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Because any extraterrestrial life in the Solar System may be very rare, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is looking at a new technique that is 10,000 times more sensitive than the ones used in the current generations of deep space probes.

​The Milky Way galaxy is currently racing through space at about 2 million km/h on a journey towards the Shapley Supercluster. But we’re not just being pulled in this direction: Astronomers have now discovered a huge extragalactic void, called the Dipole Repeller, that’s pushing us away.

On the face of it, robots should be good at picking and packing online supermarket orders. Unfortunately, most robotic manipulators can't be trusted with easily bruised fruit and vegetables. To address this, Ocado has been putting new soft robots to the test in its European warehouses.

The Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia has designed the world's first 3D-printed pedestrian bridge. Installed in the urban park of Castilla-La Mancha in Madrid and made up of eight separate 3D-printed parts, the bridge spans 40 ft (12 m) and measures 5.7 ft (1.75 m) wide.​

A V164 offshore wind turbine from MHI Vestas Offshore Wind has produced almost 216,000 kWh over a 24-hour period during tests at its site near Østerild, Denmark​ in December. In doing so, the ​9 MW prototype takes the energy generation record for a commercially available offshore wind turbine.​

Apple's iPad Pro is a very good tablet that can transform into a mediocre faux laptop. But with a total cost that starts at US$850 (iPad Pro 9.7​) or $1,070 (12.9-inch model​), you might be scouring the web for alternatives. We have some suggestions to save money, add versatility or perhaps both.

In areas where clean water isn’t easily accessible, solar stills can help purify available water that might be dirty or salty, but they can be expensive and inefficient. Now, a new type of solar still that uses carbon-coated paper could be cheaper and twice as efficient.

The European Southern Observatory has unveiled a staggeringly detailed visible light image of the famous Cat’s Paw and Lobster nebulae, made up of around two billion pixels. The nebulae are located in the “tail” of the constellation Scorpius, and represent regions of intense star formation.

In general, iPhone battery life is decent – but the fact of the matter is, when you use a device all day every day, it’s hard to keep it charged. New Atlas offers tips and gadget suggestions so you’ll never be caught with a dead iPhone.

In 2014, EHX placed classic organ sounds at the feet of guitar players with the release of its B9 organ machine. Now the company has added synth sonics to its 9 Family with the development of the Synth9 synthesizer machine, Peter Gabriel and more.

​Why power your bike with just your legs, if your arms can be put to work too? That's the thinking behind the Varibike, an arm- and leg-powered bicycle. Two-wheelers aren't for everyone, though. It's with that in mind that the recumbent Varibike Trike is now being introduced.

​If you eat a lot of large predatory oceanic fish, such as tuna or swordfish, then you're at risk of mercury poisoning. Each individual big fish doesn't necessarily contain a lot of accumulated mercury, though, which is why scientists have created a probe that indicates which ones do.