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Land Rover's Defender reached the end of its life earlier this year, but that hasn't slowed East Coast Defender down. Its latest creation is the Project XIII, a 1993 North American Defender with an LS7 Chevy V8.

​Though exactly what happened to ESA's Schiaparelli lander when it crashed on the surface of Mars is unclear, one possibility is that the unmanned spacecraft shut down its landing engines early because it thought it was already on the ground.

​Hot on the heels of Apple’s announcement of two new MacBook Pro models, LG has unveiled two new Ultrafine monitors designed to work with them. Mac-powered workspaces can be scaled up to either 21.5 inches at 4K resolution, or 27 inches at 5K, with better color reproduction and MacOS integration.

Updated November 19, 2017: There's only one fastest car in the world at any given time, and the car that holds that title has captured the public's imagination since the early 1900s. Here's a look at the fastest production cars in history.

​​If you want to learn Morse code, it turns out that all you have to do is play an experimental new Google Glass-based game. Players have the code buzzed into their head while they play, so they don't have to make a point of intentionally memorizing anything.

Astronomers have discovered a batch of rapidly spinning stars that produce X-rays at more than 100 times the peak levels from our Sun. The stars, which spin so fast they've been squashed into pumpkin-like shapes, are thought to be the result of close binary systems where two sun-like stars merge.

Scientists have developed a multipurpose fiber that changes its stiffness depending on temperature, making for a highly versatile wire that could one day be used in everything from folding drones to shapeshifting furniture.​​

University of Cambridge researchers have turned to biology for inspiration in designing next-generation batteries. It’s a big step forward for lithium-sulphur batteries, but it’ll likely still be years before the tech becomes commercially available.

Boeing has been awarded a patent for a tilt rotor VTOL aircraft capable of carrying up to 100 passengers. By combining vertical lift of a helicopter with the speed and range of a conventional airplane, it could one day turn small airports into passenger hubs.

Camping hammocks and suspended tents allow intrepid campers to sleep in style above the cold, hard ground. But even popular designs can be improved on, something the team at Nube has tried to do with its Stratos, an update on its original design.

While it's unlikely that George Lucas will appreciate the irony, it seems fitting that a museum of storytelling should have such complex plot twists. Indeed, the troubled saga of the building of his Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is now on episodes three and four.

After six years of diplomatic impasse, the countries that determine the fate of Antarctica's waters have finally reached a historic agreement to declare the Ross Sea an official Marine Protected Area.