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A piece of history has gone down at the Monteblanco racetrack in Spain, with the world's first fully autonomous car race completed last week. Two teams pitted code and cars against one another, with Team Arrival beating out the Technical University of Munich to take the first ever Roborace win.

​Many workers are now leaving the car at home and commuting by bike. Little wonder then that the auto and bicycle worlds often merge for two wheel designs. Back in February, General Motors launched its first folding e-bikes, and now a former Jaguar Land Rover engineer has unveiled the Flit-16.​

​​The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has released a video showing the climactic moments of the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft’s second descent to the surface of asteroid Ryugu, which took place on July 11, 2019.

Electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve holds all kinds of possibilities in medical science, and scientists have now added another to the list by demonstrating how targeting it through the ear could help slow some of the effects of aging. ​

NASA’s TESS mission has been very busy lately, making many exoplanet discoveries. Now, the productive little satellite has made another important discovery – the closest super-Earth that’s potentially habitable.

​Commonly known as Paneer dodi, the herb Withania coagulans has been used in traditional Indian medicine for many years now – among other things, it is claimed to help control diabetes. A new study shows that it indeed may do so, particularly when it's ingested within special capsules.

From the "why the hell not" files: the Indian team is hitting this year's Sturgis rally with a sidecar outfit we're sure will be popular. It's a custom-built Springfield Darkhorse with a big ol' BBQ for a sidecar. Your roadkill will never taste so fresh.

Denver-based company Sträva revealed it has begun developing tea and coffee products infused with microdoses of psilocybin. Following the recent decriminalization measure passed in the city of Denver, Sträva suggests it could reach the market with psilocybin coffee within two years.

Crosscamp seeks to extend city dwellers' footprints into mountains, beaches and forests, with a compact camper van of the same name. Based on the Toyota Proace Verso, the sub-5-m van transports, sleeps and feeds four people, readily switching over to a cargo van or seven-seat people-mover.

​For several years now, we've been hearing about "microneedle patches" that deliver medication less painfully and more safely than hypodermic needles. A new take on the technology may allow them to work even better, by copying the structure of venomous snakes' fangs.

When Triumph first introduced the Rocket ΙΙΙ in 2004, its 2.3-liter engine set a benchmark in the world of mass-produced motorcycles. The British motorcycle manufacturer has now upped the ante with an even bigger three-cylinder engine in two newly unveiled variants, the R and GT.

Though folding e-scooters are nothing new, you generally have to carry them about in your hands between rides. The MiniFalcon has been designed to be collapsed down in three steps and stowed away in its own ukulele-sized backpack.