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A new clinical trial has provided strong evidence that cannabidiol (CBD), a non-psychoactive compound found in the cannabis plant, significantly reduces the frequency of seizures in children with a rare form of epilepsy.​

A hobbit house, a Doctor Who-style Tardis, and a flight simulator all feature in the 2017 Cuprinol Shed of the Year. The competition highlights the cream of the British shed scene and this year's finalists are made up of 32 weird, wacky, and ingenious sheds made by passionate hobbyists.

Currently on Kickstarter, the SID camera is a dual-lens 3D-shooter which promises to make it simple to film footage suitable for VR applications and headsets. 3D live-streaming is also possible with the compact device, as is the ability to add Augmented Reality special effects to videos.

We've opined several times of late that mobile VR hardware hasn't exactly been throttling forward at breakneck speed. HTC just announced a mobile headset that brings something truly new to the table, but only Japanese tables will be showcasing the HTC Link.

It's generally accepted that humans originated in Africa, but new studies may paint a different picture. By examining fossils of early homini​ns, researchers have found that humans and chimpanzees may have split earlier than previously thought, and this may have happened in Europe, not Africa.

Animals and plants have one of the most ideal relationships in nature. The plants feed the animals and the animals, in turn, spread the seeds of the plants through excrement. But when tree-climbing goats in Morocco eat the fruit of the argan tree, the seed is spread in more-or-less the opposite way.

Two years ago, maker Ritsert Mans embarked on a nature-inspired motorbike building adventure that would result in a wood-framed beach racer fueled by microalgae oil supplied by Peter Mooij. A work in progress, much of the bike is fashioned from wood – including the frame, handlebars and swingarms.

A new study from Stanford into the accuracy of seven popular wrist-based fitness trackers offers both good and bad news for wearers, showing heart rate data to be relatively accurate, but energy expenditure estimates to be way off.

Evolution has a way of helping life adapt to the most extreme of environments. In the case of the Mexican cavefish, help comes in the form of blindness and a skull that skews to the left. The reason for such a strange arrangement? So it can find food in the pitch black darkness of its habitat.

Scientists at the University of Central Florida have developed a way to effectively shrink pixels down to a third of their size, using different voltages to tune the color of individual subpixels to red, green or blue. The result could be screens with much higher resolution and improved brightness.

Audi has turned to autonomous parking robots developed by Ray, and Dokk1 is a fully automated car park in Denmark. Now, Stanley Robotics' automated valet is being put into service at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris to provide people-free parking.

"Dieselgate" might be winding up for VW, but investigations into diesel emissions cheating are just getting started elsewhere. Following news Daimler is being investigated in Germany, the US DOJ has filed a civil suit against Fiat Chrysler for failing to correctly disclose emissions control devices.