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"Transient electronics" are designed to degrade in the presence of environmental triggers such as heat, light or moisture, once they've served their purpose. Now, scientists have created a battery for such devices, that falls apart along with them when exposed to water.​

​​Pretty much all of us have them – the forgotten clothes that we never wear. They really should be sent to charity, if only we could remember to do so. That's why a group at Birmingham City University has created what it calls the "Internet of Clothes."

Samsung's Galaxy Note 7​ may have a name that's two generations ahead of last year's Note 5​, but its practical and aesthetic advances are incremental, even for one generation's progress. Is it enough to warrant the upgrade? Let's glean what we can by comparing their features and specs.

In the first study of its kind, scientists have monitored the brain activity of seabirds in flight and discovered that they regularly squeeze in some shut-eye while out searching for food, though how they perform on such little rest remains a little unclear.

After disappearing for almost 50 years, Elvis Presley's BMW 507 ended up in the hands of Munich's finest restoration team, where it was subjected to an exacting restoration. Now it's ready for public consumption, and damn, it looks fit for a king.​

Along with room-scale VR done right, motion controllers are what set HTC Vive apart from other VR systems. With that focus on peripherals, it's not surprising that HTC has announced plans to improve support for third party hardware developers to bring new accessories to the Vive system.

If Arctic sea ice melting trends continue, a US military base, built into the Greenland Ice Sheet and abandoned since the 1960s, could eventually be freed from the ice – along with hundreds of thousands of liters of waste and pollutants.

Researchers at Bielefeld University in Germany have developed technology that could provide swimmers with an edge in training, converting pressure data into live audio, allowing the swimmer to perfect their technique in real time.

Today's VR headsets all center around gaming. In an attempt to help highlight some content in other areas, HTC is preparing to launch an app store focused exclusively on things that don't involve gaming.

Impossible Foods is the latest alternative food company to introduce a version of lab-made "meat" with its plant-based Impossible Burger, which is said to look, smell and taste like real meat. The secret ingredient? Heme, a component of the red pigment in blood.

Using strands of vitamin B2 that originated in genetically-modified fungi, researchers at the University of Toronto (U of T) have developed a battery with high capacity and high voltage that may pave the way for environmentally-friendly, metal-free batteries.

First appearing as a concept at the EICMA show in Milan in 2014, Moto Guzzi​'s slick MGX-21 cruiser made its formal debut as the Flying Fortress at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota this weekend.​