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In response to Humanoid Robots to Manufacture Planes, reader "XBE", a 37-year ex-Boeing employee, pinged me with a few comments on robots and trends in the number of people it takes to build a plane.

Stephen Hawking wants a ride. Do you?

Scientists have successfully printed a functional human ear that is ready for transplanting.

Take everything you know about data storage and set it aside, because a breakthrough from a research team at the University of Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Center (ORC) could change everything.

concrete 100 MILES away to be ready in 2018...A radical new weapon that can fire a shell at seven times the speed of sound could be used by the Navy as soon as 2018. Described as 'Star Wars technology' by researchers, the rail gun can fire a shell w

Almost good enough to be transplanted into humans

Scientists have long been on a quest to find a way to implant electrodes that interface with neurons into the human brain.

The government is already spying on us through spying on us through our computers, phones, cars, buses, streetlights, at airports and on the street, via mobile scanners and drones, through our credit cards and smart meters (update), television, doll,

Ir has been a couple of months since WUWT has checked in on the progress of solar cycle 24.

The five-year race to preserve every neuron in the brain has come to a successful close

WPI working on algorithms for 5-foot, 10-inch robot that would fight fires, perform maintenance

If you believe the hype, you're soon going to have wearable electronics strapped, wrapped and dangling all over your body.

Scientists have used stem cells for everything from regrowing corneas to inducing the heart to repair itself, and it might even be possible to use them to heal damaged lungs.

Using solar technology to harvest fresh water, this cool invention has the potential to make a huge difference to the world.

Make your own portable hot packs

The voyages of "Star Trek's" USS Enterprise now include an extensive restoration at the hands of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

95 PERCENT 3D-PRINTED, 5 PERCENT OTHER

"The Indian, in his simple philosophy, was careful to avoid a centralized population, wherein lies civilization's devil.

Science has turned its torch to many corners of the animal kingdom in the pursuit of advanced adhesives.

Scientists from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have created a tiny lattice they claim is the world's smallest.

The rapid and on-going development of micro-miniature optical electronic devices is helping to usher in a new era of photonic computers and light-based memories that promise super-fast processor speeds and ultra-secure communications.

Regardless of how many #10 cans of "just-add-water-ready-to-eat" stuff you have, at some point you're going to have to learn to use a kitchen in much the same way as your granny or your great-granny did, so we've put together this list of 38

Aerogel is the material of the future-- if you can make it work for you. The substance, a foam made of mostly air and either silica or carbon, is great for insulating, but it's traditionally been brittle and difficult to work with.

WITH ELON MUSK IN ATTENDANCE, THE TEAM BESTED 120-PLUS COMPETITORS

Imagine the travel vehicle of the future and you probably don't picture a caravan.

The US city of Louisville, KY, is set to become home to a major new vertical farm. The FarmedHere facility will be part of the new 24-ac (9.7-ha) West Louisville FoodPort that will be home to a community of food-related businesses. It will grow micro

A team at Stanford claims to have made a battery breakthrough that could boost the performance of lithium-ion batteries and also make them smaller and lighter.

The ambitious idea by Trevorrow, who is coming off the second-highest grossing film of 2015 with "Jurassic World," would be a first for the "Star Wars" franchise, but it doesn't sound like it's the first time it's been thought about.

The SpaceX and Tesla founder said this week that he personally wants to visit space within the next five years and thinks that his company will launch a mission to Mars by 2025.

Nowadays when you hear the word "spam," you probably think of the unwanted emails you get from unknown sources soliciting you for money and information.

Altoids have been freshening bad breath since the turn of the 19th century. But while they are touted as "Curiously Strong Mints," perhaps the real curiosity is not the allure of the mints themselves, but the popularity of turning the tin in whic

You're in a public place -- say a restaurant or a doctor's waiting room -- and it's taking longer to get your food or have your name called than you expected. Your toddler is starting to get restless.

The Japanese lettuce production company Spread believes the farmers of the future will be robots.

In a major breakthrough for artificial intelligence, a computing system developed by Google researchers in Great Britain has beaten a top human player at the game of Go, the ancient Eastern contest of strategy and intuition that has bedeviled AI expe

How low can you soar?

Darren Miller is ready to enjoy his second chance at life.

DARPA has announced a program aimed at developing a cutting edge neural implant capable of forming a communication bridge between a human brain and electronic devices.

It's exploring itself

Skype has just launched a new feature that's very impressive indeed - live translation.

Why has it taken so long for practical thermal evasion methods to be introduced to the civilian market?

Self-healing materials that can repair cracks and other damage automatically have the subject of research for decades.

A green propulsion system is being developed by Aerojet Rocketdyne in a public-private partnership with NASA to mature the development of an MPS-130 CubeSat modular system, which will use a propellant known as AF-M315E.

Germany-based companies, 3D-Micromac AG, a provider of laser micromachining systems, and EOS GmbH, an e-Manufacturing group, have teamed up to form a new organization dubbed 3D MicroPrint GmbH.

Smart augmented reality helmet allows wearers to overlay maps, schematics and thermal images to effectively see through walls, pipes and other solid objects

Would you exercise for an hour every day if the workout powered your home for twenty-four hours?

At this week's CES technology expo, LG will be one of many TV makers to show off an impressive lineup of super-duper-high-definition TVs. But there's one thing that separates LG from the competition.

It's been fodder for many a heated debate among men for centuries.

Not so long ago (well, 7 months ago) Tesla Energy announced the "Powerwall" energy storage solutions to quite a lot of fanfare.

Each day, humanity inches closer to the vision of the future presented by "The Jetsons." Okay, maybe not exactly that cartoon future, but something resembling it. Smartwatches, robotic assistance, and 3-D printed food are just some of the real wo

Ever since electricity was tamed in the 19th century, the idea of manipulating gravity by altering an electromagnetic field has been the subject of intriguing experiments and occasional bursts of irrational exuberance.