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​Part zero-emission experiment, part floating laboratory, the Energy Observer recently arrived in Paris on the first stop of its six-year, 50-country mission around the world. The refurbished racing catamaran is powered by wind, solar and hydrogen generated from the seawater through electrolysis.

BMW's new X2City folding electric kick scooter is a landmark product for the company. It is the first BMW product that will be sold outside the dealer network, the first to address new audiences for 70 years, and the first BMW to address "last mile" motorized transport .

The East African Highland cooking banana is the major staple food in Uganda, but it has little in the way of micronutrients such as pro-vitamin A. Prof. James Dale decided to do something about it, and over the past decade has created a vitamin A-rich "golden banana."

​​Although a lot of us may already slather on the vitamin E when we get sunburned, it looks like vitamin D might also help our skin to recover. In a recent study conducted by Case Western University, it was found that orally-administered vitamin D can actually promote healing.

New types of bacteria have been found in one of the most alien environments on Earth: a subglacial lake buried beneath almost a thousand feet of ice. Conditions could be strikingly similar to oceans of Europa or Enceladus, so studying these organisms could aid the search for extraterrestrial life.

Aston Martin is known for performance cars, but the marque's latest offering is silent, and creates no emissions. It's also smaller than the average Aston, but don't worry – it isn't a successor to the Cygnet. Meet the Vantage GTE Soapbox, built to take on the Red Bull Soapbox Race in London.

Pirelli is one of the biggest tire makers in the world, but the company occasionally thinks outside the (rubber) box and does something different. It teamed up with Blossom Skis earlier this year, and will be continuing its partnership with Tecnorib on the Pirelli 1900 boat.

For almost 70 years, McIntosh has caused heart flutters among music lovers – both for the excellent quality of its hi-fi separates and for the prices they command. Now a new two-channel integrated amplifier sporting black glass and blue output meters has been announced, the firm's most powerful yet.

A cancer vaccine is one of the holy grails of modern medical research. Two recent clinical trials that have produced encouraging results in patients with skin cancer​ are are providing hope for the development of personalized cancer vaccines tailored to individual patient's tumors.

​There may be new hope for migraine sufferers, in the form of a gadget that gets shoved up the ear. It alternately heats and cools the inside of the ear canal, and was recently shown to be effective in a study carried out by Britain's University of Kent.

Scientists at the Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute are working on a computer system that can read body language right down to the position of fingers. The new process works in real time and opens the door to a more natural way for people and machines to interact.

A team of scientists from Britain and China have developed a new type of ceramic carbide that can withstand the high temperatures of flying at over five times the speed of sound without the degradation experienced by similar materials.