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​​There has been a flurry of research in recent times examining the links between artificial sweeteners and obesity. But what if the actual carbonation in soda was having an effect on weight gain, regardless of the sugar content in the drink?​

For thousands of years humans have been using a vast array of strange folk contraceptive methods. A team at UC Berkeley recently examined two commonly used traditional plant-based folk remedies and discovered a potentially new mechanism that could lead to non-toxic, non-hormonal contraceptives.

Thanks to technological advances, modern cars are much safer than their predecessors. But what does all that progress actually look like when push comes to shove? The Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP) crashed a 2015 Toyota Corolla into its 1998 forebear to find out.

​Age-related macular degeneration (AMD), is a common eye disorder that can result in the loss of one’s central vision. A team of scientists has developed a new treatment for the disorder that replaces the current monthly injection into the eye with a simple eye drop.

Japan's Shigeru Ban is famous for using materials like cardboard to build innovative refugee shelters, but his large-scale projects are equally impressive. La Seine Musicale is a ship-shaped music venue crowned by an almost egg-like auditorium with track-mounted solar array.

You might think that the uninhabited Henderson Island sitting in the middle of the Pacific would be relatively pristine. Here scientists have found a nasty surprise, however, discovering the highest density of plastic waste to be reported anywhere on the planet.

Well-rounded, subtly premium and with Hi-Fi audio support, last year's HTC 10 was one of our favorite smartphones of 2016. How does its successor, the squeezable HTC U11, measure up? Join New Atlas as we compare the two phones' specs and features.

While smartwatch popularity may not be where the companies making them had hoped it would be at this point, smartwatch quality has steadily pressed forward in the last few years. Let's look at our six top picks, in the latest version of our Smartwatch Comparison Guide.

​To keep up with a constant flood of data, computer makers have thrown more processing cores at the problem. Forging a different path, HPE has overhauled the architecture itself to put memory at the center of the system, showcasing it through a prototype it calls The Machine.

​​Imagine if things like satellite antennas could fold down small when not in use, but then unfurl into a rigid structure as needed. Well, that's just what ladybug wings do. In order to find out how they do so, scientists recently replaced a ladybug's real wing cover with one that's transparent.​

The world's most expensive earrings sold in Geneva last night when the "Apollo and Artemis Diamonds" went to the same buyer for a total of $56,290,627. The blue Apollo​ was the more expensive of the non-matching pair, (Artemis is pink​) which were sold as separate lots.

A new water purification technology developed by researchers at Princeton University doesn't require filters, instead relying on the injection of CO2 gas to change the water's​ chemistry and separate waste particles based on their electrical charge.