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Architects Anna & Eugeni Bach recently completed work on an attractive and energy-efficient home in rural Catalonia, Spain. The MMMMMS House is extended with a flexible uncovered skeletal structure that encourages its owners to spend plenty of time outside.

The wait is set to continue for those that have laid down some cash and cleared a space in their garage for Elio Motors' US$6,800, tandem seat, 84 mpg (2.8 L/100km) American-made three-wheeler. The company has announced the vehicle's launch has been delayed ... again.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd beat Amazon to the punch this Wednesday, by beginning actual deliveries-by-drone. The three-day, three-city test of the system began in Beijing, with deliveries being made from a single merchant operating through Alibaba's Taobao Marketplace.

The 2015 Grand Prix season is nearly upon us and the teams are busy unveiling their contenders. Ferrari Scuderia, the team that more than any other embodies all that is Formula 1, rolled its SF15-T off the truck and into the public eye this past weekend at pre-season testing in Spain.

Electronic Frontier Foundation and other information privacy advocates have created Canary Watch, a database of common online companies' acknowledgments that they have not been ordered by government entities to release private user information.

Olympus has announced the follow-up to its OM-D E-M5 mirrorless camera, the E-M5 II. The new camera is said to boast the world's most powerful image stabilization, can take 40-megapixel stills by shifting its 16-megapixel sensor, and features vastly-improved video options.

The BMW M6 GT3 has taken to the track for the first time in Germany. The car was put through its paces at the BMW plant in Dingolfing. Having been announced last year, this marks the start of its testing period.

DARPA's Airborne Launch Assist Space Access (ALASA) program is developing a system to launch small satellites into low-Earth orbit using an expendable rocket dropped from a conventional aircraft.

Jet turbine blades need to drilled with tiny cooling holes in an operation that can ruin them. To prevent this from happening, GE is combining the heat of the laser beam with the cooling of the water jet to drill holes without weakening the blades.

As anyone who has ever used medicinal eyedrops will know, it's hard to get the things into your own eye. Soon, however, they could be replaced by tiny drug-containing polymer "nanowafers" that are applied to the eye like a contact lens.

The UK's Tibo Electronics has announced the launch of the all-in-one Urban 500 DJ station, which sits a media controller atop a 500 W speaker tower with wheels on the bottom to help you trundle to your next gig.

The ESA has successfully tested its Fluorescence Explorer mission (FLEX). The mission, which aims to create global maps of photosynthetic activity, will allow for the identification of vegetation suffering degrees of stress that simply aren’t visible to the human eye.