Nasa needs you: space agency to crowdsource origami designs for shield
In the search for ways to efficiently pack a radiation shield to protect manned spacecraft on deep space missions, Nasa is looking to the public for help
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Google to radically change homepage for first time since 1996
Search company to integrate its app-based feed of news, events, sports and interest-based topics into Google.com page in the near future
Galaxy Note 8: Samsung’s follow-up to exploding Note 7 to be unveiled on 23 August
Latest Samsung stylus-equipped Note phablet comes after disastrous Note 7 battery issues that led to two recalls and cost the company billions of pounds
Winter has come: Dragon Stone
There is only two Queens and a King for the final battle who will get the iron throne? Queen Cerisei prepare for a war will she find a ally through a marriage? Sansa Stark...
Mercedes-Benz E300 Coupe review: ‘You’ll split your trousers getting into the back’
Mercedes-Benz is having its best ever year – and leading the charge is the imperious new E-Class
Harvard scientists pioneer storage of video inside DNA
Transfer of Eadweard Muybridge’s galloping horse opens possibility of using living cells to store information
KFC’s new smartphone: finger-licking-good or bottom of the bargain bucket?
Who needs Tim Cook? Colonel Sanders is launching a red smartphone with Huawei in China, complete with Snapdragon processor and fingerprint scanner
Our electric car is driving on sunshine
Solar-powered vehicles are here – but are they really the answer?
The great American total solar eclipse
On 21 August the total eclipse makes landfall in Oregon at 10:17 PDT and speeds across the country to leave the coast of South Carolina at 14:48 EDT
Huawei MateBook X review: fanless and full-blooded MacBook Pro rival
Huawei has achieved something quite special with its new laptop that is one of the lightest around without sacrificing power
Forget Alexa, Amazon’s next big product is … wine
World’s largest retailer moves from tech products to its own wine, to revive the ‘direct connection between wine-maker and customer’
Volkswagen Beetle: car review
VW’s quirky coupé has been rejuvenated, and this time it’s gone right back to its roots. Just don’t expect to impress your kids
World’s first trials of MDMA to treat alcohol addiction set to begin
Imperial College London scientists expect to give first dose in the next two months alongside psychotherapy
Men are affected by the biological clock as well, researchers find
Women aged under 30 with a male partner aged 40 to 42 saw chance of live birth after IVF fall to 46% from 73% for men aged 30 to 35
Dacia Stepway Sandero: car review
If low-cost motoring is your game, come on down. And be prepared to be pleasantly surprised by Dacia’s new Stepway Sandero
Twitter may introduce feature to let users flag ‘fake news’
The move would see Twitter follow Facebook, which last year introduced a way for users to report stories they deemed false or inaccurate
Google fined record €2.4bn by EU over search engine results
Brussels claims tech giant abused market dominance by manipulating its search engine results to favour its own comparison shopping service
HMS Queen Elizabeth could be vulnerable to cyber-attack
Royal Navy £3.5bn carrier appears to be running Windows XP, the operating system targeted in NHS ransomware attack
Amazon Fire HD 8 review: easily the best tablet you can buy for £80
The Fire HD 8 has always played second fiddle to its smaller sibling, but with twice the storage, better screen and speakers, that’s no longer the case
Nintendo announces the Mini SNES
Classic 1990s console returns with 21 games including Super Mario Kart, Secret of Mana and an unreleased sequel to Star Fox
