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Juno Power's new Jumpr is small enough to fit in a glove compartment, and light enough to carry in a coat pocket or backpack, but is claimed capable of jump-starting a car. And it can charge your smartphone, too.

The winners of the the Metropolis magazine Living Cities competition were recently announced. Participants were asked for solutions to the housing crisis facing New York, with the winning designs a twisting tower on the High Line and a multi-transport, entertainment and residential hub.

The Hondajet has passed another milestone on its way to entering commercial service as GE Honda Aero Engines has announced that it’s shipped the first pair of production HF120 jet engines developed for the HondaJet executive jet engine.

Lockheed Martin has expanded its small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) family with the introduction of the Vector Hawk. Coming in a number of variants, Lockheed says the aircraft is suitable for a wide variety of different missions thanks to its ability to be rapidly reconfigured in the field.

Taking a couple of pages from the avian playbook, the Fraunhofer Institute for Electronic Nano Systems (ENAS) and its partners are developing wing flaps for airplanes that change shape like a bird’s wing for greater efficiency.

After lying dormant for the last 13 years, Spain’s most storied motorcycle brand is being re-launched in 2015 as a specialist electric motorcycle manufacturer. Check out the two prototypes that point the way forward – the very sexy Rapitan and Rapitan Sport.

A fresh analysis of data collected by NASA's WISE telescope has cast doubt on the widely accepted unified model for the composition of black holes. The study examined 170,000 supermassive black holes, and will require scientists to present new theories on the structure of these stellar giants.

It seems to be a forgone conclusion that if you're going to make a bicycle built for two, then both riders will be pedaling. If that bike has an electric motor, however, then perhaps just one rider will be able to move the thing along nicely. That's the thinking behind the Yuba elMundo.

No road vehicle needs a 218mph (350kmh) top speed. No motorcycle needs to make 200 horsepower, with as much torque as a Hyundai iMax people mover. These are figures of absolute excess - and that's the point. The Lightning LS-218 will be a truly, horrifyingly fast motorcycle.

BMW’s cult hero is back, with a new name and a new outlook on the modern performance car. The new M3 Sedan and its coupe cousin, now known as the M4, mark a shift from BMW M's naturally aspirated, revvy past to a new turbocharged era ... but will the new M4 handle like the old car?

Virgin Galactic has has decided which fuel will be used in the first passenger-carrying flights of its suborbital spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo. The solid fuel grains that will power the world’s largest operational hybrid rocket will be a thermoset plastic similar to nylon.

Magnetars are dense, magnetic neutron stars that can form when a star goes supernova. They are extremely rare and, until now, it has been difficult to determine how and why they form. However, thanks to new data collected by the VLT, astronomers believe they have finally solved the great mystery.