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Variable Valve Timing isn’t a newfound concept in motorcycle engines. The likes of BMW and Yamaha have been using this setup in their motorcycles. Now, Suzuki appears to be working on a similar system, likely to tackle more stringent emission requirements.

A recent study in Denmark looked at whether a single dose of psilocybin could help people reduce their alcohol intake – and the results from the small trial are quite promising. However, they might also warrant greater scrutiny.

In a perfect world, everything you try to clamp in a vise would have straight sides. The world isn't perfect, though, which is where the Tivise comes in. It's a fractal vise with jaws that adapt to the unique shape of whatever's placed inside it.

More than a decade ago, a startup launched on Kickstarter to fund an automated guitar tuner called the Roadie. Now the company has returned to the platform with the smarter, faster, smoother and more powerful fourth generation.

Teenage Engineering has put its unique stamp on budget and high-end audio gear over the years, but has also ventured outside of its box on occasion. The latest example of that is an electric moped/scooter called the epa-1, developed with Vässla.

Talk about thinking small: researchers at Harvard University have devised a new way to implant flexible bioelectronic devices in the embryos of frogs, mice, and lizards, enabling them to monitor brain activity as these creatures develop.

PDFs were designed by demons. The file is “locked,” Adobe wants your money, and that one page you need to rotate? Forget it. Rather than shed tears over documents, simplify the process with an affordable, easy-to-use PDF editor like SwifDoo.

Researchers have identified a protein that represses the activity of energy-burning brown fat. The discovery opens the door to developing treatments for the extreme weight loss, muscle wasting, and malnutrition seen in some types of cancer.

The company best known for churning out affordable smartphones and other consumer electronics – that may or may not be reporting back to the CCP – just made the fastest electric sedan on the planet to lap the famed Nürburgring Nordschleife racetrack.