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AS FAR AS sporting trophies go, it's hard to find any older than the America's Cup. Sailing teams have been fighting over the ornate, sterling silver ewer since 1851.

Dubai has tested a Chinese prototype of a self-driving hover-taxi, its transport authority said on Monday, with the aim of introducing the aerial vehicle in the emirate by July.

For the past year, Google's car project has been a talent sieve, thanks to leadership changes, strategy doubts, new startup dreams and rivals luring self-driving technology experts.

The satellite company Planet is used to breaking records. In 2014, a rocket exploded with a payload of the company's satellites inside--26, the biggest loss ever.

When Edward Snowden leaked the biggest collection of classified National Security Agency documents in history, he wasn't just revealing the inner workings of a global surveil­lance machine.

(Natural News) The emergence of drug-resistant superbugs is fast escalating into a worldwide crisis. In the U.S. alone, around 23,000 people are killed by superbugs each year, according to statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prev

(Natural News) The demand for organic food has grown so dramatically in recent years that experts are likening it to a "gold rush mentality," as producers scramble to transition their fields to earn organic certification.

Superbugs are on the rise, with a UK government report last year warning that they could kill 10 million people a year by 2050.

Dutch flying car developer PAL-V is aiming to make good on its promise to be first to market

The tech industry is stressed about losing foreign workers, but the space industry never had the choice to begin with.

In response to Amazon Enters Trillion Dollar Ocean Freight Business: How Many Jobs Will Vanish? a reader commented fully autonomous ships will not be here until 2050. Actually, 2020-2025 seems like a realistic timeline.

Experiments that let a paralyzed person swig coffee using a robotic arm, or that let blind people "see" spots of light, have proven the huge potential of computers that interface with the brain.

YK Bae can now amplify photonic laser thrust by 1500 times and if combined with military grade lasers and targeting would enable fast and hyperefficient space transportation

A few years ago, there was a flurry of interest in compressed-air cars--but, forgive the pun, that seemed to deflate quickly.

The Dutch Electoral Council reportedly rejected a payment in Bitcoin from the country's Pirate Party to participate in upcoming elections.

In 2015, the Michigan Micro Mote constituted the first complete, operational computer system measuring as small as two millimeters across.

A major advance in daytime radiative cooling.

Tesla has told suppliers it planned to begin test-building its Model 3 sedans on Feb. 20, according to people familiar with the matter, a move that could allay concerns about the company meeting its target to start production in July.

A Nigerian developer wants to start building the bitcoin network in the region.

Google's neural networks have achieved the dream of CSI viewers everywhere: the company has revealed a new AI system capable of "enhancing" an eight-pixel square image, increasing the resolution 16-fold and effectively restoring lost data.

As electric cars become more common, manufacturers are battling to find new ways to improve their hardware and lower costs.

Billionaire pays for research into 'neural recording', a creepy-sounding technique which could change the lives of people suffering serious illnesses

Diagnosing diseases quickly and easily in poor regions

Italian researchers studied the safety of vaccines currently in use. (1) They examined 44 types of vaccines to verify if there was physical contamination in the vaccines. Although the vaccines were obtained from two countries (France and Italy), th

"We want to help with human expansion into deep spaces on Earth, Mars, and beyond."

'The New Radical,' a documentary about 28-year-old Cody Wilson, premiered at Sundance, but not without contention. We spoke to Wilson and filmmaker Adam Bhala Lough to find out why.

Imagine that constructing a road would take days instead of months. That roads would last three times as long. That maintenance and traffic disruption are things of the past. And that cable and piping problems as well as the urban water problem are s

What is going to happen to society when robots are able to do just about everything better, faster and cheaper than human workers can?

We snooze to lose.

While the act of picking up an object is something most of us take for granted, for prostheses users, it can be an exercise in frustration. For all their promise, brain-controlled bionic arms, both invasive and non-invasive, are still not ready to le

Britain's railway industry has moved to make life easier for future commuters, laying out a roadmap to modernize its transport systems for the digital era.

AMERICA IS NOT the great melting pot that poets like Ralph Waldo Emerson once extolled. At least, that's not the story that DNA tells, according to the genealogy company Ancestry.

Innocorp has a new drone that is a flying submarine.

Few scenes capture the U.S. Navy's prowess as effectively as the rapid-fire takeoff and recovery of combat jets from the deck of an aircraft carrier.

When The Six Million Dollar Man first aired in the Seventies, with its badly injured astronaut being rebuilt with machine parts, the TV show seemed a far-fetched fantasy.

Over the past several years, DARPA-funded researchers have pioneered RNA vaccine technology, a medical countermeasure against infectious diseases that uses coded genetic constructs to stimulate production of viral proteins in the body, which in turn

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have demonstrated the world's first laser based on an unconventional wave physics phenomenon called bound states in the continuum.

Elon Musk indicates that about 75 percent of the vehicle's costs are in the first stage booster.

Engineers at MIT have fabricated transparent gel robots that can perform a number of fast, forceful tasks, including kicking a ball underwater, and grabbing and releasing a live fish.

What do you get when you give a design tool a digital nervous system? Computers that improve our ability to think and imagine, and robotic systems that come up with (and build) radical new designs for bridges, cars, drones and much more -- all by th

Hiroshima University, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, and Panasonic Corporation announced the development of a terahertz (THz) transmitter capable of transmitting digital data at a rate exceeding 100 gigabits (= 0.1 t

How do you set up an accredited university? You buy one. Then you convert it into a 100% online school.

The best Super Bowl halftime shows leave indelible memories, be it a notorious wardrobe malfunction, that goofy Left Shark, or every last second of Beyoncé's two appearances. It's too soon to say whether anything Lady Gaga did tonight will reson

Marco Polo altered the course of human history with a three-and-a-half-year journey between Venice and Beijing. Today, the world is far smaller. On a commercial airline, one can travel between those two cities in half a day.

Process for producing ammonia that generates electricity instead of consuming energy. 500 million tons of ammonia are made each year for fertilizer

The Google Word Lens app is now available in Japanese. You'll never have to worry about taking a wrong turn on a busy Shibuya street or ordering something you wouldn't normally eat.

The electronic data connections within and between microchips are increasingly becoming a bottleneck in the exponential growth of data traffic worldwide.

Elon Musk tweets picture of his tunneling machine as he plans to make tunneling up to ten times faster

REZA GHAZINOURI REMEMBERS the importance of pirate radio as a teenager growing up in in the city of Mashhad in northeast Iran. His father tuned in multiple times a day to the banned Farsi version of the BBC transmitted from neighboring countries, to

Most batteries are composed of two solid, electrochemically active layers called electrodes, separated by a polymer membrane infused with a liquid or gel electrolyte.