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The Earth is almost 4.5 billion years old, but it’s young at heart – literally. Researchers from the University of Rochester have now dated the solid inner core of the planet to just 565 million years, making it a relative toddler compared to the rest of Earth.

​​MIT researchers have developed an ingestible pill that swells up to the size of a ping-pong ball upon reaching the stomach, allowing it to remain in the body and take measurements from within – for weeks at a time.

​Resulting from bone-breaks, deep puncture wounds, severe tooth decay or other causes, osteomyelitis is a bone infection that in serious cases may lead to amputations or even death. It's also notoriously difficult to treat, although a newly-developed implant could help change that.

Measuring less than an inch long yet packing more than enough lumens to help you find the keyhole at night, the Sub is intended as a barely noticeable part of an everyday carry right up until the moment you need it.

On March 16, 2016, Wiebe Wakker set out on an epic journey from the Netherlands to Australia in an electric car. After 1,051 days on the road, he has just arrived in Adelaide after traveling through 33 countries and clocking up some 89,000 kilometers. But his trip is not yet over.

​iRobot's Roomba and Braava robotic vacuum cleaners have been cleaning the floors of owners' homes for a number of years, and now the company is moving outdoors. The Terra robot mower is designed to keep a garden's grass in check so you don't have to.​

Like other automotive manufacturers, Ford already uses 3D printing technology in the development of its vehicles. Now the company is claiming a record for the largest 3D-printed metal part ever put inside a working vehicle. That vehicle is Ken Block's "Hoonitruck" Ford pickup.

We've already seen wooden-bodied electronic devices such as computers, keyboards and video game systems, so why not a quadcopter drone? That's just what SirTeen's Aerowood is, and you put the thing together yourself.

Put together by Canadian artist Von Wong, the stunning Strawpocalypse installation features thousands upon thousands of discarded straws arranged as inward facing waves that represent the "parting of the plastic seas."

​Recent research has raised doubts over the veracity of the commonly held belief that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and a new meta-analysis concludes there is no good evidence to suggest eating breakfast promotes weight loss or improves metabolic rates later in the day.​

Everyone loves a good view, however some architects have taken this obsession to the extreme, perching structures on perilous precipices. In this gallery we feature some of the most thrilling, beautiful and possibly insane cliff-side homes for those that are determined to literally live on the edge.

The first confirmed CRISPR gene editing clinical trial to take place outside of China is officially underway, after pharmaceutical companies CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex revealed a human patient has been administered the experimental treatment targeting a rare blood disease.