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India's biggest eVTOL demonstrator just aced its flight tests

July 03, 2026 | Abhimanyu Ghoshal
India's eVTOL industry sees major progress as Sarla Aviation's Sylla 1.0 demonstrator has gone from the drawing board to mid-air in under a year, completing integrated flight testing for the ambitious company's upcoming air taxi.

Boris reviews the BMW R 1300 R Performance Auto: 'I'm just wired wrong'

July 03, 2026 | 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.

Charming house built from the bones of its own colonial-era ruin

July 03, 2026 | Stefan Ionescu
In Kotagiri, India, Meister Varma Architects has built the three-volume Shilaya house using stone salvaged from a collapsed colonial cottage on site, adding a prefabricated steel structure above it.

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The Burleigh 9.6 hits the sweet spot between too cramped for comfort and too large to tow, with a spacious layout that includes two bedrooms and a remarkably luxurious bathroom, making it well suited to full-time living.
The Springbrook 7.2 by Removed Tiny Homes does an impressive job of maximizing a compact footprint. Packed with space-saving features, the towable tiny house looks a lot more livable than its modest dimensions imply.
Admit it: for the longest time, you've wanted an adult-sized tricycle you can ride around town while standing. Halfbike has been making that dream come true for more than a decade, and it's now got a souped-up three-wheeler to take you places.
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.
Bürstner wowed the RV world last year when it introduced its Signature series of compact motorhomes with transforming spaces. The company grows the series this year with a larger, more luxurious version based on the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter.
After a couple years of fast growth in the ultralight freestanding tent market, 2026 has been rather quiet. But a new player shatters the silence with an impressive solo freestander that drops in around 2 lb ... at half the price of some competitors.

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As some 150 million Americans dig into a hot dog on the July 4 weekend, physicians have uncovered how little we actually know about the health risks of this kind of processed meat. In fact, close to 90% of US adult surveyed poorly informed.
A wave of unregulated peptides is sweeping the wellness world and now crossing into the mainstream. But concern is growing about side effects, and almost nobody is asking whether these substances impact men and women in the same way.
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.
A new review presents comprehensive and convincing research that ties common sugar substitutes to metabolic disturbances that begin in the gut and then flow throughout the body. It also highlights issues of food-label transparency in the US.
New research from Harvard Medical School has overturned the traditional picture of the nose's neurons, finding a hidden cartography in the seeming randomness.
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.

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A slab of limestone excavated in 1984 from the ancient Coriovallum settlement presented a puzzle for researchers of Roman history. Because of its grooves, the stone piece looked like a board game. More than 40 years on, we may have the rulebook.
The Mysa 400 by Irontown Modular is an extra-wide tiny house that features an apartment-style interior with a spacious living area, two bedrooms, and an open design that's suited to full-time living.
After leaving the competition scrambling with the launch of a powerful ebike drive system in 2024, DJI brand Avinox is set to do it all again with a second-generation flavor designed to beat every rival on power, torque, and weight.
Bürstner has teased some impressive new vehicle debuts ahead of the world's largest RV show. Among them, the Signature series subtly deletes the division between camper van and motorhome with a sleek, semi-integrated body and transformable interior.
The Artemis II mission, which will return US astronauts to lunar space, has run into problems that have critics demanding NASA remove the crew from the flight for safety reasons. The bigger question is, why do we have astronauts at all?
A nuclear production facility in Washington state, called the Hanford site, once forged the plutonium that reshaped the world. Now it’s forging glass; a quiet act of undoing at one of Earth’s most contaminated sites.
The ambitious Pinnacle SkyTower has reached a major milestone. The supertall skyscraper has topped out at 106 floors and now holds the record for the most floors of any residential building in North America.
The first aceclidine-based eye drop to improve near vision in adults with age-related presbyopia, which affects more than 100 million adults in the US alone, has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration and will be on sale by November.