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Besides having tentacles, squid and octopi are also both known for their color-changing skin. Well, soft-bodied robots may soon also share that attribute, thanks to research being carried out at Cornell University.

With wings that look like a flying set of cupboards, DARPA's VTOL X-Plane design is a hybrid of fixed-wing and rotary wing technologies designed to create a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft that boasts greater range and speed capabilities.

Russian billionaire businessman and hobbyist architect Vasily Klyukin has a penchant for designing outlandish concepts. His latest proposal doesn't disappoint in the peculiarity stakes – it's a cobra-shaped skyscraper.​

Like Nike, Adidas and New Balance before it, Under Armour has now launched a new trainer produced with the help of 3D printing. But the use of advanced technology doesn't stop there.

Rainpal fits to just about any helmet, gives you multi-speed visor wiping, wiper delay and visor cleaning spray, and it’s tested up to 100 mph. It charges via USB and snaps off in seconds when the sun comes out.

Drone racing sure has come a long way in a short space of time. For evidence of that, look no further than a new cashed up competition out of Dubai, a place that doesn't really do things by halves.

Unless you can afford the expense of a racing school or track day, getting close to the experience of riding in a F1 or GT race car is near impossible. Fortunately, the average race fan can now have something resembling that experience, with the opening of the Motion Simulation Room in England.

​NASA's Dawn spacecraft has succeeded in capturing the most detailed views to date of the solitary mountain nicknamed Ahuna Mons, discovered on the dwarf planet Ceres.

Engineers at Iowa State University may have gotten one step closer to the ability to make objects invisible with the development of what they are calling a flexible, stretchable and tunable meta-skin that can suppress radar detection.

In the old days, the iPhone vs. Galaxy question involved one flagship phone from each company. Now that both Apple and Samsung have flagships in multiple sizes, lets compare the features and specs of their latest phablets.

Butter. It has to be kept cold and hard, yet it's easiest to use when it's warm and soft. Texas-based inventor Doug Foreman, however, decided to do something about it. His biēm device is loaded with a stick of cold butter, and delivers it onto food in spray form.

Scientists from Wageningen University in the Netherlands previously tried growing food plants in simulations of both lunar and Martian soil. Although those tests proved unsuccessful, that wasn't the case the most recent time around.​