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A theme park in North Carolina will soon be home to one of the tallest and fastest roller coasters in the world. Fury 325, at Carowinds, opens to the public at the end of this month. The ride will top out at 325 ft (99 m) and will hit speeds of 95 mph (153 km/h).

Swiss company Nanolive has created 3D Cell Explorer, a new technology that creates vibrantly detailed 3D holograms of living cells on the nanometric scale. It offers researchers a novel tool to non-invasively peer inside living cells almost in real time.

Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley) have taken adult stem cells and grown a lattice of beating human heart tissue on a silicon device. This new system presents advantages in both a potential reduction in animal vivisection and a possible increase in testing speeds.

Is the HTC One M9 a disappointment, or like a fine wine that gets better with age? We can't answer that just yet, but we can break down its features and specs next to those of the iPhone 6.

The Atlas wristband tracks wrist movements across three dimensions to identify specific exercises and take fitness tracking to another level. After raising over half a million dollars last year, the wearable has now made the leap from crowdfunding the real world.

Grundorf's portable GMT-004 folds out to accommodate acoustic or electric guitars, includes compartments for stowing away tools, strings and supplies, and features a pop-up support for the instrument's neck.

You know you're having a bad day when you wish you had a bulletproof laptop bag – as in proof against actual bullets. One such example of versatile urban luggage is the Savior Multi-Threat Shield (MTS) laptop bag, which unfolds in seconds into a shield that can stop a .44 Magnum round.

Getting to Earth from the ISS by jumping out of an airlock with a parachute may seem daft, but a group of students are trying just that with a CubeSat. According to NASA, TechEdSat-4 will use an parachute-like "exo-brake" to slow it down enough to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.

Fashion and fitness enthusiasts will have a new way to capture their lives later this year. British tech firm Lyte is releasing a new range of video-capturing eyewear. Fashion Glass and Sports Glass versions of the shades will be available.

For a long time, scientists have been searching for an answer as to how galaxy clusters regulate the number of stars they create. A team of researchers from MIT, Columbia University and Michigan State University believe they have found the answer.

Building upon the groundwork it laid at last year's Geneva Motor Show, Liechtenstein's Nanoflowcell used this year's show to highlight two very different ways that its flow battery technology can be put to use: the Quant F hypercar and the Quantino commuter.

The Solar Impulse 2 solar-powered airplane has already broken a world record. By traveling from Muscat, Oman to Ahmedabad, India, it broke the Solar Impulse team's previous record for longest solar-powered straight distance flight between predeclared waypoints.