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NASA has just released two spectacular flyover videos, of Pluto and its largest moon Charon, created from the New Horizons data offering us the most intimate look yet at our distant icy friends.

Top-tier architecture firm BIG has completed a subterranean museum amid the sand dunes in western Denmark's Blåvand shoreline, next to a World War II-era bunker. Named Tirpitz, the museum depicts the history of the Second World War.

Twenty million sterile male mosquitoes are set to be released across two neighborhoods in Fresno County, California. This will be the largest mosquito field study ever conducted in the US with an aim of curbing the population of the disease-carrying insect.​

If help comes quickly enough, the heart can be restarted after a person has officially died, but the resulting brain damage can be devastating. Now doctors have successfully reversed the brain damage of a two-year-old drowning victim, using oxygen therapy techniques.

The US Navy has brought signal lamp ship-to-ship communications into the texting age. It is testing a signal lamp retrofitted with the Flashing Light to Text Converter (FLTC) system, which allows sailors who aren't experts in Morse code to quickly send and receive messages.

We've seen a lot of creative ways to brew coffee on the move, but many require an external heat source for bringing the water up to temperature. The self-heating Bripe Coffee Brew Pipe kit makes brewing truly pocket-size, putting a shot of coffee in a pipe.

​​If you want a guitar that's dripping with history then you can either hit the auctions or grab yourself an instrument made using wood from old buildings. Fender has chosen the latter for a limited edition Telecaster from Yuriy Shishkov​ that makes use of bench boards from the Hollywood Bowl.​

Stringed instruments bowed by a wheel cranked by hand have been around for centuries, and come in many shapes and sizes. Inspired by 16th century instruments, model maker UGears has launched a self assembly hurdy gurdy kit on Kickstarter that should appeal to wooden puzzle fans and musicians alike.

​Dodge set the internet alight with the Demon earlier this year, but it's been busy on other projects as well. It doesn't get the full gamut of drag features from the Demon, but the new Hellcat Widebody borrows from its unhinged big brother to deliver more grip and a meaner, more imposing stance.

Many travel adapters are designed wish fuses to protect electronics from surges, but replacing them and lugging spares around can be a hassle. To lighten the load, Zendure has announced the Passport, a new travel adapter with an auto-resetting fuse built in.

​In the past, “mind reading” systems have been able to guess a number, but deeper thoughts have been beyond the technology’s reach. Now, a team from Carnegie Mellon University has developed a way to accurately read more complex concepts from a brain scan, and even piece together entire sentences.

We can grow human skin in the laboratory but it hasn't been possible to do the same with non-mammals – until now. Scientists have successfully reconstructed the skin of a green sea turtle as part of a study to learn more about a virus infection that threatens the endangered reptile species.