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The US Navy has completed testing of its Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS); clearing it for use on the new Gerald R Ford-class aircraft carriers. Under development for over 25 years, EMALS is the first new carrier catapult technology in 60 years to advance to practical application.

If you're ever short a pair of dice and an online alternative won't do, you need no longer despair. Maker firm Intridea has created a real-world, internet-connected dice roller that can be operated via Twitter. DiceBot will roll the dice when prompted and then respond with a picture of your score.

Volkswagen has revealed more details of the vehicle it will use in the Red Bull Global Rallycross championship later this season. With 544 hp (405 kW) from its 1.6-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine, the GRC Beetle is little more than a distant relative from your grandma's Beetle.

The Renzo Piano Building Workshop has designed a striking new home for the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé in Paris. The building is a striking, curved structure that sits snugly between two others. It retains the preserved façade of an older building, which is decorated with sculptures by Rodin.

Researchers at the University of East Anglia (UAE) in England have uncovered an Achille's heel in the cell defenses of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that could mean the bacteria wouldn't develop drug-resistance in the first place.

Once Edmonton, Canada's new Waste-to-Biofuels Facility starts converting garbage into methanol and ethanol, it will be the world's first industrial-scale facility to do so. We recently got a guided tour of the place.

When building a new family home in Ho Chi Min City, Vietnamese firm Vo Trong Nghia Architects brought a little of the countryside to the bustling metropolis.

Liposuction may be a popular method of instant body fat reduction, but it certainly isn't perfect. Two researchers, however, are developing what could be a better form of liposuction, that involves first using injected gold microparticles to melt the fat.

Gizmag borrowed Cadillac's first extended range electric vehicle based off the Chevrolet Volt for a few days and found it to be a strange combination of underrated, but perhaps still overpriced.

The 14th Venice Architecture Biennale is a tribute to building elements and invention, but it's also a meditation on modernity that morphs, in the "Monditalia" exhibit, into a performance piece. While some critics have raved about Koolhaas' holistic vision, others are a bit more circumspect.

LeapFrog has updated its line-up of tablets for kids with the LeapPad 3 and LeapPad Ultra XDi. But will the new devices be enough to pry your child away from your smart devices?

Mercedes has revealed what the updated CLS four-door coupe will look like, and is packing some interesting tech into the new car, including a 9-speed automatic gearbox and tricky LED headlamps.