With electric cars a growing reality on the ground, a small Aussie tech company has joined the global race to take the technology to the skies in electric-powered planes.

A NASA researcher has grown bacteria that survived thousands of years inside crystals.

Smart kitchen scales promise to provide all sorts of extra information to the home cook – but is that a dumb idea?

Blending the familiar fun of plastic, colourful bricks with a surprisingly complicated robot-building kit and code-writing primer, Lego Boost is part educational tool and part amazingly geeky high-tech toy.

What if you're putting yourself out there as a thought leader advising companies how to build brands on social media, but you tweet a lewd suggestion to a reporter whose story you don't like? Nothing much good, as Ryan Holmes knows.