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DragonFire laser weapon takes down high-speed drones

Britain's DragonFire laser weapon upped the ante on November 20 at the Ministry of Defence's Hebrides Range in Scotland when the high-powered, solid-state laser for the Royal Navy shot down [...]

Tiny house sauna lets you get your sweat on wherever you can park it

The tiny house movement has never just been about, well, houses, and it has produced all kinds of weird and wonderful structures on wheels – everything from a pub to [...]

Fluoride and the brain: Largest US study ever unearths surprise new link

In the first US study looking at whether the recommended fluoride levels in drinking water affects brain function, researchers have found that the hot-button mineral has no negative impacts on [...]

Electrode 'sponge' affordably recaptures lithium from spent batteries

While lithium extraction technologies generally focus on ways to get the essential metal out of the ground, there's another source to mine: existing batteries that no longer work. A new [...]

Reinvented Leathermans to Swiss Army skeletons: 2025's best multitools

After a rather slow year in multitools that saw us bring knives into the mix in 2024, 2025 saw more multitool debuts than we could keep up with. Many of [...]