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In areas where clean water isn't easily accessible, solar stills can help purify available water that might be dirty or salty.

AI has claimed some sizable scalps in recent years, with IBM's Watson toppling humans at Jeopardy and Google's AlphaGo program taking down a professional Go player last year.

Media professionals dealing with data-heavy formats such as RAW and 4K will soon have a new option for their toolkits, with Lexar announcing a new 512 GB CFast memory card.

Online grocer Ocado has shown off a soft robotic hand that can pick fruit and vegetables, without damaging them, in its warehouses.

Hundreds of people jostle for a good view as engineers in matching t-shirts load a sleek capsule into what looks like a submarine hatch fixed to the end of a giant tube. Hundreds more have claimed seats in the bleachers, searching for a bit of shade

The Spanish ACCIONA 100% EcoPowered has become the first ever zero emission, all-electric vehicle to complete the Dakar Rally.

Researchers at Harvard University say they've managed to create a potentially revolutionary material that has only been imagined in theory for the past several decades: solid metallic hydrogen.

Five finalist teams in the Google Lunar XPRIZE have been set, and they all have rocket launch contracts to go to the Moon in 2017.

Medicinal Genomics uses state-of-the-art DNA technology to better understand cannabis genetics and develop products that help growers, dispensaries, and testing laboratories ensure the safety and quality of cannabis.

This week D-Wave, a leader in the nascent field of quantum computing, unveiled its latest machine, D-Wave 2000Q, as well as its first customer: a cybersecurity firm called Total Digital Security.

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Helen of Troy, according to the Odyssey, was "the face that launched a thousand ships," prior to the Greek invasion of Troy.

The U.S. Navy is moving at warp speed to develop lasers with more lethality, precision and power sources as a way to destroy attacking missiles, drones aircraft and other threats.

D-Wave is also working on a fifth model, which will provide even greater capacity and connectivity and a closer fit to scientists' needs.

A construction robot has to be powerful enough to handle heavy material, small enough to enter standard buildings, and flexible enough to navigate the terrain.

Computer scientists at Stanford set out to create an artificially intelligent diagnosis algorithm for skin cancer. They made a database of nearly 130,000 skin disease images and trained their algorithm to visually diagnose potential cancer. From the

Elon Musk thinks being stuck in traffic is "soul-destroying" -- but, he has a solution: tunnels. Musk has been tweeting about tunnels for a month now, and even said he's going to build a tunnel boring machine and start digging. In developed ci

Arjun Nepal, Postdoctoral Research Associate & Instructor for the Department of Physics at Kansas State University, walks through a special process of mass producing graphene in the K-State Detonation Physics Laboratory.

The race to become the first private entity to land a robot on the Moon is heating up, as five teams close in on the Google Lunar XPrize. The final heat of candidates were winnowed down from dozens of contenders that couldn't clear hurdles or meet

Off-grid housing that actually works for families is hard to come by, but that's what ReGen Villages is striving towards with their concept for new self-sustaining communities.

A Kansas State University team of physicists has discovered a way to mass-produce graphene with three ingredients: hydrocarbon gas, oxygen and a spark plug.

Over the past few years, some people have taken drones from small almost toy devices for carrying a cameras to mini aircraft that are capable carrying a single person.

From a fishing drone, to a drone that can shoot balls, here are 10 NEW Drone Inventions You Must See....

As unconventional wind turbines go, the flapping machine introduced by Tunisian company Tyer Wind is on the far edge of quirky.

5 years ago, I came down with a bad upper respiratory infection. I was taking over the counter medicines, but none seemed to work and I was worried about secondary infections. My wife grandmother suggested I make a mustard plaster (poultice) for my c

Dubai has certainly been a big supporter of out-there technology projects in recent years. Among its supercar police fleet, crime detection algorithms, drone racing facilities, underwater Hyperloop projects and floating luxury homes, the city has sho

Robotic arms are moving out of large-scale factories and into homes or small businesses, and are increasingly used to help disabled people feed themselves and perform other tasks. Price is a problem though, so outside of some very specific use cases,

1.2 billion people currently do not have electricity. It costs $800-2000 per person to connect people to a grid many poor countries do not the means or capacity to create a universal national grid.

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ONE OF THESE SPACECRAFT COULD BECOME THE FIRST PRIVATE SPACECRAFT TO LAND ON THE MOON

Researchers have demonstrated the high-performance potential of an experimental transistor made of a semiconductor called beta gallium oxide, which could bring new ultra-efficient switches for applications such as the power grid, military ships and a

Roam Robotics wants to create light and affordable exoskeletons that will be usable by a lot of people for everyday use.

Once the goods have arrived, the drones biodegrade in a matter of days

Already renowned for its potential to revolutionize everything from light bulbs and dental fillings through to semiconductors and motorcycle helmets, graphene can now add innate superconductivity to its repertoire.

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Silicon crystals are the semiconductors most commonly used to make transistors, which are critical electronic components used to carry out logic operations in computing.

Researchers have found a way to trigger the innate, but previously hidden, ability of graphene to act as a superconductor - meaning that it can be made to carry an electrical current with zero resistance.

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Airbus working on flying cars, flying buses, ridesharing flying vehicles and drone product delivery

. They also demonstrate that superconductors with critical temperatures beyond 504 K (231 Celsius) are obtained by alkanes with 16 or more carbon atoms.

Things are developing fairly quickly in the world of Jetpack Aviation. After a bunch of public flights in Europe, the team has announced it's selected its first guinea pig civilian test pilot, who will be trained up and given the chance to fly the ex

Electric, driverless shuttles with no steering wheel and no brake pedal are now operating in Las Vegas.

A single HMSR (Hybrid Fusion Fission Molten Salt Reactor) is designed to produce 5 GW thermal power at 700 C, thermal conversion systems should be able to generate 2.1 GW gross electricity.

Spacex has a successful return to flight. The mission was a success with successful deployment of all satellites and the first stage landed on the drone ship

A German artist has revealed a new technology that he hopes will make it easier for individuals to avoid the growing Surveillance State.

A new commercial manufacturing process for carbon nanotubes (CNTs) produces tubes in the range of 1-10 mm in length (5-12-nm dia.), two orders of magnitude longer than currently available CNTs, which typically have lengths from 5-20µm.

A father and son team in the START-UP NY program have invented a liquid metal printing machine that could represent a significant transformation in manufacturing.

Remember the luxury zero emission Solarwave 62 catamaran designs from the end of 2015?

Scientists restore long-term vision in blind mice, making a case for addressing the immune system's role in rejecting transplanted cells