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Considering taxpayers are footing the bill, it pays to improve the efficiency of the more than 300 million streetlights around the globe. A team in Germany has now developed an array of low-power LEDs that are more efficient, safer, cooler, and easier on the eyes.

A glass house is hard to get right, often resulting in a home only an extrovert could live in. The Hidden Pavilion offers a good example of how this doesn't have to be the case, however, and has some nice little touches, like a design intended to allow the site's existing trees to grow unimpeded.

As Harley-Davidson introduces its new Milwaukee-Eight engine to the Road King standard and Classic models, a new version joins the ranks. The 2017 Road King Special sports larger wheels, bigger sweeping saddlebags, and a blacked-out styling that plays to the mean and lean tune.

Weird is the new normal in the ocean’s twilight zone, home to all kinds of fantastic creatures, including the cockeyed squid whose mismatched eyeballs have long puzzled scientists. Now thanks to a new study, we might finally know the reason for its strange visage.​​

​Starspotters at Warwick University have observed the first white dwarf version of a pulsar. Located 380 light years from Earth in a binary system along with a red dwarf, AR Scorpii is the first to be discovered since pulsars were spotted for the first time half a century ago.

​Snorkelling may be a great way of seeing marine life close to shore, but things get a little trickier if you want to explore the waters that lie farther out. That's why a group of entrepreneurs created the Aeon Explorer. It's an electric watercraft that lets its riders see beneath the surface.

James Bond's gadgets may seem far-fetched, but they do have a basis in fact. C & T Auctioneers is running an online auction that includes a collection of authentic "Q" gadgets from WWII and beyond that were used by spies behind enemy lines and to help Allied POWs escape and evade capture.

The recent, tragic mass stranding of hundreds of pilot whales in New Zealand has rekindled debate as to the mystery behind what causes mass cetacean beachings. Solar storms, odd coastal topography and human-influenced undersea noise pollution are just some of the suspects.

​China's budget music hardware maker Joyo Technology has launched the Jam Buddy ultra portable practice rig that's aimed squarely at players who practice a lot, but don't want to lug around a small combo amp, mess around with smart device interfaces or only listen through headphones.

Constructing a commercially viable battery from cheap materials has proven an elusive goal. Researchers from Stanford University hope to solve the puzzle with the introduction of an aluminum-ion battery that uses an electrolyte made of urea, the main component of urine (after water).

The bacteria Shewanella oneidensis is useful for cleaning water and generates electricity while it chows down. Now, researchers at UCSB have chemically modified the bacteria to increase its energy production, which could lead to wastewater treatment plants that generate some of their own power.

University of Bristol researchers discovered certain bacteria can use a “molecular lasso” to attach itself to host cells in what they call a catch-clamp mechanism. Understanding the process could lead to new treatments of a serious condition known as infective endocarditis.