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Earlier this year, DJI announced it would be taking on the entry-level, selfie drone market with its Spark. Along with challengers like the Yuneec Breeze, the smallest DJI quadcopter is priced within touching distance of the bigger Parrot Bebop 2. How do they compare?

The good news may be 65 million years too late, but a new study indicates that you could outrun a Tyrannosaurus rex. By combining two separate biomechanical simulations, scientists have concluded that the giant meat eater couldn't move at much above a walking pace without its leg bones breaking.

Having announced the high-riding Insignia Country Tourer would be headed stateside wearing a Regal TourX badge, the team at Buick has whipped the covers off the range-topping Regal GS. With a punchy six-cylinder engine and torque vectoring, it certainly looks good on paper.

​If you ever find yourself stuck in a disaster zone, your rescuer could be a soft robotic snake. A Stanford team has developed a flexible robot that grows like a vine, squeezing through rubble to find trapped survivors and even delivering water to them.

Researchers in Finland have been investigating investigating the link between viral infections and type 1 diabetes for over 25 years. They now believe they have targeted the particular virus group that can trigger the disease and will begin human clinical trials of a vaccine in 2018.

If you've ever been served a delicious dish, but were too shy to ask for the recipe, an MIT team may have the answer – an artificial intelligence system called Pic2Recipe that can predict the ingredients in a dish from an image, and even suggest recipes for similar dishes.

Conventional multicopter drones are excellent at hovering and VTOL, but they can't cover long distances as efficiently as fixed-wing aircraft. A team from the Singapore University of Technology and Design is trying to get the best of both worlds with the Transformable HOvering Rotorcraft (THOR).

If you kick a ball on the ground, it will roll away from you – that’s pretty basic science. But mathematicians have found that a quantum ball would roll toward your foot instead. When a force is applied to them, quantum particles can move in the opposite direction, in an effect known as “backflow.”

Cardboard is versatile stuff and, aside from packaging, has been used to make everything from a helmet to a bicycle, and even a church and guitar. The latest addition to the ranks is the Foldo Bebe, a flatpack cardboard baby crib that promises to be lightweight, durable, and green.

Budapest startup Platio has spent the last couple of years developing a modular, self-contained paving panel that harvests the sun's energy to produce electricity. The panels have recently been rolled out in front of a shopping mall, at a harbor and integrated into outdoor seating.

NASA's Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA) XIII simulated deep space mission has ended after a record 45 days. The four-man crew is celebrating by getting some kip after more than six weeks in a study examining the effects of sleep deprivation on astronaut efficiency.

Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics are versatile enough that they still persist after 75 years. But to make sure the guidelines for programming artificial intelligence cast as wide a net as possible, experts from the University of Hertfordshire have detailed a new system they call “Empowerment.”