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​Swedish designer Love Hulten fuses classic crafts like woodwork with 1980s arcade technology to create weirdly discordant, but also compellingly beautiful, objects that evoke a sense of nostalgia while still being entirely new – and playable.

​It was a long time coming, but Hennessey's new Venom F5 is finally here. The Texas tuning house whipped the covers off its highly anticipated hypercar at SEMA in Las Vegas this week, revealing a mean-looking, carbon fiber body befitting the fastest production car in the word. ​​

Velomobiles usually take the form of a recumbent tricycle enclosed by a streamlined body, that MIGHT have a motor to augment the rider's pedalling power. The Podbike, however, is a little different. It has four wheels, two motors … and no chain.

​It’s not unusual for bold Dutch design firm MVRDV to create experimental structures. This is the firm to have given us everything from a transparent office tower to a house shaped like the letter “Y”. Now it's delivered one of the most oddball libraries we have ever seen, the Tianjin Binhai Library

Over 65 million years ago, an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs. Strangely, the legacy of this huge space rock could include a treatment for cancer. Scientists have demonstrated that iridium – a rare metal delivered to Earth by the asteroid – can kill cancer without harming healthy cells.

A new study from Harvard researchers has now shown how fasting can increase lifespan, slow aging and improve health by altering the activity of mitochondrial networks inside our cells.

With nostalgia so popular, maybe targeting people that like both retro-Volkswagens and the Back to the Future movies isn't as crazy as it sounds – or maybe it is. Either way, this restored van gives us an idea of what might have been if Doc Brown's taste in vehicles had been different.

​With the likes of Bugatti and Hennessey jostling for pole position, there is plenty happening at the high-end of the hypercar game. But it looks like there is a new top dog in town, at least in terms of two-way land speed records.

​The Scrambler proved to be a huge hit for Ducati, building on the principle of simplicity that had nourished the Monster’s legend. It started as an 800, shrunk to 400, and now at EICMA 2017 Ducati is breathing new life to another classic airhead motor with the Scrambler 1100.

​Israel's CompuLab has been making teeny fanless computers for home and business use for a number of years. Now the next generation fitlet has been launched, which is built around Intel's Apollo Lake system-on-a-chip architecture and designed for IoT applications.​

In a step towards creating a new class of electronics that look and feel like soft, natural organisms, mechanical engineers at Carnegie Mellon University are developing a fluidic transistor out of a metal alloy of indium and gallium that is liquid at room temperature.

When NASA's InSight lander touches down on Mars, it will have an unusual cargo. Where other interplanetary probes might carry a commemorative plaque, InSight will have a microchip inscribed with the names of 2,429,807 names submitted by public.