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Although they're perfectly legal in Europe, a law from 1968 means laser lights can't be fitted to American cars without being heavily modified. The R8 V10 Plus Exclusive Edition is the first Audi to sport US-friendly laser headlamps, packed in with a list of upgrades to the standard R8 package.

​Ever since Henri Becquerel noticed that certain minerals blurred photograph plates, radiation has fascinated and frightened the public. To clear away the fog in the cloud chamber, New Atlas looks at the truth about radiation in our everyday lives.

Having won the last four world championships, Volkswagen has pulled the pin on its WRC program. The decision comes just a week after Audi ended its involvement in the WEC, and signals a renewed push within the wider Volkswagen Group toward "upcoming technologies" and electric power.

This year the tally of known near-Earth asteroids and comets passed 15,000 and more are being discovered, like asteroid 2016 VA, which buzzed our planet Wednesday just a day after it was first spotted.

SpaceX is hopeful it will resume launches of its Falcon 9 rocket by the end of the year as it narrows down the possible causes of the explosion​ on September 1 that destroyed the booster and its AMOS-6 satellite payload.

The UK's Roli has taken the MPE MIDI technology at the heart of its Seaboard instruments – which allows players to control parameters like pitch, timbre and volume within each note – and cooked it into a highly portable, modular music studio system called Roli Blocks.

​Samsung has announced a new line of mobile accessories will soon be available around the world. The line includes a bottle-shaped speaker and LED lamp, an induction charging pad, a range of portable battery packs, a USB LED light, a scoop-shaped wireless speaker and a pair of rectangular earbuds.

Escape has followed up its Vista and Vista Go with a new model based on the same basic design. Dubbed Vista Sport, it's the firm's smallest and most affordable towable dwelling to date.

It was thought that after crossing from Africa, 10,000 years passed before aboriginal Australia took up more sophisticated tools and settled into the country's harsh arid interior, but a new study has revealed they wasted very little time at all.

MIT and NASA researchers are developing a new type of "morphing" wing that, rather than using conventional flaps, changes its shape. Made up of overlapping strips that could be assembled by small robots, resulting aircraft would be simpler to build, use less fuel, and boast improved agility.

​​The optical and science segment of the largest space telescope ever made now stands complete in the largest clean room on the planet, at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The James Webb Space Telescope is now poised to undergo rigorous pre-flight testing ahead of its 2018 launch.

One trait that's gone largely ignored by the A-list smartphone makers is Hi-Fi audio. LG’s end-of-year flagship, the V20, can not only deliver truly remarkable headphone sound; it also stands as a well-rounded smartphone powerhouse.