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WoodWorks has revealed its winners for the 2016 Wood Design Awards. Created to promote the benefits of building from timber, this year's 16 winners are a varied selection and include a firehouse, children's museum, library, pavilion, and a residential project.

Regular business flyers will know that planning trips is time-consuming, and that prices can fluctuate significantly. US startup OneGo, however, is out to change all that. It allows customers to pay a fixed monthly fee for unlimited flights on major airlines​.​

A team at Stanford claims to have made a battery breakthrough that could boost the performance of lithium-ion batteries and also make them smaller and lighter. The researchers managed to remove two long-standing barriers to these improvements by putting silicon particles in graphene "cages."

A team from the Swinburne University of Technology are developing a graphene microlens one billionth of a meter thick that can take sharper images of objects the size of a single bacterium

MagLOCKs are platform pedals that keep the user's feet in place using magnets instead of the mechanisms used in "clipless" pedals. We recently had a chance to try them out, and generally liked what they had to offer.​

Interested in remote-controlled flying with FPV? We spent some time behind the controls of an eye in the sky, with the latest quadcopter from Axis Drones, the Vidius.​

In a new study out of Cambridge University shedding light on gecko-like adhesives, researchers say that for Spider-Man to stick to a wall, he'd need hands and feet equal to 40 percent of his entire body surface area.

If you don't have a lot of space with which to work when designing an apartment, you have to be creative. Architecture firm ICOSA has certainly done that with its Domino Loft. A multi-functional space in a small condo combines a bedroom, a guest bed, a dining space, a work area and a closet.

Singapore-based Akai Professional is looking to tap into a growing market for vinyl records with a stylish new turntable named the BT-500 that's said to offer "no-compromise audiophile performance," together with analog-to-digital conversion and wireless streaming capabilities.

NASA is working to develop the next generation of high-speed modems using an emerging technology called integrated photonics. ​

If you’re completely new to virtual reality, the ultra-affordable Honido Mini glasses provide an extremely convenient – but significantly compromised – sneak peek.

There's a lot of mechanically adjustable desks designed to lighten the load for tired typists, and now one office furniture maker wants to give your cubicle the same versatility. The Crossover can be plonked down on any desk and transformed into a raised workstation with a push of a button.