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Residential architecture is going through an exciting time and this is reflected in the homes we've covered during the past 12 months. A floating off-grid luxury pad, a 3D-printed house, and a sustainable home that can be built in a few days all feature in our pick of the best houses of 2017.

It looks as if the first interstellar asteroid may be just a big rock after all. The SETI initiative Breakthrough Listen announced that preliminary observations of `Oumuamua (A/2017 U1) show no sign that the 400 m (1,300 ft) long object is other than natural with no radio transmissions detected.

​After eight years in development, the world’s largest amphibious plane has taken to the skies in China for its maiden flight. The AG600, codenamed Kunlong, comfortably spent one-hour flying at an altitude of 3,000 meters before safely landing back at the Jinwan Civil Aviation Airport in Zhuhai.

​Conceptual architecture can be a lot of things. It can be a realistic skyscraper, or it can be an extreme unreal imagining seemingly straight out of a science fiction movie. We’ve seen a lot of strange, and extreme, architecture concepts in 2017 and this gallery celebrates those exciting dreamers.

If sea turtle hatchlings get disoriented, they can spend several hours crawling around before reaching the ocean. Will they still have enough energy left to swim by the time they do so? To find out, scientists put some of them on a treadmill.​

Virgin Hyperloop One has set a new speed record at its Nevada test center. An unmanned test pod reached a speed of nearly 387 km/h (240 mph) while running through an evacuated cylinder depressurized to the equivalent air pressure at an altitude of 200,000 feet (37 mi, 61 km).

An elevated 200-sq m (2,152-sq ft) Passivhaus treehouse, Dursley Treehouse is a stunning family home built above a series of screwpiles specifically designed for minimal impact on the ground.

Running in the Halls was recently tasked with building a unique tea-making machine sporting basic AI for a UK TV show. After a bit of to and fro text messaging between the tea maker and the host via his old school Nokia phone, the machine would brew up a cuppa based on the Q&A exchange.

Customers looking to buy a new ride through Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba will soon be able to take it for a test drive first, right after it's spat out of a gigantic cat-themed vending machine.

​The heart of Melbourne is set to host a new Apple flagship store. The tech giant has reached an agreement with the local government to move ahead with the project, with the city's Federation Square to be the home of the Southern Hemisphere's first ever Global Flagship Store.

​​After many years and plenty of setbacks, the moment is fast arriving for SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket. New photos shared by company show a complete Falcon Heavy upright and ready to roll on the launchpad, with a certain CEO's cherry red Tesla parked inside as the payload. ​

This year, we saw the redesign of one of the world's 4x4 icons, the spread of electric powertrain tech to the trail, all-new racing machines, and a few toys that could lure even the most stubborn homebody into the backcountry. Here we look back at our favorite fun, capable off-roaders of 2017.