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Opening a window may help ventilate a room, but it also lets in a lot of outdoor noise such as that of traffic. A new window could help, as it's said to bring in more fresh air than a conventional open window, while still keeping out unwanted sounds.

Back in 2014, French audio house Devialet launched a $2,000, 750-W wireless speaker called the Phantom that looked like nothing else out there. Now the company has upgraded its flagship compact all-in-one speaker for 2021.

After a highly icky tender process, Amazon has selected the final location for its "HQ2" campus and released renders of its spectacular architecture, including a landmark spiraling nature walk called the Helix that visually recalls the poop emoji.

Heart failure often requires a transplant of the whole organ. Now scientists at EPFL have developed an artificial aorta that can help pump blood, taking some of the pressure off the heart to reduce or even eliminate the need for a transplant.

An environmental disaster may have been averted as images from ESA's Copernicus fleet of satellites show the giant iceberg A-68a turning away from South Georgia Island and starting to break up into smaller bergs.

Scientists at RMIT University are continually coming up with ways to work recovered waste items into high-performing road materials. The latest is made with help from shredded face masks and they claim it offers some unique engineering advantages.

Following a Kickstarter in 2017 to gauge interest in an electric flying car racing series, and an international public debut in 2019, Alauda Aeronautics has now unveiled a full-sized, fully functioning electric flying racing car – the Airspeeder Mk3.

Wearing a big, heavy backpack can get pretty tiring. That's why scientists have developed a pack that's not only claimed to lighten the load on the wearer, but that also uses the motion of that load to generate electricity.

We’re all familiar with the march of time, but why it does so is a mystery. In 2016 Australian physicist Joan Vaccaro proposed a new quantum theory of time, and now a team will test the hypothesis by searching for time dilation in a nuclear reactor.

After updating its Mantis and TigerMoth trailers, Taxa has turned its attention to its smallest model, the Woolly Bear. The rolling tent-top toolbox has new and improved features that help it serve as a 21st century chuck wagon or complete camper.

Removing the vast amounts of plastic waste already polluting our oceans is going to need tackling in a number of ways. But the flow of plastic from rivers also needs to be stopped, and that's what Vietnam's trash traps are designed to do.

It was three years ago that we first heard about the reTyre system, which lets cyclists zip specialized tread "skins" on and off of a set of base tires. A new version is now on the market, which addresses some of the shortcomings of the original.