Clemson University

A team at Clemson University has come up with a new design that overcomes some of the problems with incorporating silicon into lithium-ion batteries, demonstrating a lightweight device that could be used to power satellites and spacesuits.

Clemson University students have put their burgeoning know-how to use imagining what the Mini of 2025 might look like. The two-door features a scalable powertrain, open interior, appearance-shifting digital paint and a few other innovations that may one day show up on Minis and cars of all sizes.

By building a robotic version of the mudskipper fish, scientists have learned that its tail plays a crucial role while it's crawling on the land – the finding could have implications for the design of walking robots.​

Generation Z is weird. At least that's the impression we're left with after seeing them through automakers' eyes. Those eyes bring us the Toyota uBox. Designed for Generation Z drivers, the uBox finds a middle ground somewhere between the minivan, SUV and armored truck.