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Ever since the discovery of the short statured "hobbit" human, Homo floresiensis, in 2003, scientists have been debating where it fits on the human evolutionary tree. According to a new study, the species did not evolve from from Homo erectus as previously argued.

Cheap and cheerful is an oft-used phrase, but very rarely is it true. Mercifully, some cars manage to buck the trend – cars like the delightful Suzuki Ignis. It doesn't cost much, but this funky helmet-on-wheels never failed to brighten our day.

​While most of us use smartphones, tablets or computers with relative ease, doing so can be very difficult for people with upper-body mobility issues. Paired with assistive switches, Komodo OpenLab's Tecla-e lets users control up to eight smart devices at once.

NASA estimates that around a thousand gamma ray bursts are produced by storms each day and has been using the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope to gain a better understanding of these high-energy events, which have tens of millions of times the energy of visible light.

Back when home computing was still very, very young, Sinclair's ZX Spectrum opened bedroom gamers' eyes to a new world of color and became a massive hit. Now the iconic computer-in-a-keyboard has been reborn as a modern take called the ZX Spectrum Next.

MIT is working on an anti-malnutrition "milkshake" designed specifically to address the needs of an estimated eight million children in India, put them on the road to recovery at lower cost and less risk of waterborne infections.

​Silicon Valley startup Kitty Hawk has released a video showing off the prototype of an upcoming all-electric personal flying machine it's calling The Flyer. The company says that users won't need to secure a pilot's license to fly the eight rotor vehicle, and promises a swift learning curve.​

VW Group has its sights on 2025 for an expansion of its electrified vehicle portfolio. By that time, five of the group's all-electric vehicles will be wearing a Skoda badge ... compared to none today. Skoda starts now with a sporty electric crossover named the Vision E.

Car manufacturers are racing to get their electric cars onto the market, but they're also keen to get their batteries into family homes. Tesla has made its Powerwall plans clear, and Mercedes has been talking a big game with its energy storage systems, which will be showing up in UK homes soon.

Isolated communities often lack garbage disposal infrastructure, meaning it’s hard to either truck out the trash or process it on-site. The Trashpresso is designed to lighten the load a little, as a semi-portable, solar-powered plant that turns trash into tiles.

Binh House, by Vietnam's Vo Trong Nghia Architects, keeps three generations of the same family naturally comfortable in tropical Ho Chi Minh City using clever passive design. The concrete home is part of the House for Trees series, which aims to create oases of green in inner-city Vietnam.

Scientists have identified a Type Ia supernova behind a galaxy two billion light years away that is acting like a gigantic magnifying glass. This is the first such supernova to be seen by gravitational lensing and could give a better understanding of how the universe is expanding.