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The high-performance NSX from Acura will be a platform for hybrid technology and lightweighting.

Audi and Volvo will roll out luxury electric cars in the U.S. market early next year.

It's the company's first foray into electrics — a sporty hatchback A3 — and it's coming to the U.S. early next year.

How about bringing the Concept B, a very cool 5-door hybrid, to the U.S.? Sorry, only for China. That aggravating truth plays out again and again.

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For Japanese artist Baku Maeda, honoring the natural world means whipping out some scissors and cutting plants up into pixel-like square bits.

If you have an indoor cat, you have a litter box. Finding a good place to keep the box is tricky, especially if you live in a small place. Here are some ideas.

New Zealand filmmaker showcases free-spirited seniors embracing death by building and decorating their own coffins.

These 9 edible flowers will boost your cold beverage game.

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The autonomous aircraft Mars Helicopter heralds the beginning of a new era in our exploration of the red planet.

As part of its mission to analyze Bennu, OSIRIS-REx has set a new record for closest orbit of a planetary body by a spacecraft.

Gather your friends, look up into the sky, and get ready to witness absolutely nothing.

Elon Musk's cherry red Tesla Roadster, which was shot into space aboard the Falcon Heavy rocket, is currently on cruise control at a leisurely 34,000 mph.

Annual celestial event often produces large bright fireballs that scorch the night sky.

After landing rovers and its spacecraft on the surface of asteroid Ryugu, JAXA is returning with a sample.

One scientist found the farthest spot from a McDonald's restaurant in the U.S. -- and went there, eating McDonald's fare all the way.

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