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If you had to guess the street-legal electric car with the best quarter-mile time, the Tesla Model S P85D or Rimac Concept One might immediately pop to mind. What wouldn't pop to mind - the Enfield 8000. But that's the right answer .. well, kind of.

A source of anxiety for many people is the fragility of their smartphone screens. For those who prefer their phone without screen protectors or a bulky protective case, Corning's Gorilla Glass has you covered. The latest version is designed to brush off falls onto hard surfaces from shoulder height.

Crime scene investigators already have plenty to worry about. But now they've got one more foe; squirrels. We’re not joking. The rodents with razor-sharp incisors chew up crime scenes to maintain their dentition, says new research led by James Pokines at the Boston University School of Medicine.

The grass is always greener on the other side, and this may prove especially true if a team of scientists can build on a promising early breakthrough. Researchers have come up with a way to unlock hydrogen from fescue grass, raising the possibility of using turf to power life on Earth.

Nvidia is tempting HTC Vive​ and Oculus Rift​ owners by updating its entire line of graphics cards in the last couple of months. If you own a virtual reality headset and want the best balance between pricing and performance, the GTX 1070 is the current-gen sweet spot GPU.

Road cars are getting more efficient, but they’ve still got a serious drinking problem compared to the super light creations coming out of the world’s universities. The TUfast Eco Team has proven a little energy can go a long way, having created the world’s most efficient electric vehicle.

In its quest to provide remote regions with affordable internet access, Facebook recently conducted its first successful full-scale testing of a critical piece of the puzzle, an internet-broadcasting drone called Aquila that will eventually stay airborne for 90 days at a time. ​​

For scientists who study the Earth's ice – a valuable recorder of the past – the warming of the planet means that their very archives are vanishing. To take action, the Protecting Ice Memory project was launched in 2015. Now it's about to get its first deposit.​

US Special Forces are in for a drier time as Lockheed Martin and Submergence Group LLC sign a US$166 million contract to supply the US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) with a new class of combat submersibles that allows the soldiers to travel inside the vessel.

Joining the ranks of off-road camping trailers built to navigate through and shelter in the most rugged slices of Earth, the new Lotus Off Grid brings a little more luxury than most. So you can get away from the everyday world ... without giving up the parts you actually like.

Backpacks virtually always have the same basic structure: a storage pouch hanging from a set of shoulder straps. The ME-2 dares to be different. This all-new backpack doesn't go over your shoulders at all, instead wrapping around your torso and catching a ride.

Eight gasoline-powered heavy duty propellers. One tube lattice frame, a simple seat and a hobby-grade R/C controller wired in. What could possibly go wrong? This Swedish engineer displays a pair of colossal cojones as he puts his home-made flying carpet to the test.