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GALLERY

Sustainable living in a 6-metre-square space See compact, eco-friendly designs for prefabricated housing to fill unused urban spaces 鈥� from tree houses to floating homes

VIDEO

Cyborg beetles steered from afar Fitting a large beetle with an antenna and connecting electrodes to its brain and muscles makes it possible to pilot the insect like a radio-controlled plane

TECH

European Union law could limit iPod volume Users of portable music players are at risk of damaging their hearing, say EU regulators. Future gadgets could be forced to limit the volume to 鈥渟afe levels鈥� and to warn users not to try to exceed them

SPACE

Rocket company tests world鈥檚 most powerful ion engine For the first time, a plasma engine that could be used to boost the space station鈥檚 orbit has been fired at full power. The development takes us a step closer to rockets that could use charged particles to propel superfast missions to Mars

GAME THEORY

Sports stars are oh-so predictable According to game theory, professional baseball pitchers and American football players do not keep their opponents guessing as much as they should

BLOG

Creationism and cymbals clash The T-shirt worn by a Missouri school band is the latest battleground in the war between proponents of evolution and creationism. There are claims that the T-shirt is incompatible with the US constitutional division between church and state

VODCAST

New 杏吧原创鈥榮 monthly video round-up Follow us to an insect festival, meet some ultra-realistic dinosaurs and see a huge camera obscura