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This ingenious tiny house is almost like two homes in one
4 December 2025 @ 12:33 pm
The Yamabiko is small, even by tiny house standards. Yet despite its modest length of 6.6 m (21.6 ft), this clever model somehow manages to squeeze in not just one but two separate layouts, each mirroring the other and sharing a single bathroom.Continue ReadingCategory: Tiny Houses, OutdoorsTags: Micro-House, Vitamin C shields lung cells from common air-pollution damage
4 December 2025 @ 4:18 am
Vitamin C may offer meaningful protection against one of the world's invisible but pervasive health threats – fine-particle air pollution. New research has found that the common antioxidant can significantly reduce the lung inflammation and cellular damage caused by everyday, low-level exposure to PM2.5.Continue ReadingCategory: Diet & Nutrition, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and MindFuturistic dome grows food by itself – with help from some fish
4 December 2025 @ 3:20 am
Inspired by the humble old greenhouse, a futuristic self-contained food ecosystem was recently on display at Expo 2025 Osaka-Kansai in Japan, offering us a glimpse at a how we might one day have "farm to table" on our apartment block rooftops or in small urban spaces. Think of it as a tiny house of produce.Continue ReadingCategory: Architecture, TechnologyTags: Japan, Expo, Gordon Murray S1 LM becomes most expensive new car sold at auction
4 December 2025 @ 2:28 am
Twenty million, six hundred and thirty thousand US dollars. That’s how much the Gordon Murray S1 LM supercar sold for, officially garnering the highest sale price for a new car sold at auction, excluding charity lots.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags: Gordon Murray, Oldest RNA ever found in an ancient woolly mammoth leg
4 December 2025 @ 12:03 am
Scientists have sequenced RNA from a nearly 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth leg, the oldest ancient RNA ever recovered. These fragile molecules could reveal which genes were active in the animal’s final hours and what was happening inside the animal’s muscles when it died.Continue ReadingCategory: Biology, ScienceTags: DNA, RNA, Laser-analyzing exoskeleton adapts performance to the terrain ahead
3 December 2025 @ 10:00 pm
After years of exoskeletons built primarily for medical, workforce and military applications, the recreational sport exoskeleton is really having its marketable moment. The newest take on the technology, the Irmo M1 brings what's billed as a "world first" tweak, a multi-sensor AI system that automatically adjusts output based on the terrain ahead. It's like an adaptive automotive suspension, only for legs instead of wheels.Continue ReadingCategory: Gear, World's first biodegradable coffin made of mushrooms
3 December 2025 @ 8:30 pm
The business of paying respect to the dead can be an eco-unfriendly matter, whether opting for a wooden coffin that contributes to deforestation, or a cremation service that produces carbon emissions. Instead, Dutch firm Loop Biotech has found a way to save forests and reduce CO2 emissions with the Loop Living Cocoon, the world’s first mushroom-based casket.Continue ReadingCategory: Environment, Science16,000 dinosaur tracks uncover the largest moment of ancient life
3 December 2025 @ 7:01 pm
The extent of an incredible dinosaur highway has been revealed in Bolivia, a country where actual skeletal fossils are rare. More than 16,000 footprints, along with tail impressions from creatures of all sizes, have been fully documented – and the scale of theropod activity alone is unlike anything that's been seen before.Continue ReadingCategory: Biology, ScienceTags: Geology'World's first' sodium-ion flashlight shines bright even at -40 ºF
3 December 2025 @ 2:15 pm
Okay, so you know how it absolutely sucks when you're exploring the polar icecaps and your flashlight craps out at sub-zero temperatures because it's simply too cold? Your batteries might be to blame – and the solution might be an alternative to conventional lithium-ion cells.Continue ReadingCategory: OutdoorsTags: Review: $59 owl watches your cat's habits and could help save their life
3 December 2025 @ 11:57 am
If you’ve ever wished your cat could tell you when something’s wrong – especially with kidneys, digestion or the bladder – the SiiPet LitterLens might be the closest thing we’ve got to that. And peace of mind comes at only US$59 in December.Continue ReadingCategory: Consumer Tech, TechnologyTags: Pets, Pet-owners,