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Epson has a new line of printers designed to tackle one of the most irritating aspects of printing – the need to change ink cartridges. The company has unveiled a line of "supertank" color printers with large ink reservoirs that can go up to two years without needing replacement.

One of the first of the first deep-space CubeSats may be shoebox-sized satellite called Lunar IceCube, which is designed to look for water ice and other resources on the Moon and is tentatively aimed to launch on the first Orion mission scheduled to fly by 2018.

A team of scientists from Hungary and the US have discovered the largest structure in the universe – a ring of nine galaxies 7 billion light years away and 5 billion light years wide. Though not visible from Earth, it covers a third of our sky.

NASA recently invited university students from around the United States to submit designs for an electric aircraft that could compete with standard piston-engined craft by the year 2020. Of the 20 designs that were submitted, we look briefly at the five judged the best by NASA.

Brazilian company Agrindus hopes to start marketing plastic milk bottles that use embedded silver nanoparticles to kill bacteria. Grade A pasteurized fresh whole milk packaged in those bottles can reportedly last for up to 15 days, as opposed to the usual seven.

Have you ever wished you could change the weather to be more like somewhere else in the world? Well, travelers at Stockholm Arlanda Airport in Sweden can now experience just that. The airport's new Climate Portal simulates the weather from other locations in real time.

For all the textbooks and museums at our disposal, sometimes it can still be difficult to really imagine what life was like in an earlier time. Visitors to the British Museum this weekend, however, won't have to imagine. They'll be transported to the Bronze Age using virtual reality.

Above all else, it's important that any device does its bread-and-butter functionality well. The nipi cooler, which is currently the subject of a crowdfunding campaign, is said to keep ice frozen for six full days, and comes packed with what its makers call "21st century survival features."

Acer has announced a pair of new laptops that are set to provide access to Windows 10 at a very reasonable price point. Known as the Aspire One Cloudbook 11 and 14, the systems are designed to used in a similar way to a Chromebook, with a focus on cloud storage.

Canadian space firm Thoth Technology has received a US patent for an elevator to take spacecraft and astronauts at least part way into space without the needs for rockets.

Airbus' Marco Prampolini and Yohann Coraboeuf have been granted a US patent for an "ultra-rapid air vehicle" designed to fly at 20 km (12.4 mi) higher than conventional aircraft and over four times the speed of sound – twice the speed of Concorde.

The whiskers that help rats find their way around dingy sewers has inspired a tactile sensor that could be used for navigating all manner of dark conditions. The deviceis able to generate images of obscured environments and could find its way into biomedical applications.