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As scientists scramble to understand what the real-world implications are from the many novel mutations seen in Omicron, the new SARS-CoV-2 variant, both Pfizer and Moderna are racing to update their mRNA vaccines.

New research from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has identified a link between long COVID and chronic fatigue syndrome, adding to a growing understanding of the overlap between the two illnesses.

The hypothesis that gut health influences autism has been turned on its head by a new Australian study. Rather than playing a causal role, the study suggests these microbiome differences are the result of restricted diets associated with autism.

Perhaps you've got a Toyota Tacoma pickup with a cap on the back, and you'd like to sleep in there when camping, but the truck's cargo bed is just too short. Should that be the case, the Topper Tent may be for you.

Mammoth Overland launches an aerospace-inspired camping trailer that looks like it'd be as comfortable rolling over moon rock as hitched to a Tacoma. Here on Earth, its rugged build and full amenity suite combine into a cozy backcountry base camp.

Loki Basecamp introduced itself this year with the Falcon pickup camper. A beautiful product, the Falcon also wore a hefty six-figure price tag. With the new Icarus, Loki puts together a smaller, more affordable pickup-top overland micro-home.

Redukt has created a compact tiny house that opens up to the outside via large glazed doors installed on both sides of the home. It also runs off-the-grid and has a well thought-out interior layout that makes the most of the limited space available.

A lot of North American tiny houses are huge luxurious models. However, this off-grid tiny house by We Shelter People harkens back to the tiny house movement's roots by keeping things small and simple – and relatively affordable too.

How do you squeeze a bedroom into a compact tiny house, while still maintaining a well-proportioned living space? For its latest model, Build Tiny chose to not to bother, and instead equipped the off-grid dwelling with a space-saving elevating bed.

Hired to design a vacation home in an avocado field while leaving the field itself intact, Francisco Pardo Arquitecto decided on the radical plan of burying it. The resulting Avocado House blends into the landscape so well that it's barely visible.

Apple and Foster + Partners have co-designed a new Apple Store in The Grove shopping complex in Los Angeles, where customers enter through huge glass doors to a tree-lined light-filled retail space with a mirrored ceiling.

For its latest project, MVRDV turned a tired old factory in Shenzhen, China, into a bustling modern office. The building has been extended and modernized, and features a staircase running through it, offering access to a rooftop park.

Whether you buy your veggies from a farmer's market or at the grocery store, you need to give them a good wash when you get home. But how clean is clean enough? Help is at hand from an unexpected source in the shape of the PureGo PD100 from Asus.

We've already seen devices that allow users to create their own custom-color lipsticks and fingernail polish patterns. It should come as no surprise, then, that there's now a system for creating your own custom-scented perfume, whenever the mood strikes.

Audeze has launched its first non-headphone product on Indiegogo. The Filter portable personal conference speaker uses machine learning to cut out background noise on-the-fly, while its planar speaker tech delivers top notch audio to the user.

When a car crashes into a roadside object at an intersection, chances are pretty high that object will be a traffic light pole. If it's a new energy-absorbing pole, however, the likelihood of injury or even death may be significantly reduced.

If farmers know what sort of pest insects are present in their crops – and in what numbers – they can avoid excessive use of pesticides. The FarmSense system was created to provide that information, via a network of Smart Traps.

A wearable sensor for eye pressure sensing, a plastic scanner and new treatment solution for stab wounds have triumphed as global winners of the 2021 James Dyson Award, impressing judges as clever concepts designed to solve real-world problems.

Lego has been taking steps toward more sustainable practices and has just revealed the first prototype of its classic brick element crafted from recycled plastic that meets the company's quality and safety requirements.

By taking advantage of recent advances in smartphone technology and the infinite possibilities of Lego, scientists in Germany have built a cheap and easy high-resolution microscope that is part educational tool and part toy.

A Ferrari 330 P2 Junior by French coach-builder De La Chapelle sold for the astonishing world-record price of €110,000 (US$133,325) at an RM-Sotheby's auction in Paris on February 13.

New Atlas was at Snake River Canyon five years ago when Eddie Braun spectacularly finished the terrifying rocket bike jump that nearly killed Evel Knievel. The event is now a gorgeous documentary on Disney+, and we sat down with Braun to reminisce.

The artist Christo recently passed away at the age of 84. For decades, he and his wife Jeanne-Claude made headlines with their striking and provocative artworks, such as installing a giant orange curtain between two mountain slopes in Colorado.

After the death of Larry Tesler this week, New Atlas takes a brief look back at the invention of those now-ubiquitous computer commands: cut, copy and paste.

Just like our fingerprints, the shape and pattern of each dog's nose is unique to that animal. Bearing this in mind, pet food company Iams has launched a "nose-centric" app for identifying lost dogs – appropriately enough, it's called NOSEiD.

Earlier this year, we heard about a pet-entertaining/treat-dispensing robot known as Pumpkii. Although its crowdfunding campaign was cancelled, the similar Rocki is now available for purchase.

A new prototype Companion Collar smart collar is being developed by the CSIRO's digital specialist arm, Data61, and agtech company Ceres Tag that will allow pet owners to track their animal across both long and short distances.

A massive marine park entering its final phase of construction in the United Arab Emirates will invite visitors to enjoy an aquarium housing an astounding 68,000 marine animals once completed sometime next year.

Not content with boasting the world's tallest building, the world's largest mall and a host of other forward-thinking ventures that include flying taxis and firefighters with jetpacks, Dubai has now opened the deepest swimming pool in the world.

Known for expanding the boundaries of e-powered ocean navigation, Silent Yachts has turned to vacation resorts. By using its solarized electric catamarans as floating condos, it'd create seaside resorts that are light, flexible and ready to deploy.