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​Picture a plum. When it is ripe, the surface is smooth, but when it starts to age and shrink, wrinkles can appear along the surface. Researchers now believe that Mercury's newly discovered Great Valley was formed in much the same way.

To help you with buying decisions (especially holiday gift giving) we've rounded up the year's leading 2-in-1 tablet/laptop hybrids at a variety of price points. Let's take a closer look at these boundary-blurring convertibles.

According to New Horizons' science team, a slushy, subsurface ocean could be responsible for rotationally locking Pluto's prominent heart-shaped feature with the dwarf planet's large moon Charon.

A team of astronomers has found a star 5,000 light years away from us that's not only much rounder than the Earth, but is rounder than any natural object in the Universe.

Italian mini-yacht company Jet Capsule has unveiled an updated version of its UFO (Unidentified Floating Object) off-grid floating home. The UFO 2.0 is larger and more refined, and the firm hopes to get this one built with the help of a crowdfunding campaign.

To help bring heavy-duty sterilization into battlefield or emergency situations, Ohio State University have created a flexible, lightweight, LED-based, deep-UV foil prototype that can be wrapped around items and energized to kill harmful microorganisms

For many businesses and households, a smiling stack of Amazon boxes is a surefire sign of the holiday season. Wouldn’t it be great if you knew their exact contents without opening up every one? Now you can, thanks to the new Package X-Ray feature which arrives on the Amazon mobile app this week.

Maybach offers a range of gloriously overblown limos spearheaded by the long wheelbase S660 Pullman. The lineup even caters to sunlight loving billionaires – at least it does now, with the launch of the Mercedes-Maybach S650 Cabriolet in LA.

The Cormorant is a prototype VTOL (Vertical Takeoff and Landing) aircraft that features internal rotor blades. It recently made its first full untethered autonomous flight … although there were a couple of hiccups.​

Today, we can play chess against AI or humans anywhere, without the tactile pleasure of moving real pieces. Square Off is a physical chess board that moves pieces around itself, with an AI system or an online human player using an app or their own board.

The LA Auto Show started this week and New Atlas spent a few days speed-walking the floor to get the scoop on new cars, trucks, urban transporters and auto technology. We've put together an overflowing gallery of the best of the best cars for your viewing pleasure.

Google has given its Earth software a virtual reality makeover, today launching Google Earth VR to add another layer of immersion for globetrotters of the digital realm.