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Ferrari has announced its new "entry level" convertible ahead of its public debut at next month’s Frankfurt Auto Show. The 591-horsepower, 200 mph, twin turbo, V8-powered Ferrari Portofino is lighter and quicker than the California T it replaces, with a similar price tag north of US$200,000.

Scientists from the University of New South Wales have shed light on the purpose of a mysterious clay tablet containing a trigonometric table created by the Babylonians a full 1,000 years earlier than Pythagoras.

​A new Guinness World Record was recently set in China when 1,069 simultaneously completed a choreographed dance routine. This was the third time in twelve months the world record for “most robots dancing simultaneously” has been broken.

With Apple, Facebook and Disney set to enter the world of streaming a big question for audiences is arising: How many monthly subscriptions can you handle and how much more fragmented can this streaming world get before things sour?

Researchers have taken us a step closer to the idea of "exercise in a pill" by examining a protein they call the body's "exercise sensor" and learning how to activate it with a molecule named after a Star Wars character.

For the last few months, John Dingley has been bending tubing on a DIY hydraulic machine, welding metal together and installing parts salvaged from a go-kart, golf cart and an e-bike. The Electro-Luge 500S has been built to zip over long stretches of firm sand, with the rider laid flat and low.

​On Feb. 17, 1864, a Confederate submarine known as the H.L. Hunley sank a 1,200-ton Union warship, the USS Housatonic. Mysteriously, however, the sub itself then also proceeded to sink, for no obvious reason. Now, Duke University PhD grad Rachel Lance believes that she knows what happened.

Space is a very hostile place for electronics, so BAE Systems is rolling out its new RAD5545 single-board computer designed to survive the hard radiation in space while providing "exponential improvements" over the company's previous RAD750 SBC in terms of size, speed, and power-efficiency.

The Unicat MD77h MAN TGS 6x6 packs three axles, 530 hp of diesel muscle, and a comfy interior with multipurpose kitchen, two sleeping areas, a washer and dryer, and multiple entertainment systems. Explore whatever obscure corner of the world speaks to you without losing a single warm night of sleep.

While Amazon and other companies are busy navigating through the red tape required to get drones buzzing through the urban skies with their pizza payloads, the Icelandic city of Reykjavik has become the first in the world to be served by commercial delivery flights.

A dizzying number of microbes call the human body home, and it turns out that science knows very little about most of them.

For the first time since 1976, the Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group (NRG) is conducting experiments in thorium molten salt reactor technology that could lead to cleaner, safer nuclear reactors capable of supplying energy on a global scale.