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James Bruton is a serial crazy-contraption inventor, from a Lego longboard to a self-balancing mecanum-wheeled "Screw bike." Now he's done it again with might be the most bizarre, big-red-balled self-balancing electric bike with five motors to power

It is possible to load and run 14 Billion parameter llm AI models on Raspberry Pi5 with 16 GB of memory ($120).

Do you heat your house with wood? What to do with the ashes is a question for most. Obviously, you want to take great care to dispose of them in a way that won't start a fire, but did you know that the ashes have all sorts of uses?

Dutch company U-Boat Worx first proposed adding a new flagship undersea explorer to its range back in 2021. The design got a speed boost the following year, and now the first production Super Sub has been revealed. Described as "the most hydrodyna

As 3D-printed architecture continues to mature from niche proposition to disruptive technology, housing developments are beginning to roll out worldwide.

We've been following the journey of Cover, a Los Angeles-based prefab home builder, almost since their inception a decade ago.

We used to have to pause our fermented chicken feed system during the winter months as the temperatures dipped below freezing.

At a time when thousands of America's independent cattle farmers are going under each year, and herds falling to a 70-year low, one young couple believes they have found a way to save their family farm.

Shenzhen-based robotics company EngineAI developed a humanoid robot with a natural, human-like walking gait.

Six years on from the first iMicro smartphone microscope, the team has unveiled its latest: the iMicro Q3p, a fingertip-sized, lightweight device that makes microscopy inexpensive, portable and accessible to anyone with a camera on their phone.

If you're setting out to build an underwater robot that's speedy, maneuverable and versatile, why not just copy what already works in the natural world? That's exactly what China's Beatbot has done, with its bio-inspired Amphibious RoboTurtle.

So what are we tossing this into?

Peter Attia, MD, is the founder of Early Medical, a medical practice that applies the principles of Medicine 3.0 to patients with the goal of simultaneously lengthening their lifespan and increasing their health span

How many of us truly know the difference between grass- and grain-fed beef beyond its impact on our wallets?

Over the last seven years, The Seyfried Lab at Boston College designed and carried out detailed experiments to determine which fuels cancer cells rely on for energy production. December 2024 marked the culmination of this study when the paper was pub

Overcurrent Protection Test and Discussion, Tear Down

Donut Lab's new electric motor has a better power-to-weight ratio than Koenigsegg's Dark Matter motor, and is fully integrated into the wheel.

The world's largest consumer tech show kicks off this week, and San Diego's storied e-mobility startup Aptera is driving into CES 2025 for the first public showing of its production-intent solar electric vehicle, which has just been aero tweaked with

A sequence of stress signals among specialized clean-up cells in the brain could at last reveal why some immune responses can cause significant nerve degeneration that results in the loss of memory, judgement, and awareness behind Alzheimer's disease

There are a number of other great things that turmeric can do for us as a medicinal superfood and there's no way to talk about them all here. In fact, we've barely scratched the surface of what this amazing plant can do.

Outdoor Rated 8kW and 16kWh LiFePO4

The anti-aging amino acid taurine plays a role in energy production, assists in the processing of bile acids, and balances fluids, salt, and minerals.

It may open the door to new ways to treat and perhaps someday cure heart failure, the deadliest non-communicable disease on Earth. The results were published in the journal Circulation.

DMSO is a remarkably safe and naturally occurring substance (provided you use it correctly) that rapidly improves a variety of conditions medicine struggles with -- particularly chronic pain.

You don't need a Raspberry Pi any more! Re-use an obsolete mobile phone in electronics projects and program it like an Arduino.

This light tower has a Kubota 3-cylinder diesel engine D1005, with a 6kVA generator. Lets find out how many kWh we get per gallon of diesel in this fuel efficiency test.

Why in the world would I want to build a house with sandbags? I answer this question as well as discuss other alternative building methods in this video. Hyperadobe, Superadobe, Earthbags, Adobe....... they all have something in common: DIRT

I'm talking about technology that sounds like it's straight out of a Nikola Tesla fever dream, yet it's happening right now, and you won't believe it until you hear it all.

Mechanical load, not nerves, is critical for mammalian regeneration, offering new hope for human limb regeneration breakthroughs.

Oregano oil naturally contains a range of nutrients such as Vitamins A, C and E. It also provides the minerals iron, magnesium, boron, manganese, zinc and calcium.

In this video, I give you several tips and ways to top up your raised garden bed without using soil to create a great growing environment for your plants to thrive!

Scientists have succeeded in creating the world's first Carbon 14 diamond battery

That's one way to get the price below $30,000.

Billions of People Could Benefit from This Breakthrough in Desalination That Ensures Freshwater for the World

One of the things I love most about growing root crops is their ease of preservation. It might just be the FASTEST way to preserve food all winter long!

Have you heard James talking about "that RSS thing" but don't know how to start using it? Well, this episode of #SolutionsWatch is for you!

Just because the water looks clean doesn't mean it's safe to drink. According to the World Health Organization, millions of people die each year from contaminated water due to pathogens and bacteria.

The checkerboard patterns taking over the world, demystified.

The drones have a 600-mile range, can carry up to 550 pounds and are powered by batteries and sustainable aviation fuel

OTOY unveiled an all new non-commercial documentary that explores the making ofA 2001: A Space Odyssey and its lasting impact in the history of space exploration, artificial intelligence, and visual effects.

10 stories they chose not to tell you this week.

Homemade CNC Machine! (6 months of work in 8 minutes)

The SpaceX Starship 33 will be the first block 2 design. Block 2 will have more payload mass capacity. It will have a lower launch cost than the block 1 design. SpaceX Starship 33 should fly around January 11, 2025.

Researchers at Australia's Monash University are close to solving one of the biggest challenges with eVTOL aircraft.

The body has a remarkable ability to heal itself when injured, but of course it has its limits.

For the first time, researchers have discovered that the accumulation of aged and failing cells, called senescent cells, in one diseased organ can spread to multiple healthy organs, causing them to fail.

Adding another plus in the "nuts are good for you" column, new research shows that regular consumption of the superfood not only holds off death, but it also keeps the mind sharp and limits persistent disability. But age was a factor in the study.