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The US$7.5 million sale of Michael​ Schumacher's 2001 Ferrari F1 at Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Auction could have ramifications for the automotive auction industry

Fresh from a dominant series of shootout victories in Europe, Continental's Road Attack 3 sports touring tires are beginning to make their presence felt in the rest of the world. New Atlas headed along to the Australian press launch to see what all the fuss is about.

Just one day after successfully completing its sixth test flight, the Airlander 10 has suffered a major setback. According to reports, the world’s largest aircraft apparently broke free of its mooring mast on Saturday morning and was deflated as a safety precaution. An investigation is underway.

​A Faraday cage is a must-have accessory for any conspiracy theorist, but KFC thinks an enclosure with the ability to block electromagnetic fields might appeal to another segment of the community – those looking to escape the e-marketing blitz surrounding Cyber Monday.

​Electric kick scooters are 10 for a penny these days, with everything from fat-tired rollers to odd tubular creations making eyes at your wallet. Groover is a kick scooter that has its battery cells in the steering column. This can be popped out between rides for charging convenience.​

Humanity’s first “space nation”, Asgardia, is a step closer to getting off the ground after its first satellite was launched last week. The end goal is for millions of people to live on satellites, but don’t pack your bags just yet: Asgardia-1 is just a CubeSat carrying 500 GB of pictures and text.

Celebrating its 10th anniversary​, the World Architecture Festival (WAF) has just awarded this year's prizes. The winners were selected from a shortlist of 434 projects from 68 different countries, and featured everything from a hospital in Iran to an earthquake-proof house in China.

Meet Geio, an app-controlled battlebot that you drive from a first-person view to duke it out in a kind of robot laser tag match. New Atlas took one of these robots for a lonely test drive.

​Toyota has unveiled an assistive robot test bed that builds on previous work undertaken by its Partner Robot wing. A human operator controls movement remotely in real time, with the T-HR3 busting moves like performing Tai Chi and building Lego-like structures with precision.​

Cinnamaldehyde is an essential oil that not only gives cinnamon its distinct flavor, but has also been shown to protect mice against obesity. Now, scientists have gained a better understanding of how it does so, and how it could help keep humans from getting fat, too.

In 2016, Britain's ER Productions set the unofficial world record for largest-ever laser show, by putting on a show in Milan with over 220 lasers. Last weekend, in celebration of a decade in business, the company beat that record with a 314-laser show in Las Vegas.

With our current technology, the journey to Alpha Centauri would take millennia, but there are plans for tiny probes that could do it in as little as 20 years. Now, a physicist has detailed a method to use magnetic sails as a braking system to slow craft down to a cruising speed once they get there.