New research has found that mindfulness meditation reduces pain by engaging a distinct brain pathway, separate from the pathway activated by a placebo. The standalone analgesic effect that mindfulness produces could be leveraged to help people living with painful conditions. Category: Health & Wellbeing, Lifestyle Tags: Pain, university-of-california-san-diego, Meditation ..read more

Nobody likes washing dishes, but they keep piling up. The new Capsule Solo portable dishwasher from Loch Electronics is designed to make short work of that chore even while camping. Category: Around The Home, Lifestyle Tags: Dishwasher, Dishwashers, Appliances, Kitchen, Camping, Portable, Kickstarter ..read more

SpaceX founder Elon Musk says that the first of his company's Starship spacecraft will set off for Mars in two years and the first crewed missions will follow in 2028. He sees this as part of his plan to make humanity an interplanetary species. Category: Space, Science Tags: Elon Musk, SpaceX, Starship, Mars ..read more

So a diffusion model, denoising data, peak signal-to-noise-ratio, RL-agent, autoregressive model, and thermodynamics walk into a bar ... And now we can play the 1993 cult-classic first-person shooter, DOOM, generated in real-time by AI. Category: Technology Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Game, Video Games ..read more

Solar eclipses don’t just look cool – they can send gravity waves rippling through Earth’s atmosphere like dropping a stone in a pond. An international team of students has measured these gravity waves for the first time. Category: Science Tags: NASA, Atmosphere, Weather, ECLIPSE, Balloon, Earth ..read more

While being a night owl has a certain cachet, a new study shows that staying up into the wee hours can be downright dangerous. The late-night lifestyle was shown to dramatically raise diabetes risk and cause several other health-damaging effects. Category: Health & Wellbeing, Lifestyle Tags: Sleep, Sleeping, Diabetes, Night-time, Leiden University, Weight, Obesity ..read more

Italy's Mobilvetta is exploring the future of RVing with a concept it calls Fluideen. Something of a mini-jungle on wheels, the design study looks to seamlessly blend the natural with the technological, bringing in innovations like electrochromatic privacy glass, fragrance-diffusing composite wallpaper and electric-retractable furniture and appliances. Category: Automotive, Transport Tags: dusseldorf-caravan-salon-2024, Motorhome, Motorhomes, Concept Vehicle, RV, Camping, Outdoors and Camping ..read more

Akaso's Seemor 200 night-vision scope uses AI to blur the dividing line between color day imaging and infrared black-and-white night imaging. We waited for sundown and put one through its paces. Here's what we found. Category: Technology Tags: Reviews, Night Vision, Binoculars, Colors, Cameras ..read more

The winners of the sixth annual Minimalist Photography Awards have been announced. These stunning images span 12 categories that capture the beauty and wonder in simplicity. Category: Photography, Technology Tags: Photo, Photographers, Minimalist, Awards, Art, Gallery, Images ..read more

Slicing huge cruise ships in half, then welding in an extra segment to lengthen them, is more or less a license to print money for cruise operators – so this 'jumboization' surgery is becoming very common. Let's take a look at how it's done. Category: Marine, Transport Tags: Engineering, Cruise, Ships, Crazy, Luxury ..read more