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Singapore's Kampung Admiralty has won the 2018 World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival. Designed by WOHA, it meets the needs of elderly people in a safe and green environment.

If you need a hand entertaining over the holidays, Stella Artois has a suggestion. The company has come up with its Bartending Automated Robotic Technology (BART), which converts a robotic vacuum into a drinks- and snacks-toting bartender that can both serve guests and clean up simultaneously.

The Singapore-based designers behind the Ember Stove aren’t ones to complicate things, taking to Kickstarter with a compact two-piece cooking solution designed to slide into your pocket and fire up with just a handful of twigs.

​​Less than a week has passed since NASA’s Insight spacecraft settled into its dusty landing site on the surface of Mars, but the intrepid science laboratory has already claimed a new record for power generation on the Red Planet. ​

New Atlas spent the bulk of last week attending the 2018 LA Auto Show. The show was fairly low-key, but it still had its fair share of big car debuts and appearances, bringing together over a century of automotive design.

​​A new report highlighting the grim threat posed by climate change to human health has estimated that in 2015 almost 3 million lives ended prematurely as a result of ambient air pollution, and that millions more living in cities - including the elderly - are at risk from extreme temperatures.

Replicas of famous paintings are routinely created with printers that use only four inks – cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. RePaint, a new technique developed at MIT, combines artificial intelligence, 3D printing, and a rich 10-ink palette for much more faithful results in any lighting condition.

It's easy to take web access for granted, but in many regions getting online isn't as simple as just opening up a browser window. Now Chinese firm LinkSure Network has announced a system of satellites to be launched by 2026, which it wants to provide internet access across the globe, free of charge.

​In the distant past, all whales had teeth. Now, some feed using baleen instead. A new analysis of previously-discovered fossils has provided a fresh insight into the evolution of that baleen, suggesting that for a while, some whales simply sucked down their food.

​Cargo bikes may be handy for schlepping stuff around, but they're also rather long and ungainly to park, store, or use as regular commuters. That's why German product design student David Maurer-Laube created the Convercycle – it's a standard-length e-bike that folds out to haul cargo.

On Wednesday Chinese scientist He Jiankui took to the stage amidst a maelstrom of controversy surrounding his recent revelation of creating the world’s first genetically edited babies. As He announced pride in his work, the Chinese government called it “shocking and unacceptable.”

To those of a certain age, the Commodore 64 is synonymous with 80s gaming. Lego, on the other hand, is a little-known children's toy from the southern reaches of Scandinavia. Perhaps inevitably, someone has thought to marry the two, resulting in The Brixty Four.