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​​After a stint on the sidelines, The Ocean Cleanup Project is bouncing back into action following a few upgrades, with the team now hopeful it has a system better equipped to take on the massive task of plastic pollution in the ocean.​

The new AntiShanty trailer is more than meets the eye, a part-time cargo box, part-time tiny cabin. You could call it a mobile mountain hut for surf bums and dirtbag climbers, carrying everything from an ATV, to boards, to a mess of camping gear before converting over to a high-ceiling mini-lodge.

Cockroaches have been known to develop resistances to individual insecticides for decades, but new research has shown that they’re also able to rapidly develop cross-resistance, even to chemicals that they’ve never been directly exposed to.

Generally speaking, the animals alive today are mere shadows of their former selves, and birds were no exception. In a Crimean cave, palaeontologists have uncovered the bones of some of the most gigantic birds to have ever walked the Earth, that would have lived alongside early European humans.

France's DS Automobiles has built a real car out of the bizarre, asymmetric renders we saw last year, and it's about to give the public its first chance to take a look. The DS X E-Tense is a vision of a proper driver's car for the year 2035.

Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft has completed its fifth, final, and most dangerous parachute test. It was released from a balloon and dropped safely to the desert floor at the White Sands Missile Range with three of its six parachutes deliberately rigged to malfunction.

Automakers have spent all kinds of resources previewing futuristic cars that will drive themselves. BMW takes a sharp right turn with the Vision M Next concept, exploring what the future of cars will look like for enthusiasts who want to keep their leather-clad fingers around the steering wheel.

A unanimous vote by San Francisco's Board of Supervisors has effectively banned the sale of e-cigarettes in the city. Pending approval by the mayor, the prohibition is the first of its kind in the United States and will commence in early 2020.

Yama Nomad has recently converted a 2018 four-wheel-drive Mercedes Benz Sprinter into a stunning mobile home. The bespoke campervan, dubbed Christopher Wallace, boasts an interior design that is jam-packed with luxury and space-saving features.

The outdoor gear market is saturated with super-compact, ultralight backpacking stoves, but the new Primus Firestick looks quite different from the pack. The 3.5-oz burner packs into a cylinder that's smaller than a can of Red Bull, sliding easily into a pocket or backpack pouch.

After briefly teasing it at CES back in January, HTC has now fully whipped the covers off the new VR headset, the Vive Cosmos. The new headset features inside-out tracking, improved displays, and a modular design.

​Details were scant when Lightyear first revealed plans for a solar-powered EV back in 2017, apart from a claimed 800 km range per charge. Last night the company took the wraps of the pre-production prototype, with 725 km of WLTP range, a high price tag and plans to deliver the vehicle in 2021.​