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Spanish firm PKMN Architectures recently renovated a small one story villa in Madrid, and in the process transformed the interior with innovative modular units which can be easily moved around to create flexible living and work spaces.

Eurostar, the rail system that links the UK to continental Europe through the Eurotunnel, is turning 20. As part of the celebration, the company is adding a new fleet of high-tech e320 trains made by Siemens. The trains are faster and feature Wi-Fi.

NASA has announced that it is going forward with its Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON). Scheduled to launch in 2017, the orbital mission aims to study the effects of the lower atmosphere on the ionosphere and its impact on the Earth’s surface.

The Fraunhofer Institute's Afkar project is creating an autonomous driving system for electric cars that can find and park in empty parking spaces, move itself in and out of charging stations, or otherwise travel short distances to a given target without any human oversight.

Although DJI Innovations is best-known for its line of "prosumer" Phantom quadcopters, it also makes a professional-use multicopter called the Spreading Wings. Now, DJI has announced its new Inspire 1 quadcopter, which combines aspects of both the Phantom and the Spreading Wings.

Solar researchers working at the University of New South Wales claim to have produced a system that converts over 40 percent of incoming sunlight into electricity, thereby taking the title of highest solar efficiency for a photovoltaic system ever reported.

The Dawn spacecraft has lifted the veil on another corner of the Solar System as it took its best image yet of the dwarf planet Ceres. The nine-pixel-wide image was taken from a distance of 740,000 mi (1.2 million km) from Ceres as part of the final calibration of Dawn's science camera.

Having traveled 2.9 billion miles from Earth, NASA's New Horizons deep space probe has woken itself up from hibernation mode as it begins preparations for its flyby of Pluto and its moons next July.

The world's largest capacity container ship has set off on its maiden voyage. Measuring 400 m (1,312 ft) in length and 58.6 m (192 ft) wide, the CSCL Globe can carry 19,000 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) shipping containers.

The SprayLD system developed by University of Toronto researchers is capable of blasting colloidal quantum dots onto films and plastic, a new method for spraying solar cells onto flexible surfaces. This could one day see them coat anything from bicycle helmets to outdoor furniture.

Coachbuilding firms Maggiora and Carrozzeria Viotti have collaborated to revive the Willys Interlagos. The gorgeous reinterpretation of the 1960s sportscar's features a turbocharged six-cylinder engine producing 610 hp.

When houses are extended, it's generally the case that an additional section is simply added on to one part of the building. A house in Austria, however, has had an entirely new exterior built around it. The existing building of Haus Hohlen is now part of the house's interior.