Google has taken over 50,000 panoramic images of the Amazon rainforest, to add to the popular interactive ‘street view’ feature on Google Maps. This allows users to digitally explore the beauty and diversity of this amazing tropical terrain.

Manuel Lima’s new book Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information details the history of visually representing information, exploring not only the dynamic purposes for visually portraying information, but also the visual beauty of data sets.

Volcanoes in Iceland may be employed to pump low-carbon electricity to the UK using the world’s longest high-voltage cable.  Looking for sustainable ways to share Iceland’s abundance of geothermal energy, Energy ministers aim to bring these plans to life within the next decade.

Google has revealed information for the first time about their research into augmented reality glasses.  Using voice activated icons which appear in the wearer’s field of vision the device will enable them to capture images, check the weather report and view diary appointments.

Artists Katie Davies and Peter Walthers have created a 3D-print from the radiation beam of a pulsar star using data from a radio telescope recorded by the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory. The artwork is now on show at the Mixed Signals exhibition at Boston Cyber Arts.

US company Terrafugia has unveiled a prototype car at the New York International Auto Show that is licensed to fly as well as drive. This is the first vehicle to meet all the required standards, making it the first ‘street legal aeroplane’, and may be available as early as next year.

Dan Houldsworth’s solo exhibition Transmission: New Remote Earth Views depicts areas of ideologically and politically charged topography in the American West. Converging art and science, the stark terrains interpret Houldsworth’s empirical methodology through their cultural legacy.

US engineers have invented a hydrogen-powered robot that moves through water like jellyfish. ‘Robojelly’ is the first successful powering of an underwater robot using external hydrogen as a fuel source, and could eventually be used in underwater rescue operations.

Psychologist Richard Wiseman is conducting research for a new smartphone app which could manipulate dreams. Detecting when the sleeper is dreaming, the phone plays a soundscape designed to conjure pleasurable situations in dreams.