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The pickup camper innovators at Leentu are moving away from pricy carbon fiber and on to more affordable aluminum. The Leentu Sunzal maintains a low weight but comes in well under the price of the Carbon Camper, providing a more economical way of turning a pickup into an adventure vessel.

Evolution helps life adapt to new environments – and now scientists have uncovered a rare occasion where it got a second chance. About 136,000 years ago, a flightless bird on an island in the Indian Ocean was wiped out, only to re-evolve itself back into existence tens of thousands of years later.

Blue Origin has unveiled a multi-purpose lunar lander called Blue Moon and declares that it will be able to return astronauts to the Moon by 2024. At an invitation-only media event in Washington DC on Thursday, Blue Origin founder and CEO Jeff Bezos showed off a full-scale mock-up of the lander.

Lately we're seeing some imaginative ways to let hammocks stand on their own. The aptly named Hang Solo is the latest of these to cross our desk, and uses a lightweight frame to suspend one's existing hammock in just about any location.

Visitors to The Dali Museum will now be greeted by a digitally resurrected simulation of Salvador Dali. Created using machine learning and deepfake technologies, this digital Dali is programmed to communicate in novel ways from commenting on the day’s weather to taking a selfie with museum patrons.

​Signal Snowboards notes the integral role that music plays in boarding, and has previously demonstrated its love for mixing the two in cardboard with a snowboard and a Stratocaster guitar fashioned from the packaging material. Now the company has made a working drum kit using cardboard.​

If you're planning a drive across the Mojave Desert in Southern California, prepare yourself for a serious dose of vast, hot, dry nothingness ... and tanks.

An intriguing study suggests there is a direct causative link between a high-fat diet and the development of depression. The research demonstrates how certain dietary fats can enter the brain, disrupt specific signaling pathways in the hypothalamus, and subsequently induce signs of depression.

A few weeks before going Savage with the VW Crafter, Mclaren Sport Homes was performing some of its first camper van conversions on the gen-3 Sprinter. Its updated Shadow capitalizes on the latest Mercedes tech, adding a cozy, sealed-off interior with space to sleep, cook, freshen and relax.

A rare collection of props, costumes, and other materials from the science fiction classic Forbidden Planet will go on auction at Bonhams in Los Angeles this week. It's part of a larger collection of fantasy of general memorabilia from the estate of collector Wes Shank, who passed away in 2018.

The hummingbird's ability to hover and make sharp turns could teach drones a thing or two. Now researchers at Purdue University have managed to do just that, building a hummingbird-inspired drone and teaching it to fly using algorithms trained on the birds’ natural flight patterns.

We're not dead set against painfully expensive electric motorcycles. There's a price to be paid for supporting builders who strive to push the game forward. But the hideously expensive second-gen Lito Sora takes this Canadian electric motorcycle in a very disappointing direction.