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A design by international architecture firm OMA has been selected for the new Axel Springer media center in Berlin. The design is aimed at encouraging collaborative working in a digital age.

French watch maker Bernard Richards Manufacture already has three "world's lightest watch" trophies in its cabinet, and has now added a fourth. The V6-44-MK joined its featherweight siblings at Baselworld 2014, and Gizmag managed to get a closer look at the sporty quartet.

Woods Bagot has designed a new stadium for Italian soccer team AS Roma that draws inspiration from the ancient Roman Colosseum.

The UK has put in place some of the strictest drug driving laws on the planet in an effort to get drug-impaired drivers off the roads. We contacted several drug testing experts and a forensic pharmacologist to try to work out what the "zero tolerance" levels set for these tests mean.

Scientists at Stanford University have found a new way of creating artificial diamonds out of graphite (the material in your pencil leads), without applying external pressure of any sort.

Just like its animal cousin, Festo's BionicKangaroo is able to store energy from the landing phase of a jump and reuse it efficiently for more jumps. The technology may hold the key to more energy-efficient machines based on both pneumatic and electric drive technologies.

Back in 2011, Festo created a natural-flight mimicking bionic seagull with flapping wings dubbed SmartBird. The company is now looking to apply similar principles in order to convert wind power into electricity with its DualWingGenerator system.

The US Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced the launch of a new atomic clock as the official standard for civilian time. Called NIST-F2, it is so accurate that it will lose only one second in 300 million years.

Today at Microsoft’s Think Next symposium in Tel Aviv, Israeli startup StoreDot has demonstrated the prototype of a nanodot-based smartphone battery it claims can fully charge in just under 30 seconds.

Although not as prestigious as the upcoming Formula-e series, the relatively new ZENN series does give teams a venue in which to put their electrics up against competing teams. Held in Monte-Carlo last month, the race saw Renault’s ZOE not only dominate, but sweep the series.

An explosion in the number of devices connected to the internet is expected over the next decade and in turn, our homes will become increasingly "smart." With this in mind, Samsung has today announced its own Smart Home service, which will provide home automation via an app.

Dirty, noisy chains and dirty, fragile rear derailleurs are two features of modern mountain bikes that could certainly stand to be made obsolete. Well, the Cavalerie line of full-suspension MTBs does away with both, replacing them with a Gates Carbon belt drive and an Effigear gearbox.