The UK’s best new homes: Sustainable, smart, and superbly designed

RIBA has revealed the 2022 House of the Year longlist, which shines a light on a wide range of impressive UK homes, including a Passivhaus-rated residence, an energy efficient house built for a retiree, and a family home built from a disused barn.

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AGV Tourmodular flip-face helmet has zero dynamic weight on the highway

AGV's ultra-lightweight Sportmodular helmet is still my all-time favorite flip-face brain bucket, and the company has backed it up with a more affordable Tourmodular lid focused on longer rides, with the option to add an integrated Cardo comms unit.

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A brief history of the Higgs boson, the Holy Grail of physics

This month marks the 10th anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson. But what exactly is this particle, and why is it so important? What has it taught us in the last decade – and more importantly, what could it teach us in the next decade?

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Bizzare “Aquatic Utility Vehicle” puts a UTV cabin on two jet ski legs

Whatever's in the water down in Florida, we want some. As ridiculously awesome as it is awesomely ridiculous, the Shadow Six Typhoon places a UTV body on top of a pair of high-performance jet skis, creating the world's first "aquatic utility vehicle."

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WAF shortlist highlights the world’s finest new architecture

Big, small, expensive and affordable – almost every conceivable type of building features in this year's World Architecture Festival WAF shortlist, which offers a superb opportunity to take stock of the current state of architecture around the globe.

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Triumph wraps up testing of the TE-1 electric prototype on a high note

The final phase of the TE-1 project put the working prototype through testing for the first time, managing results that uphold initial claims of game-changing tech, but a production electric motorcycle from Triumph is unlikely to come any time soon.

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Switzerland’s autonomous underground cargo system aims for 2031 debut

A lot less technologically optimistic than the Hyperloop-TT Hyperport project, Cargo Sous Terrain looks considerably more likely to happen, with its first 10-stop, 70-km (43-mile) series of underground tunnels scheduled to begin taking cargo in 2031.

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James Webb vs Hubble: Side-by-side comparisons highlight visual gains

By now you’ve no doubt seen the first batch of images from NASA’s powerful new James Webb Space Telescope. But the scope of the achievement is hard to appreciate without context, so here they are side-by-side with Hubble’s views of the same regions.

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Ford AWD camper van cranks up next-level versatility and autonomy

Grit Overland raises the bar on floor plan flexibility. It uses virtually every trick we've seen (and some we haven't) to get the most out of every inch of an off-grid Ford Transit camper van ready to transport, sleep, feed and power up the family.

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Another study ties Alzheimer’s progression to bacteria in your mouth

A common type of oral bacteria associated with periodontal disease has been linked to neuroinflammation and the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. The research builds on a prior evidence linking poor oral health with dementia and neurodegeneration.

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