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​The International Space Station (ISS) had another setback today as a Russian Progress cargo ship was destroyed shortly after launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Russia's famous Trans-Siberian Railway links Moscow to the country's huge eastern areas and serves as a gateway to China, Mongolia, and North Korea. Those making the journey will soon have the option of taking a pitstop in some odd-looking ​new wooden cabins designed by UK firm Kamvari Architects.

When someone has a heart attack, their heart is permanently left with a section of non-beating scar tissue. Several groups are developing "heart patches" to help address the situation, the latest of which can be attached to the heart without the use of stitches.

The flexibility and experimentation that typifies tiny houses often encourages people to commission a project that suits their exact needs. This was the case with the Vintage Glam Tiny House, which has a motorized platform that reveals a bed, storage space, and more, at the flick of a switch.

​Last year, Sweden's Teenage Engineering launched a range of barebones electronic sound generators that were teeny enough to slide in a pocket. Jan Ostman has now managed to reduce the portable synth form factor to the size of a credit card, with an open source DIY project called the Tiny TS.

There are a few balls to juggle when building flagship headphones these days, and Bang & Olufsen has just revealed its first attempt at squeezing wireless listening and noise cancellation into the one set of premium over-ear cans, the Beoplay H9s.​

​​After getting its Boston Dynamic Atlas robot to perform a brief balancing act on a thin strip of ply earlier this year, the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition has loaded up a new algorithm that allows the bipedal bot to traverse tricky terrain.​

​Autonomous underwater vehicles are already both smaller and less expensive than manned submarines. A British consortium has recently taken that concept even further, though, unveiling two "microsubs" that are about one-third the size of most conventional AUVs.

New York-based Vanguard Motorcycles makes a spectacular debut with the Roadster, a massive, frameless nakedbike built around and upon a giant 1917cc v-twin engine. Its Starship Enterprise-style tail section houses an integrated rear view camera.

Fujifilm has announced a new mirrorless camera aimed at tempting smartphone photographers to upgrade to a dedicated shooter with the promise of better selfies. The interchangeable lens X-A10 features a 16-megapixel APS-C sensor, a tilting rear monitor, and a portrait enhancer mode.

Mention virtual reality ("VR") and you’ll likely elicit one of two responses: either utmost enthusiasm and awareness, or something along the lines of Homer Simpson yelling “Neeeeerd!” But VR deserves to occupy a more substantive niche on the mainstream public radar, and here’s why.

​With a pretty crowded launch manifesto and plans for deep space exploration, there are a few interested parties eyeing SpaceX's next move following the recent launchpad explosion that took out its Falcon 9 rocket. We've just gotten our clearest indication yet of what that will be.