In a mix of the old and the new, Lockheed Martin is recycling a Space Shuttle cargo container to create a prototype deep space habitat for NASA. The full-scale experimental module to be built at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida will be used to test technologies to provide astronauts with a safe living space that can operate autonomously when there is no one on board.

• Lockheed Martin
• NASA
• Orion Spacecraft

• Lockheed Martin plans manned Mars Base Camp for 2028
• Orion arrives at Kennedy Space Center
• Lockheed Martin using 3D-printed parts in military satellites
• Pilot-optional helicopter and drones work together to fight fires and rescue "missing" person
• New Dry Combat Submersible to carry troops to mission areas scuba-free
• NASA's supersonic X-plane project passes key milestone

Biometrics are poised to play a larger role in airport security, with facial recognition set to replace passports in Australia and the US and France looking into similar solutions. Delta is onboard with this kind of thinking, so to speak, and from today is allowing some passengers to board flights using nothing but their fingers.

• Airports
• Biometrics
• Fingerprint

• Biometric Mastercard features an embedded fingerprint sensor
• LG's invisible fingerprint sensor hides beneath the smartphone screen
• Remote controller has your fingerprints all over it
• Qualcomm enables under display fingerprint scanning for smartphones
• Synaptics aims to tighten security with self-contained fingerprint ID system
• New fingerprinting tech is more than skin-deep

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has made his name by using cardboard and wood to craft low-cost disaster housing, and he will need to be at his enterprising and creative best as he tackles his next big project. The 2014 Pritzker prize winner has signed on to design thousands of new shelters in a major refugee settlement in Kenya, where he will have to make do with harsh conditions and limited resources.

• Disasters
• Emergency Housing

• Disaster by design: Innovative emergency relief shelters
• Maggie aimed at offering refugees a better shelter
• Prototype shelter offers basic home for displaced Nepalese
• Aid Innovation Challenge - Finalists announced
• SHoP plans 50 new schools for earthquake-struck Nepal
• University of Copenhagen opens Center for Disaster Research

Lugging heavy loads around a construction site or large garden in a wheelbarrow can be enough to leave you out of puff or in pain. The BeastBarrow attachment puts an extra wheel at the back that swivels into turns and takes some of the strain.

• Dual-personality expedition pickup equipped for adventures of all kinds
• DJI Spark vs. Parrot Bebop 2
• Katja and Miracle Mike (the Nitrous-breathing Indian Scout named after a headless chicken)
• 25 most interesting motorcycles at Mecum's June Las Vegas auctions
• DJI Spark vs. Yuneec Breeze
• New Audi A8 creates a brilliant harmony of style, tech and luxury

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the finalists for this year's Stirling Prize competition, the most prestigious award in British architecture. The six projects include a crowdfunded pier, a photographer's studio, and an eye-catching apartment building.

• Building and Construction
• Competition
• RIBA

• British architecture competition showcases fresh talent
• The good, the bad and the bonkers: eVolo's 2017 Skyscraper Competition
• Britain's best buildings vie for UK architecture's top spot
• Damien Hirst's art gallery wins UK's top architecture prize
• RIBA announces 2015 Stirling Prize Shortlist
• American Institute of Architects highlights the best housing in the US

The European Space Agency's LISA Pathfinder satellite was shut down this week, after 16 months of service in the hunt for gravitational waves. But this is only the beginning: the Pathfinder satellite was a testbed for technology that will eventually be used in the main LISA mission, which is set to become the largest gravitational wave observatory ever built.

• Decommissioning
• ESA
• gravitational waves
• LIGO
• Satellite

• New telescope is the GOTO for seeing gravitational waves
• Violence detected: Sensors hit by second set of gravitational waves
• Gravitational-wave hunter LISA turns out to be a true high performer
• Newly-discovered galaxies are "outrageously luminous"
• Astronomers set out to unravel creation of first supermassive black holes
• Gravity's light-bending effect seen in the dance of distant stars

Along with big car manufacturers, a group of automotive suppliers is working tirelessly to bring autonomous vehicles to our roads. Continental, which also has concepts designed to improve in-car audio and security, will be running a concept autonomous car around its Frankfurt facility to try and fine-tune the way driverless cars navigate the complex city environment.

• Autonomous Vehicles
• Continental
• Self-Driving

• Triceratops-like dinosaur tooth fills gap in history of American continent
• Continental details speaker-free in-car audio systems
• Better security and customization when your car recognizes you
• Bentley Continental GT3-R: The gentleman's racer
• Continental's new window tinting tech is on the button
• Continental's "infrared curtain" could add multi-touch functionality to cheap cars

Christopher Nolan's war epic Dunkirk is currently rolling out the widest 70mm release of any film in 25 years. With digital cameras and projectors dominating the film industry Nolan is one of several celluloid purists working in Hollywood today. With Dunkirk he has doubled down on his devotion to celluloid shooting most of the film not only on film but on large-format IMAX film stock. The resulting feature is being screened in a variety formats around the world but Nolan has suggested the ideal way to watch his opus is in IMAX theaters on 15/70 IMAX film.

• Film Cameras
• Filmmaking

• Snowden: Criminal or patriot? Oliver Stone’s new film takes no prisoners
• How VR is rewriting the rules of storytelling
• DJI Ronin 2 takes the camera gimbal to a new level
• Hollywood and Hacking: The 1980s - kid hackers, nerds and Richard Pryor
• IBM's Watson supercomputer creates a movie trailer
• Can A.I. write a Hollywood film?

Every fundamental particle in the universe has an antiparticle, which has the same mass but the opposite charge. If a particle should ever meet its antiparticle, the two would annihilate each other in a flash of energy. But it's long been theorized that there's an exception to the rule, with certain particles that are actually their own antiparticles. Now, scientists from Stanford and the University of California have found the first strong evidence for this type of particle, which they dub the "angel particle."

• Antimatter
• Elementary particles
• Fermions
• Particle physics
• Stanford University
• University of California

• Terahertz radiation to enable portable particle accelerators
• Tiny particles mimic the body's pancreas cells to combat type 1 diabetes
• "Programmable" cement particles make for stronger concrete
• Triple drug nanoparticle delivery may lead to better cancer treatments
• Sunlight-activated nanoparticles could clean up oil sands pollution on the cheap
• Massless particle discovery could radically accelerate electronics

It's not cheap, but this twin-unit router system from Netgear floods a larger area with a stronger, faster Wi-Fi connection than anything else on the market. The Orbi system is super quick and easy to set up, and offers exceptional performance for homes with lots of high-bandwidth devices.

• Home Networking
• Netgear
• Routers

• First 802.11ac routers emerge promising faster WiFi at greater range
• Netgear moves into baby monitoring with cute customizable cameras
• Netgear's wireless security camera lets you scream at thieves from afar
• 200 Mbps Powerline Solution
• Netgear introduces 3DHD Wireless Home Theater Kit
• Netgear’s new set-top boxes connect internet video to TV