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Zaha Hadid’s new City of Dreams project, with its elastic exterior and triangular interior treatments, is set to add another unique architectural structure to China's resume when it opens in 2017.

The US Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced the launch of a new atomic clock as the official standard for civilian time. Called NIST-F2, it is so accurate that it will lose only one second in 300 million years.

Although not as prestigious as the upcoming Formula-e series, the relatively new ZENN series does give teams a venue in which to put their electrics up against competing teams. Held in Monte-Carlo last month, the race saw Renault’s ZOE not only dominate, but sweep the series.

Dirty, noisy chains and dirty, fragile rear derailleurs are two features of modern mountain bikes that could certainly stand to be made obsolete. Well, the Cavalerie line of full-suspension MTBs does away with both, replacing them with a Gates Carbon belt drive and an Effigear gearbox.

Building on previous work, engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University have developed a tattoo-like epidermal electronic system for wireless health monitoring that uses off-the-shelf, chip-based electronics.

When we last heard about the modular snake robot designed by Carnegie Mellon University robotics professor Howie Choset, it had been used to explore an abandoned nuclear power plant. Now, however, a new line of robots based on it are set to explore something a little more confined – the human body.

Cinema Control Laboratories has come up with a system it calls Andra, which is like an incredibly advanced and configurable autofocus system for large sensor cameras with wide aperture lenses – and it’s already creating some beautiful footage that would be ridiculously hard to capture manually.

An international team of researchers has discovered a potential new use for discarded toilets, along with other ceramic waste such as basins, stoneware and bricks. It turns out that they can be made into a more eco-friendly form of cement.

Last week, Amazon unveiled its new streaming and gaming set-top box, the US$99 Fire TV. Not only does it stream TV and movies from Amazon, but it also includes popular apps like Netflix, has voice search, and is a nice gaming rig too. Here's a look at our experiences with the device.

On Tuesday, Bonhams auction house is selling a bumper crop of space exploration artifacts as part of its sixth annual Space History Sale in New York. The auction will see 296 lots of memorabilia from the US and Soviet space programs go on the block, including Mercury-era space suit.

Arrinera revealed its first supercar design in 2011 and immediately took criticism for putting out what looked like a Lamborghini with a different hood emblem. It went through a few redesigns, and this week it's pulled back the cloth on the final one: a 650-hp coupe it calls the Hussarya.

Since originating in New Zealand in 2009, the sport of trike drifting has spread to hilly regions all around the globe. Now, Arizona-based Local Motors has developed an electric-powered drift trike dubbed Verrado, which aims to extend this recreation to residents in flatter parts of the globe.