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RenewableUK calls the UK "the undisputed global leader in marine energy." If plans for a tidal lagoon in Swansea Bay go ahead, that claim will be reinforced. Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay would be the world’s first man-made energy-generating lagoon and could power over 155,000 homes.

With the goal of making sous-vide cooking more user friendly, the team responsible for the Nomiku immersion circulator have added Wi-Fi to a new model that is smaller and more powerful.

To help salmon overcome otherwise insurmountable man-made obstacles, Whooshh Innovations has developed a transport system that sucks the fish up through a plastic tube and shoots them over obstacles low and tall like so many piscatorial projectiles.

An MIT team has developed a process that recycles the lead in car batteries for use in the manufacture of perovskite solar cells, addressing both the problem of disposing of old lead-acid batteries, and securing supplies of lead for producing new solar cells.

When something is sent by airmail, it goes in a fixed-wing aircraft, not a helicopter. Nonetheless, when we hear about drones being used for deliveries, multirotor-style aircraft are what's usually proposed. Now, students have created a delivery drone which combines the best features of both.

A couple of months ago, Dolby announced that its Atmos surround sound format was making the move from cinemas to home theaters. Marantz introduces one of the first home theater receivers to support the format, paving the road to the future of surround sound.

Researchers at Cornell University have found that adding certain salts to the anodes of lithium-based batteries can increase their useful life by a very large factor, solving long-standing problems associated with cell degradation.

Sense is a sleep monitoring system that transmits data to an elegant sphere on your bedside table. It takes into account the bedroom's environment and offers a sleep score based on the quality of the night's rest, pertaining to the information gathered by a range of sensors.

A novel technique developed by the Microgravity Centre, Brazil, could allow astronauts aboard the ISS to measure the effect that prolonged exposure to microgravity can have on human lung capacity.

Following the success of its Seven Stars Cruise Train, which launched late last year, Japanese railway company JR East has released plans for another luxury sleeper train called the Cruise Train that is set to take passengers from spring 2017.

Mayor of London Boris Johnson's office recently revealed that consortium Carillion Igloo Genesis has won a competition to design and build the UK's first floating village at the Royal Victoria Dock site, East London.

The World Cup may have finished a few weeks ago, but there was another one played in Brazil just last week. The annual RoboCup competition was held in João Pessoa, including the robot soccer World Cup.