Features of the week
RVs and MotorhomesAdventure VehiclesOutdoors
Winnebago's affordable new B+ camper looks to hook newbs on RV life
by C.C. Weiss
Growing its lineup of compact, agile small motorhomes, Winnebago has launched the Elora/Resa. The single motorhome with two names targets first-time RVers, piling up details that make transitioning to RV life as intuitive as driving a new car.
Outdoors
Go-anywhere survival pod fends off bullets, bombings and worse
by Omar Kardoudi
French startup Momentum Technologies has unveiled LifePods, portable capsules built for real-world disaster response. Shown at VivaTech and Eurosatory 2026, they're designed to survive gunfire, blasts, fires, floods, and tsunamis.
Tiny HousesOutdoors
XL tiny house provides small living without sacrificing comfort
by Adam Williams
How large does a tiny house have to get before it's no longer a tiny house? The Shoreline must be getting close, offering a spacious interior that delivers single-floor living without sacrificing comfort.
MotorcyclesTransport
Boris reviews the BMW R 1300 R Performance Auto: 'I'm just wired wrong'
by Boris Mihailovic
There's nothing wrong with BMW's excellent high-performance automatic transmission... Unless you're a couple million miles deep into your motorcycling journey and hard-wired to panic if you start grabbing thin air with your clutch hand.
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Top Stories: Transport
$5,000 LiveWire mini electric motos are here to bring back the fun
by Utkarsh Sood
The LiveWire Honcho Trail and Street aren't fast. They don't pack revolutionary battery tech. And they're not going to embarrass a sportbike at the traffic lights. Instead, they ask an important question: What if having fun is enough?
A shelved '60s sketch just became a 400-hp carbon-fiber roadster
by Abhimanyu Ghoshal
While the Italian marque built limited runs of a handful of beautiful performance machines in the 1960s, Bizzarrini never got around to making an open-top version of its 5300 GT – until now. Feast your eyes on the Aperta Lusso.
Canyon’s new ebike puts serious V2X safety smarts on 2 wheels
by Maryna Holovnova
While cars are getting more advanced safety technologies, bikes seem to be left out of this trend. Canyon is aiming to change that by implementing an automotive safety communication system from cars in its new e-bike.
Students fly high with new world record for largest paper plane
by Omar Kardoudi
A team of students in Pisa has turned the humble paper airplane into a full-blown engineering project. ICARUS didn’t just look hugely impressive on the ground, it flew far enough to earn a Guinness World Record.
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Top stories: Body & Mind
Lifespan-extending human trial to rejuvenate old and tired immune cells
by Bronwyn Thompson
A landmark study is due to start in the coming months, and if successful it could ultimately revive our immune system in older age and even treat chronic illnesses like autoimmune disease. The Phase 1 trial is aiming to rejuvenate senescent T cells.
We can now watch microplastics moving through our bodies
by Kerry Taylor-Smith
Researchers are using a laser-based imaging technique to map these tiny particles deep within the tissues of mice without surgery. This offers a fresh perspective on how microplastics move through the body and their long-term effects on human health.
One factor can age your brain faster – and you can do something about it
by Mike McRae
Glucose levels have been linked with the accelerated aging of the human brain in a new study by researchers in China, highlighting the benefits of healthy eating and exercise early in life to keep your brain fighting fit in old age.
Cystic fibrosis doesn’t just affect the lungs. It’s a gut disease too
by The Conversation
For decades, lung disease has been the most visible and life-threatening part of cystic fibrosis – but this isn't the whole story. Cystic fibrosis is also a gastrointestinal disease, affecting the gut and organs including the pancreas and liver.
Top Stories: Outdoor
Park model tiny house provides apartment-style living on a single floor
by Adam Williams
Some tiny houses seem to prioritize portability over comfort, but the Apex takes the opposite approach. It trades mobility for a spacious single-floor layout that's closer to an apartment than a traditional tiny house.
Review: I kicked myself out of my house to test the Jackery Explorer
by Mike McRae
Should anybody trust my opinion on tiny portable power stations? That’s up to you. But when Jackery asked New Atlas to put its Explorer 1000 v2 and accompanying 100-W solar panel to the test, I saw an opportunity to take my office out into the wild.
Tiny, bladeless magnetic multitool flips its feature set inside out
by Maryna Holovnova
If you’re tired of improvising a stand for your phone every time you want to watch a movie on a flight, make a video call, or cook while following a recipe, a new multitool on Kickstarter might solve this problem.
Clever trapdoor camping fridge keeps ice-cold drinks milliseconds away
by C.C. Weiss
Iceco's new VL45 Plus combines the advantages of top-loading and door fridges via a triple-access system that all but eliminates the need for a separate slide costing hundreds. It also boasts vacuum insulation and a slap-on magnetic battery.
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Top Stories: Technology
Google gets creative with AI recycling
by Etiido Uko
Every year, billions of phones are discarded with their processors intact. Meanwhile, the AI sector spends billions on new chips at high environmental costs. Google is developing a way to bridge these two realities with a server made from old phones.
Tank 5 is part rugged phone, part projector, part campsite toolbox
by Monica J. White
8849’s Tank 5 is a 25-oz rugged Android phone with a 2K DLP projector, 17,600-mAh battery, night-vision camera, camping light and impressive specs, but its bulk and price may be as striking as its feature list.
Review: Fridge smart planner doubles as ultra-slim kitchen media center
by Bronwyn Thompson
Whether you're living solo and constantly battling food spoiling in the fridge, or have a household of humans to organize on a daily basis, this smart fridge calendar and planner might be able to make life that bit easier.
Robotic bird could fix drones' biggest aerodynamic problem
by Omar Kardoudi
Researchers from Australia and the UK have built a robotic kestrel to decode how birds handle turbulence. Their findings reveal a suite of wing-and-tail tricks that could reshape the next generation of small drones.
Top Stories: Science
Breakthrough: Scientists made a living cell from scratch. Then it reproduced
by Mike McRae
Scientists from the University of Minnesota have taken a monumental step toward understanding the process of abiogenesis by piecing together their own organic cell and watching it divide in two.
Daddy longlegs seen catching and eating frogs in astonishing first
by Jay Kakade
Daddy longlegs, also called harvestmen, have been documented catching and consuming living frogs larger than themselves in South American rainforests. All without the use of venom.
Plasma jet is captured in 'most detailed X-ray view ever'
by Chris Young
In April 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration made history with the first-ever image of a black hole – an object that, until then, had never been directly observed by humanity. Turns out that was just the beginning of breakthroughs.
The poop emoji hides a deeper truth about physics, study reveals
by Kerry Taylor-Smith
Why does the "poop emoji" look the way it does? Physics has the answer: as most animals defecate downward, each new coil falls a shorter distance, naturally forming the familiar tapered swirl.
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