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It's a kinda alchemy - turning the UK’s electronic waste into gold. Except the gold was already present, but 'recovering' doesn't have quite the same...ring!

Following last week's humorous storage t-shirt, here is more fun for a Friday. We're talking customised, novelty headphones...

Test this! It's the ESA Copernicus Sentinel-5 instrument, which has been delivered to Airbus in France ready to be installed on the first MetOp Second Generation weather satellite.

Pictured is ESA’s EarthCARE satellite being "encapsulated" within its SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fairing, which protects the satellite during the first stages of launch.

Welcome the new electric era of the Atlas robot from Boston Dynamics. Reports of the demise of Atlas, it seems, were greatly exaggerated… It turns out that the previous hydraulic Atlas, which has been retired, was but an evolutionary step towards a robotic Übermensch. The electric version of Atlas will be stronger, says the company, with a broader range of ...

The first "Viasat Beyond: Space", a STEM competition, was recently held at the space company's International Business headquarters in London.

This is what a Moon mission control centre looks like, tasked with supporting operations for missions to a lunar space station, the lunar surface and also further beyond.

Pictured is a Lunar Communications Tower. Constructed by robots, investigating ways to establish a robust communications infrastructure on the moon by the late 2020’s.

Pictured is the next-generation spacesuit for the International Space Station (ISS), which is lighter weight and lower volume than NASA's current spacesuit.

This is the CurveQuad, the mini quadruped robot based on origami. The centimetre-scale device uses curved-crease origami to self-fold, unfold, crawl and steer. This is done using a single motor.