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Volvo has SPA, Volkswagen has MQB and now Mercedes has used TecDay in Stuttgart to announce a dedicated platform for pure electric cars, alongside plans for wireless EV charging and a hydrogen plug-in hybrid SUV.

The water within freshwater lakes is regularly turned over by storms in the winter months, distributing oxygen to the lower levels and preserving the ecosystem. But scientists warn global warming might put the brakes on this process and compromise the health of our freshwater resources.

If fitness wearables were personal trainers, many would sit at the end of your running route and tell you what you've just done, or give advice along the way that wasn't designed for you. One new wearable, however, monitors you throughout and provides tailored coaching in real-time. Her name is Vi.

A just-announced project to chemically produce an entire human genome in a lab seems like a logical next step for genetics – even if it could one day lead to lab-made humans with no biological parents.

While it's nice to think electric cars are making a big difference to the environment, manufacturing them is still a dirty business. Nissan is aiming to change this at its Sunderland plant, which can now generate 11.25 MW of renewable energy thanks to a new solar farm.

​When naval divers need to know how to proceed underwater, they can't just pull out an iPad or a sheet of written instructions. That's why US Navy engineers are developing what's known as the Divers Augmented Vision Display. It's a head-up display that's built into a diving helmet.​

If some reckless reader has put a book back in the wrong spot, it's a daunting task for librarians to search the entire building for it. Researchers are now designing robots that can navigate through libraries at night, scanning spines and shelves to report back on missing or out-of-place books.​​

In the great outdoors, getting more out of a single tool means a better time at camp and less weight in your pack. The all-new Lantern works as an LED flashlight/lantern/bike light combo and also charges gadgets.

An international team of researchers has found a way to create microscopically-small lasers directly from silicon, unlocking the possibilities of direct integration of photonics on silicon, and a significant step towards light-based computers.

On July 4, the Juno deep space probe becomes just the second spacecraft in history to orbit Jupiter. What will be found remains to be seen, but if history is any indicator, it's likely to be very unexpected.​

​Nike's newly-expanded European Logistics Campus covers 150,000 sq m (1.6 million sq ft) and allows the sportswear behemoth to serve its online, retail and wholesale customers across 38 countries from a single location. It also makes the firm more efficient, more responsive and more sustainable.

It sounds like sci-fi: scientists create a weapon that neutralizes a bad invading entity and maybe even turns it into a force for good. That's a bit like what researchers have just done. Only the invaders are disease-causing liver cells and the "weapon" involves a bit more than special effects.​​