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Along with crazy concept cars, insane hypercars keep folks coming back to the Geneva Motor Show year after year. This year is no exception, seeing everything from the world's quickest electric sports coupe to several cars designed to be the all-out fastest production cars ever built.

Japan's Hakuhodo i-studio has teamed up with the Yamaha Corporation to allow professionals and beginners alike to take part in live piano duets with an AI-powered partner at South by Southwest (SXSW) this week at the Austin Convention Center in Texas.

The glass we’re most familiar with is made from silicon dioxide, but now, an international team of scientists have developed a brand new class of glass, made from metal-organic compounds. These new materials form glass more readily than other types, and are much more pliable.

The Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance featured 300 extraordinary cars and motorcycles on the lawns of the 10th and 18th fairways this year. We have chosen just 20 of the best to focus upon.

Renowned designer Giorgetto Giugiaro, whose 80th birthday falls this year, has taken to the stage at the Geneva Motor show with a new concept car that combines his classic (and quirky) design philosophy with futuristic flair.

Red dwarf stars are of particular interest to astronomers hunting down distant worlds. The latest study of Kepler data has now identified 15 new exoplanets around red dwarfs, including a system of three “Super-Earths” – one of which appears to be orbiting within the host star’s habitable zone.

Graphene hogs all the headlines about two-dimensional materials, but it might just be the beginning. Researchers have now isolated a 2D form of the soft metal gallium, dubbed "gallenene," which could make for efficient, thin metal contacts in electronic devices.

Louis Moinet has taken the use of extravagant materials to extremes with its latest creations. One is the Dhofar, which incorporates bits of a lunar meteorite, while the other, called the Acasta, contains pieces of one of the oldest known surviving pieces of the Earth's crust.

​Chances are, you can't think of many uses for fish scales. Neither can the fisheries industry, which is why it disposes of great quantities of the things. According to scientists from Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, however, such scales may be able to help heal wounds in humans.

Research has shown an approved anticancer drug restoring the social deficits associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The effect has only been demonstrated in animal models but this research could pave the way for a drug that helps restore social and communication skills in people with ASD.

Many of the tiny houses we've covered lately have been getting bigger and bigger, some approaching the dimensions of small apartments. The homes we're highlighting today buck this trend and are so small that only the most enthusiastic proponents of small living would ever choose to live in them.

A violin crafted for, and belonging to, Albert Einstein has achieved $516,500 at a Bonhams auction in New York. The first Einstein violin to ever be offered at auction set a new record for Einstein memorabilia.