReadingCategory: Urban Transport, TransportTags: Electric Skateboards, Carbon Fiber

In the ever-shifting winds of "who-did-it-bigger?" China has just taken a back seat to European wind company Siemens Gamesa. The firm recently planted a colossal, world-record-setting turbine in the Østerild test field in Denmark.Continue ReadingCategory: Energy, TechnologyTags: Offshore Wind, Floating offshore wind, Siemens, Green+Energy, China

Shenzhen-based home entertainment outfit JMGO announced a new affordable addition to its triple-laser projector line at CES 2025, and now the N1S 4K model brings portable Google TV to folks for a time-limited launch price of under a grand.Continue ReadingCategory: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, TechnologyTags: 4K UHD, Projectors, Google TV, Laser

With its length of 9 m (almost 30 ft) and large covered porch area to encourage indoor/outdoor living, the Elouera tiny house is well-suited to life on wheels for a small family. It includes an airy and light-filled interior layout and runs off-the-grid with solar power.Continue ReadingCategory: Tiny Houses, LifestyleTags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home

There's seemingly no part of modern home life that can't be made just a little bit better thanks to smart technology. Case in point, the new Spicerr gadget that delivers perfectly measured spices thanks to flavor profiles you set through an app.Continue ReadingCategory: Around The Home, LifestyleTags: Cooking, Kickstarter, Crowdfunding, Smart Home

Award-winning custom motorcycle builder Maxwell Hazan has been creating stunning bespoke works of art on two wheels for discerning collectors for years now, designing and fashioning metals by hand since 2012.Continue ReadingCategory: Motorcycles, TransportTags: Custom Bikes, Ferrari, Engine, Art

Britain's Ministry of Defence, with the help of the United States, has achieved what is being billed as a major hypersonic propulsion test of a new engine design that could power a cutting-edge hypersonic cruise missile for UK armed forces by 2030.Continue ReadingCategory: Military, TechnologyTags: U.K. Ministry of Defence, Hypersonic, Weapons

It was 10 years ago that we first heard about Cocoa Motors' new WalkCar, which was used more or less like a Segway, and wasn't much bigger than a laptop. Well, it now has a new-and-improved successor.Continue ReadingCategory: Urban Transport, TransportTags: Electric Vehicles, Kickstarter

Kawasaki Heavy Industries has pulled the covers off perhaps the most outrageous concept vehicle we've ever seen. The Corleo is a two-seater quadruped robot you steer with your body, capable of picking its way through rough terrain thanks to AI vision.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags: Robots, Horse-riding, Kawasaki, Off-road, Hydrogen-powered, Concept Vehicle

Sometimes a flashlight just isn't enough. The Flying Sun 1000 drone system was designed with that fact in mind, as it uses 288 airborne LEDs to light up the night like the alien mothership from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.Continue ReadingCategory: Drones, Consumer Tech, TechnologyTags: Lighting, Quadcopter, Leds

We're going to be on the Moon a lot more often soon, and that means we'll need places to rest, conduct research, and work there. Building habitats and maintaining them will be tough, but bacteria could come to the rescue by helping repair cracked bricks made from lunar soil.Continue ReadingCategory: Materials, ScienceTags: Bacteria, Moon, Lunar

If you've ever eaten a pomegranate, you'll know that a great deal of the fruit is composed of its thick skin – which simply gets thrown away. Soon, however, that skin could be used in an edible coating which will help keep strawberries from spoiling.Continue ReadingCategory: ScienceTags: University of Sao Paulo, Fruit, Fungus, Coatings, Food technology

What does gut fermentation and stroke-induced brain inflammation have in common? Potentially a lot, according to new research looking into how the microbiome directly influences brain inflammation. It could make recovery faster, reduce cognitive impairment and protect the brain from secondary injuries following a stroke.Continue ReadingCategory: Stroke, Brain Health, Body & MindTags: UT Southwestern, Stroke, Brain, Brain activity, Microbiome, neurons, Cognitive functioning, Rehabilitation

Researchers have reviewed non-drug and non-surgical treatments for low back pain to assess which ones are more likely to reduce pain and improve function. What the review made clear is that more research into effective low back pain treatments is needed.Continue ReadingCategory: Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & MindTags: Low back pain, Treatment, Chronic pain, University of New South Wales, Neuroscience Research Australia

I first learned to drive when I was around 10 years old and had a driver’s license by the time I was 16. AI is now about 73 years old and still can’t drive. What gives?Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags: Artificial Intelligence, Self driving cars, Self-Driving, Autonomous Vehicles

Austin, Texas-based Bonnell is a new-ish electric two-wheeler brand with a foundation in all-terrain racing. With a distributed team across the US, Australia, Hong Kong, and China, it's been making electric mountain bikes for a bit, and now, it wants to muscle in on dirt bike territory with two models slated to arrive later this year.Continue ReadingCategory: Motorcycles, TransportTags: Electric Motorcycles, Dirt Bikes

It isn't easy to recycle high-voltage batteries from electric cars, but Porsche wants to take a stab at it. The plan: extract raw materials from old EV batteries to make fresh ones for its own electric models.Continue ReadingCategory: Energy, TechnologyTags: Batteries, Electric Vehicles, Recycling, Sustainability, Porsche

If there's one thing you want to do immediately after completing the kind of long, exhausting hike that's mandatory when backpacking, it's rip off those shoes and let your fiery, achy feet breathe a little. But as much as you'd like to whip out your most comfortably broken-in set of slippers or sandals, it can be tough to justify the pack space and weight...

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up regulations around extracting minerals offshore. That might soon change, as an ambitious company is moving steadily to secure permission to begin operations with the Trump administration's blessing – perhaps sooner than it should.Continue ReadingCategory: Marine, TransportTags: Ocean, Environment, Resources, Planetary Resources, Deep Sea...

Despite its relatively modest length of 34 ft (10 m), Mint Tiny House Company's Violet Edition – Scarlett Loft squeezes in three bedrooms, offering an impressive sleeping capacity of six – or even up to eight if a couple don't mind sleeping on a sofa bed.Continue ReadingCategory: Tiny Houses, LifestyleTags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home

Taking advantage of a unique public health policy in the UK, a new study has found that receiving the shingles vaccine reduces dementia risk by 20%. The findings bolster a growing body of research linking the vaccine to lower numbers of dementia cases.Continue ReadingCategory: Brain Health, Body & MindTags: Dementia, Shingles, Vaccines, Herpesvirus, Stanford University