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NIO has announced that its EP9 all-electric supercar (read more about it here) set a world speed record for autonomous electric cars at the Circuit of the Americas (COTA) in Austin, Texas back on February 23. The new record stands at 160 mph. NIO EP9

A new study out of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) has found that one part of the neurons in our brains is more active than previously revealed.

A burger-flipping robot has just completed its first day on the job at a restaurant in California, replacing humans at the grill.

Chris Bertish arrives in Antigua after 4,050 miles in 93 days, the first person ever to paddle a stand-up board across the ocean

For artificial general intelligence (AGI) it would be efficient if multiple users trained the same giant neural network, permitting parameter reuse, without catastrophic forgetting. PathNet is a first step in this direction.

The Goodyear Eagle 360 Urban, the first concept tire powered by artificial intelligence, presented at the Geneva International Motor Show 2017

Air travel never involves air travel alone. City to city transport usually goes something like car or cab to train to shuttle to the terminal where you catch a plane, only to reverse the process at the other end, often with a little running somewhere

Why Planes Don't Fly Faster

The Wi-Fi icon -- a dot with radio waves radiating outward -- glows on nearly every internet-connected device, from the iPhone to thermostats to TVs. But it's starting to fade from the limelight.

Beijing (AP) -- China is developing an advanced new spaceship capable of both flying in low-Earth orbit and landing on the moon, according to state media, in another bold step for a space program that equaled the U.S. in number of rocket launches las

This gorgeous hotel is constructed from shipping containers and left the landscape untouched.

(Natural News) Dr. Robert Kleinwaks was battling stage 4 non-Hodgkins lymphoma - and losing badly. After trying a long list of alternative and mainstream therapies without success, Dr. Kleinwaks - who described his condition as "weeks away from

could self supporting and rapidly growing space economy ... Several companies will collectively be launching about 20,000 satellites over the next few years. SpaceX, OneWeb, Telesat, O3b Networks and Theia Holdings -- all told the FCC they hav

Blackphone is the world's first smartphone built from the ground up to be private by design. Now with a faster processor, more RAM and a larger display.

Volkswagen unveiled Sedric at the Geneva Motor Show. It's a bizarre looking vehicle, clearly not suitable for anything but the best-paved roads.

Machine learning is a fascinating and exciting field within computer science. Recently, this excitement has been transferred to the quantum information realm.

Simulation shows the New Glenn landing on a drone ship

Most people are familiar with the fundamental, common states of matter – solid, liquid, gas and plasma – but other states exist under extreme circumstances, and yet more have been theorized.

The company thinks this electric three-seater would appeal to women between 30 and 50 years old.

China will develop a new generation of rockets launched from aircraft that can put satellites into space, according to Li Tongyu, the head of carrier rocket development at the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology.

It was designed by California company Hyperloop One, who has unveiled ambitious plans to transport people or cargo between cities at near-supersonic speed.

Artificial human life could soon be grown from scratch in the lab, after scientists successfully created a mammal embryo using only stem cells.

Thanks to the superposition principle, a quantum machine has the potential to become an exponentially more powerful computer. If that makes little sense to you, here's quantum computing explained.

(Natural News) Scientists are finally beginning to uncover some of the chemical mechanisms underlying the powerful medical benefits of marijuana and its cannabinoid compounds.

"African Green Monkey Kidney Cells" and fibroblast cells from aborted human fetuses … see the complete list

speech, motion control and adaptive robotic control ... Neuromorphic (brain-like brain inspired chips) chips require far less power to process AI algorithms. For example, one neuromorphic chip made by IBM contains five times as many transistors

from sunlight on the fast track to commercial viability ...Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have--in just two years--nearly doubled

An inflatable structure(s) can generate a magnetic dipole field at a level of perhaps 1 or 2 Tesla (or 10,000 to 20,000 Gauss) as an active shield against the solar wind and allow the Martian atmosphere to thicken overtime.

IBM Q is an industry-first initiative to build a commercially available universal quantum computers for business and science

The pace the drone industry moves at is terrifying.

Cannabis is not the only plant that contains medically beneficial cannabinoids, although it has driven the research to understand the powerful therapeutic properties of these plant compounds. In actuality, there are several plants that are also rich

There's no doubt about it, this technology is a game-changer.

Given that "redneck" and "hillbilly" remain the last acceptable stereotypes among polite society, it isn't surprising that the stereotypical urban home of poor, recently rural whites remains an object of scorn.

Not too long ago, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company was just one of many little craft breweries popping up all over the U.S. Now, it's mainstream and produces a pale ale that most beer lovers have enjoyed. Sierra Nevada just added Tesla Powerpack batte

Tesla battery packs are considered state-of-the-art, and have some of the highest energy density capacity in the industry.

Sending tourists for a trip around the moon is the latest big idea launched by Elon Musk, a Silicon Valley star known for turning his passions into visionary enterprises.

Blue Origin could bring Bezos's shipping empire to deep space

According to researchers at the University of Minnesota (UM), over 60 percent of the hearts and lungs donated for transplantation every year need to be disposed of because they can't be stored on ice for longer than four hours.

Continuing on its mission to open up the space frontier, Virgin Galactic has spun off a new company dedicated to launching small satellites.

More than four decades after the last man walked on the lunar surface, several upstart space entrepreneurs are looking to capitalize on NASA's renewed interest in returning to the moon, offering a variety of proposals with the ultimate goal of establ

Huge inflatable descended from 11 miles in the sky, above remote town in Brazil Project Loon comes from X, a lab under Google's parent company Alphabet The firm has since apologised for 'surprising' locals in the Autazes area

A vest designed to shield astronauts from deadly solar particles in deep space is set for trials on a lunar mission ready for deployment on any manned mission to Mars, its Israeli developers said.

Scientists at Rice University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Chile offered a glimpse into a possible new path toward controlled nuclear fusion.

A French teenager's sickle cell disease has been reversed using a pioneering gene therapy treatment. The world-first procedure at Necker Children's Hospital in Paris offers hope to millions of people with the blood disorder.

Researchers from The University of Manchester have shown that it is possible to build a new super-fast form of computer that "grows as it computes".

Inductive heating of Magnetic Nanoparticles enables safe thawing of cryopreserved transplant organs

How fast and impactful will artificial intelligence, new wave automation and robotics be on job markets ?

This designer is looking forward to the future.

Ground-breaking research led by Prof Stefano Sanvito, Director of the CRANN Institute at Trinity College Dublin and Investigator in the Science Foundation Ireland funded centre AMBER, .....