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On July 12, a giant iceberg was born as a chunk some 6,000 km2 (2,300 mi2) broke away from the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica. But it seems the saga isn’t over yet: the remaining cracks are spreading towards a feature that’s integral to the stability of the rest of the ice shelf.

​​​​Motorists traveling in electric vehicles along the coast in Australia's north will soon be able to keep their rides topped up for free, thanks to a new Electric Super Highway announced on Thursday.

Rocket Lab says that the failure of its Electron rocket to reach orbit was due to a ground equipment error and not from any fault with the launch vehicle. A two-month internal investigation that the root cause was a fault in a third-party contractor's equipment.

Subaru has taken to the Nurburgring Nordschleife in a modded WRX STI, toppling the lap record for four-door sedans with the WRX STI Type RA NBR Special – and becoming the first four-door to dip below seven minutes in the process.​

It seems like there’s a new graphene breakthrough coming out of the James Tour lab at Rice University almost every month. Now, researchers have managed to make graphene out of wood, by blasting a piece of pine with a laser beam.

​According to researchers at Queen's University Belfast, around 20,000 metric tons of aluminum foil is tossed away in the UK each year – enough to stretch to the Moon and back. This prompted chemistry researcher Ahmed Osman to look for new ways to put all that waste to use.

Over the past 70 years there has been a stunning assortment of images of our home planet taken from space. Take a trip through the history of Earth photography in our gallery, from the first "Earthrise" images, to a look at our precious planet from the outermost reaches of our solar system.

We shudder to think what the price tag might be, but this retro-futuristic electric bicycle from Poland looks like it'll be an absolute beast. An unruly 5 kW of power is tamed down for road use, but it still does 58 km/h (36 mph) and looks a bit like an old-school board track motorcycle.

Before the Model 3, Elon Musk had an idea for an all-electric SUV. With supercar doors and acceleration to match, the Model X is unlike any other family car we've driven – but does it have substance to match the show-car sizzle? We spent the weekend in the P100D to find out.

The Hubble Space Telescope has done it again, capturing an incredibly detailed, macabre view of a dramatic galactic merger. This particular cosmic battle is set to be a pretty one-sided affair, as the majestic barred spiral galaxy NGC 1512 bears down on its victim – the dwarf galaxy NGC 1510.

As of August 5, 2017, NASA’s Curiosity rover will have been cruising the landscape of Mars for five years. We celebrate this milestone with a look back through some of the most spectacular images the rover has captured while roaming the Red Planet.

BMW Group has spent the last decade growing its plug-in vehicle program, and now it's preparing to expand in a big way. It will hit the market running, adding an all-electric Mini Cooper and an i8 convertible on the way to dropping an electric powertrain option for every model series.