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Scientists studying the flight of Brazilian free-tailed bats have clocked the creatures zipping along at 160 km/h (100 mph), making them the fastest horizontal flyers in the entire animal kingdom. ​

​Sandia National Laboratories is raising the stakes in its quest to develop fusion power by introducing tritium into its experiments with its Z machine. Tritium, the heaviest of the three hydrogen isotopes promises to boost energy output by a factor of 500.

Somewhere between motorcycle and electric-assist bicycle lurks what we've come to call the electric superbicycle, your Stealth B52, Greyp G12S and Trefecta DRT. The all-new Neematic FR/1 is more powerful than all of those models, further blurring the line between e-bike and motorbike.

A new tower in Shanghai, China, is to boast a reflective, cloud-like façade sitting atop staggered, landscaped terraces reminiscent of a rocky hillside. The features will demarcate the building's retail and office sections, with the façade helping to regulate its internal temperature.

Researchers have developed a system that bypasses spinal injury by allowing the motor cortex to communicate wirelessly with the lower spine, and demonstrated that it can restore almost normal walking patterns in partially paralyzed macaques.

A new study suggests that the Earth’s vegetation has upped its game to help offset carbon emission growth. After a 40-year upward trend, the rate at which atmospheric CO2 levels increased plateaued between 2002 and 2014, thanks to plants plucking more CO2 out of the air than they have previously.

The firm behind the sensor of the Leica M has developed a 48-megapixel CMOS offering with a global shutter. In addition to being suited to shooting fast-moving objects without distortion, the CMV50000 from CMOSIS, can also support 8K video resolutions at 30 fps.

Landing somewhere between harmless foam-firing toys and drones packing semi-automatic handguns is the DartDrone, a version of Haevic’s SuperDrone modified to carry an air gun that fires darts, for use by veterinarians and the game animal industry.

Researchers at the University of California San Diego claim to have created the world's first microelectronic device that has no semiconductors, instead employing low-power laser optical control to increase its conductivity by more than 1,000 percent.

The VW Golf has been a benchmark hatch since its launch in 1974​, but the seventh-generation model is up against increasingly tough competition from the likes of Ford and Renault. So VW has given the Golf a refresh, with a new touch-heavy interior and a prettier face.

It's not drone technology that's stopping you from being able to get a burger or a book flown into your back yard by drone – it's aviation law. But this extraordinary piece of technology might just give UAVs the sense-and-avoid ability they need to satisfy the FAA and open up the skies.

The Piaggio Group has announced that possibly the most iconic scooter of them all is about to go electric. The Vespa Elettrica concept has been revealed at EICMA in Milan, Italy, this week.