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Many Madagascar villages aren't accessed by decent roads. This means that it can be difficult getting medical samples to labs in a timely fashion. That's where a project led by Stony Brook University comes in. It's been using drones to get samples from those villages to a testing center.

Visitors to this year's London Design Festival will have the opportunity to see the largest GRID installation in the world –​ a modular cubic construction system that's used to create versatile structures. The installation will act as a façade and will wrap around existing trees and bushes.

VST Technology has just launched a Kickstarter campaign for a wearable that is equal parts coach and tracker. Stepp is designed to measure running form, motion, and fatigue to offer real-time guidance and post-run suggestions.

Deep Space Industries has announced that it will conduct what it claims is the world’s first commercial interplanetary mining mission. It is planning to launch an unmanned spacecraft called Prospector-1 to intercept, survey, and land on a near-Earth asteroid as a prelude to space mining operations.

Scientists have traced the origins of the ambling horse back to medieval England, where the knights' penchant for the pleasant four-rhythm saunter and the selective breeding that followed instigated the global spread of the gaited horse. ​​

As mobile as our mobile devices are, limited battery life means we still have to tether ourselves to a wall socket from time to time. More and more we're seeing charging options built into backpacks and cases themselves. HP has got on board with its Powerup Backpack that packs in a few nifty ideas.

Of all the smart devices that can give reminders or the weather in the morning, the toaster probably isn’t one that springs to mind. Toasteroid is a smart toaster that can cook a customized image or message into your bread, forecast the weather, or send a message to a friend’s toaster.

​Although high-voltage electrical shocks can cause burns, scientists have recently shown that the application of pulsed electric fields actually aids in healing them. It does so by killing skin cells.

The universe is some 13.8 billion years old and the Earth has only been around for 4.5 billion of those years, so it seems there's a fair chance that much older lifeforms than ours are out there somewhere. Not so fast ...

Named after the silks that were exported from China, the Silk Road helped spread news, art and culture through a large part of the world. Now, a new study focused on a 2,000-year-old Silk Road latrine shows that the routes also helped spread something else – disease.

With the rise of 4K and graphics-intensive VR, we’re putting more strain on our graphics cards. Manufacturers like Nvidia have responded with upgraded components, but there's always people who want more again. Thankfully, more has arrived, in the form of the Titan X. ​

Deep learning AI has been put to work in intelligent drones, sequencing genomes, and even keeping cats off the lawn. Now, Google has set its system, DeepMind, loose on its massive data centers, and drastically cut the cost of cooling these facilities in the process.