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Last year, billionaire SpaceX founder and space-fan Elon Musk delivered an expansive, hour-long presentation, outlining his ambitious plan to get humanity to Mars. Musk has recently published a research paper adapted from that presentation entitled "Making Humans a Multi-Planetary Species".

When scientists look for extraterrestrial life, they typically turn their focus upwards, to planets like Mars, moons like Enceladus and exoplanets beyond our own solar system. But for Lara Rowe, an assistant professor of chemistry at Valparaiso University in Indiana, the search begins in the lab.

​​Underwater drones can be mighty useful for exploring the oceans, but they do have some drawbacks, namely how far they can travel on each charge. A startup spun out of MIT has built what could be a game-changer for these types of watercraft.

The Vacanti Spirale is a wine glass with a corkscrew-like twist that captures sediment.​ Given this a problem that would have confronted every other wine-drinking civilization of the last 10,000 years, it's quite astonishing it hasn't been done before.

Unlike humans, the gender of reptiles such as crocodiles is determined by the temperature during the incubation process. When the mercury rises, their eggs hatch as females. Now, scientists in Australia think they might have finally cracked the code of this decades-long mystery.

Activities like yoga and meditation are credited with their spiritual benefits, but scientists are discovering a range of physical benefits as well. Now researchers have discovered that activities that link body and mind can actually reverse a genetic process that leads to inflammation and disease.

Endurance racing is a brutal game, where one small fault can be the difference between success and failure – and if ever there was a race to put that in focus, it was this year's Le Mans. Toyota was foiled by poor reliability once again, while Porsche managed to overcome trouble to secure the win.

There are bikes that intimidate. There are bikes that deliver instant confidence. And then there's Suzuki's new middleweight naked machine, which is so easy and fun to ride that it goads you into flogging it every time you dance.

​The market for electric skateboards is becoming rather crowded, and we're seeing more creative ways for riders can move these things around. The Spectra skateboard is the latest example of this, doing away with the typical handheld remote and using sensor pads underfoot for control instead. ​

​When fisherman pulled in their net in the North Sea off the coast of the Netherlands and found a dead porpoise among their haul, they quickly threw the illegal bycatch back into the water. What they didn't know was they were throwing away an extremely rare scientific find.

​Chinese scientists have smashed the quantum entanglement distance record. Transmitting information through entangled photons had previously only been possible to 100 km (62 mi), but using the Micius satellite launched in August, information has effectively been teleported 1,200 km (746 mi).

​​NASA officials have announced some of the first targets to be observed by the much-anticipated James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) following its launch atop an Ariane 5 rocket, which is slated for lift-off in October 2018.