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NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) is keenly interested in nanotechnology – an approach that can reduce the mass and improve the performance of aerospace systems.

NASA's technology development branch has been funding a project called Kilopower for three years and testing is due to start in September, 2017 and end in January 2018.

Meet Lightyear, a Dutch company which is developing solar-powered electric car – the Lightyear One, reportedly capable to "drive for months without charging".

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is certainly not wasting any time with his Boring Company concept.

Lockheed Martin is using turbine rocket combined cycle (TRCC) to build a mach 6-10 hypersonic plane. The TRCC is an engine that switches between turbofan, ramjet and scramjets for subsonic, supersonic, and hypersonic flight. The TRCC engine will be t

A subsidiary of SoftBank has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire robotics pioneer Boston Dynamics from Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL, GOOG). The transaction aligns with SoftBank's investments in paradigm-shifting technologies and its visi

Breakthrough for the generation of fully functional skin tissue and other tissues will follow

Researchers at Swinburne's Centre for Micro-Photonics are one step closer to producing commercially viable, chemical-free, long-lasting, safe batteries.

Space Battleship Yamato is a major anime movie series. The original Yamato movie in Japan eclipsed that of the local release of Star Wars. It was followed by over a dozen movie sequels.

IBM scientists have made carbon nanotube transistors smaller and faster silicon transistors. Carbon nanotube transistors have long had the potential to be better than silicon, but this is the first time when that promise has been realized.

Adam Crowl considers spaceships if EM-Drive is verified as a real thing.

Stable flight of a laser sail is an essential requirement of beam-driven propulsion. Centauri Dreams talked to James Benford about work towards stable beam flight. It places considerable demand upon the shape of the sail and beam.

Although Europe's Space Rider reusable space plane is three years or so from its debut, the European Space Agency (ESA) is already making plans to privatize the unmanned orbital vehicle.

SpaceX nailed its second launch in three days today (June 25) with liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California carrying 10 satellites owned by Iridium Communications.

ORA sound uses the amazing properties of graphene in our proprietary nano-composite formulation to build unique, high performance loudspeaker membranes.

John Martinis, one of Google's quantum computing gurus, laid out Google's "stretch goal": to build and test a 49-qubit ("quantum bit") quantum computer by the end of 2017. This computer will use qubits made of superconducting circuits. Ea

Sure, Ford is working on some sort of electrified F-150 pick-up truck, but whatever that vehicle is, it's a long ways away.

Right now, it prints proteins. In the far future, it could print human babies on Mars.

Doubling the energy density, and thus range of the state-of-the-art electric vehicles to some 620 miles (1,000 km) is the stated goal of Mobile Energy Storage Systems out of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Dresden, Germany.

Oisin Biotechnologies differs from other companies producing senolytic therapies, the name given to treatments that destroy senescent cells, in one very important way.

A recent study, affiliated with UNIST has engineered a new type of carbon nanomaterials, capable of changing shapes and colors depending on the type of solvents used.

It's a lot cheaper than a full-scale H2 station, that's for sure.

Perfect for diabetics.

Whoa.

A gun accident left Rob Spence blind in one eye as a kid. So he put a working camera there.

We've all dreamed of flying -- but for Richard Browning, flight is an obsession. He's built an Iron Man-like suit that leans on an elegant collaboration of mind, body and technology, bringing science fiction dreams a little closer to reality.

Fully electric ship Yara Birkeland to be launched next year Will be controlled remotely in 2019, fully automated by 2020

There's a body of research -- treatments, cures, procedures -- that are afforded by wealthy elites, quietly worked on in private labs and little talked about in the media. The never ending quest for immortality has truly never ended.

According to Lightning Motorcycles, the company intends to test an eMoto capable of traveling from Los Angeles to San Francisco without a recharge. The run is expected to be late this summer or early fall.

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory has two NASA grants.

Many people who use computers and other digital devices are aware that all the words and images displayed on their monitors boil down to a sequence of ones and zeros. But few likely appreciate what is behind those ones and zeros: microscopic arrays o

The Spacex Falcon Heavy will be the most powerful rocket in the world that will be currently flying. There have been more powerful rockets but they are no longer flying. The Falcon heavy will be capable of launching 64 metric tons into Low Earth Orbi

As the United States begins to resemble the fictional world created by George Orwell in his famous novel 1984, more and more companies are being forced to find ways to continue developing new technology while simultaneously respecting the privacy rig

Autonomous vehicles with no human backup will be put to the test on publicly traveled roads as early as next year in what may be the first attempt at unassisted autonomous piloting.

Tesla had its annual shareholders meeting on June 6, 2017 and there were many big announcements in it.

Intel has introduced its new Core X high-performance desktop chips, led by the Core i9-7980XE, its first 18-core processor. It is the first consumer desktop CPU with teraflop performance.

Since August 2016, Karmazin's company, Ambrosia, has been transfusing people aged 35 and older with plasma – the liquid component of blood – taken from people aged between 16 and 25. So far, 70 people have been treated, all of whom paid Ambrosi

'Asgardia' plans to launch a data storage satellite beyond the reach of Earthly laws--an ambitious and problematic goal.

Despite more than 1,700 medical studies1 being performed on coconut oil, it continues to be vilified mainly because 90 percent of its fat content is saturated fat. However, saturated fats, and most particularly coconut oil, are a vital part of the hu

China developing arsenal ship that would have a high speed hydroplaning mode and submersible capability

Compared to multicopters, drones of the fixed-wing variety can travel very long distances thanks to their more efficient shape in the air. One downside to this is the space needed to launch them, along with some sort of mechanism to propel them forwa

Want to learn how to build a cheap house? Look no further.

The life of a sheep is not as cushy as it looks. They suffer injury and infection, and can't tell their human handlers when they're in pain.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy has picked up steam over the last few years as a number of studies have demonstrated that treatment's many health benefits. In fact, the intervention was credited for the cancer remission of a New York-based woman.

Finally, it seems that the mainstream medical community is beginning to appreciate the significance of medical cannabis and its many medicinal uses.

Superbug apocalypse rapidly approaching as nearly one-quarter of infections now UNTREATABLE with first line antibiotics

You can't squeeze blood from a stone, but wringing water from the desert sky is now possible, thanks to a new spongelike device that uses sunlight to suck water vapor from air, even in low humidity.

Commercial delivery drones are already taking flight, but before the system really gets off the ground, there are plenty of big-picture details to sort out.

At the heart of many of today's 3D printers is a stationary print bed, which means that if you want to print a really, really long object like a company logo for above the office door or hollow tubing, it would likely take several print runs and some

The judges acknowledge the threat that hobby drones can pose, but says the law ties their hands.