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NASA has entered the (virtual) travel business with the opening of its new Exoplanet Travel Bureau, which provides internet visitors with 360-degree artist's impressions of what the surface of a number of exoplanets might look like, along with a collection of downloadable travel posters.

The RoBoat project is planning to get autonomous boats on the waters to ferry passengers and cargo, join together to form temporary floating structures, and monitor the environment. Now the design has been tweaked to be make them smarter, more agile and easier to manufacture.

A team of researchers at MIT has produced a new system that combines engineered bacteria that can detect intestinal bleeding with an ingestible electronic circuit that can wirelessly send a signal to a computer.

Here's a novel take on the tape measure: removing the tape. Rollova, as the name subtly suggests, is a digital measuring gizmo complete with OLED display that you roll along a surface or edge to measure its length.

Few tiny homes offer the headroom of the recently completed Journey by Alabama Tiny Homes. The high ceiling throughout gives this pint-sized dwelling a relatively spacious interior, something inhabitants will likely appreciate when it comes time to crawl into bed.

NASA's InSight spacecraft has completed its first major course correction, setting it on its way to Mars. On May 22, the unmanned probe made a 40-second burn to not only alter the probe's trajectory, but to also protect the Red Planet from biocontamination by the mission's Centaur rocket booster.

​With its 3.5-liter twin turbo V6 the 450-horsepower F-150 Raptor packs plenty of punch, but the way Ford sees it there’s more to off-road muscle than sheer engine power. The company has just detailed a few upgrades for the forthcoming 2019 edition.

​When rain water runs down city streets and into storm sewers, it can be carrying a lot of filth with it – filth such as E. coli bacteria, which may end up in rivers. There could be an inexpensive and efficient new way of ridding the water of that bacteria, however, using chips of waste steel.

BMW's latest concept bike takes the company's mid-range parallel twin engine to a new level of style and function. Ultra light weight and extreme mass centralization combine with integrated panniers for a bike that is odds-on to become a production model.​

Though digital music accounts for much of what we now listen to, old school formats like vinyl and audio cassettes steadfastly refuse to disappear. Professional audio gear manufacturer Tascam is prepping for a cassette tape revival with the release of the 202mkVII dual cassette deck.

Considering that Borealis Tiny Homes is based in chill Prince George, Canada, it makes sense for the firm to ensure its Aspen model is able to stand up to cold weather. The compact dwelling has several features designed to keep the frost at bay, including radiant underfloor heating.

​​Becoming an astronaut is a famously difficult and demanding process, but when you’re the CEO of a fledgling space tourism company, perhaps you can make your own rules. Richard Branson has now revealed that if all goes to plan, he could be launching himself into space in a matter of months. ​