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Elon Musk indicates that electric motors and batteries with over 400 Wh/kg will be able be a cross over point for electric planes against jet fuel planes.

Russia plans to tow nuclear power station to the Arctic despite environmental campaigners branding it a 'floating Chernobyl'

Thick electrodes and solvent-free electrode manufacturing process are likely the next big step in battery tech.

Perhaps Tesla won't have to rely on Panasonic in the future?

A person does not hear sound only through the ears; he hears sound through every pore of his body. It permeates the entire being, and according to its particular influence either slows or quickens the rhythm of the blood circulation; it either wakens

The Soviet Superplane That Rattled America

D-Wave Systems announced the availability of D-Wave Hybrid™, a simple open-source hybrid workflow platform for building and running quantum-classical hybrid applications. D-Wave Hybrid is part of the Ocean software development kit within D-Wave's

But hydrogen offers up to 10 times the energy density, as well as gasoline-quick refueling, if you can deal with the inefficiencies of producing, transporting and storing it. And those difficulties can be better managed in a centralized aviation mod

As public health organizations issue dire warnings about the rising threat of antibiotic-resistant superbugs, a surprising hero may rush in just in time to save the day. A new study has found that cannabidiol (commonly known as CBD) is remarkably eff

Elon Musk will likely have a Super Heavy Starship presentation in July, 2019. It will be after the first successful untethered hop tests for the Starhopper.

Part of the first pre-defined route between a logistics center and a port terminal is a public road.

-in the middle of rush hour traffic as other drivers desperately attempt to wake him by honking their horns

-where Canadian family-of-three grow their own food, collect rainwater and live completely mortgage free

Real Engineering has a video that describes the value of SpaceX Starlink satellites.

NASA NIAC has funded the development of a next-generation SmartSuit spacesuit which will use soft-robotics technology so astronauts can be more mobile and better interact with their surroundings.

Amid fast escalating tensions in the Persian Gulf surrounding Thursday morning's mysterious "attacks" on two tankers which US officials are already blaming on Iran, Saudi Arabia has released CCTV footage of this week's previously reported Yemeni Hout

Scientists propose building a space station INSIDE an asteroid and using its gravity to mine valuable space rocks

Engineer Reuben Brewer and SRI International, a nonprofit scientific research institute based in California, developed a police robot for traffic stops. This new robot is expected to act as a buffer between the officer and motorist during an encounte

The mention of drones immediately conjures images quadcopters hovering in the sky above us. But what if there was a similar device that could allow us to explore underwater, rather than the skies?

A couple of months ago, we reported that Walmart was beginning to use robots to carry out mundane tasks like mopping its floors and tracking inventory.

How electricity works in buildings, including power, current, voltage, direct and alternating current, transformers, and the compelling stories of Tesla and Edison

Antennas made of carbon nanotube films are just as efficient as copper for wireless applications, according to researchers at Rice University's Brown School of Engineering. They're also tougher, more flexible and can essentially be painted onto d

The tiny luxury cabin with sliding glass walls that lets stressed-out city dwellers get closer to nature (and they can be assembled anywhere)

What if a rusty nail poked your foot? You've probably heard by now that getting injured by any rusty object can lead to tetanus. Tetanus is caused by bacteria known as Clostridium tetani, which is commonly found in soil, dust, and animal feces "

Dielectric laser accelerators (DLAs) provide a compact and cost-effective solution to this problem by driving accelerator nanostructures with visible or near-infrared (NIR) pulsed lasers, resulting in a 10,000 times reduction of scale.

Brain prostheses for the computer in your skull.

DARPA WANTS "THOUGHT CONTROLLED WEAPONS" BY FINDING WAYS TO "READ SOLDIERS' MINDS"

Everything vibrates. Everything.

Many people talk about the technical problem of too much radiation for missions to Mars or long term operations in space beyond the protection of Earth's magnetic field.

There's plenty happening in the world of environmentally friendly aviation, with a string of clean-burning aircraft notching up milestones in recent years, including the first flight of an electric light sport aircraft in Australia, the first electri

There's plenty happening in the world of environmentally friendly aviation, with a string of clean-burning aircraft notching up milestones in recent years, including the first flight of an electric light sport aircraft in Australia, the first electri

For years now, scientists have marvelled at the insulating qualities of polar bear fur, suggesting that it could inspire manmade heat-retaining materials. Well, Chinese researchers have now developed just such a substance, which reportedly outperform

A new photonic chip could run optical neural networks 10 million times more efficiently than conventional chips.

Craig Gidney at Google in Santa Barbara and Martin Ekerå at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden have found orders of magnitude gains for quantum computers code-breaking performance.

the Masses for Free...In a bid to make scientific articles more accessible to the masses, researchers are rallying for a new universal platform that will make research articles available for free.

Purism, the social purpose corporation that makes devices which respect your privacy, wants to provide us with a true alternative to the data-sucking walled gardens of Android and iOS. You may have heard of its upcoming Librem 5, a crowdfunded device

Blockchain venture production studio ConsenSys has bought space asteroid mining company. Planetary Resources. The acquisition was by an asset-purchase transaction.

How do you stop bullets using the lightest material possible? This question has inspired a string of fascinating breakthroughs from material scientists in pursuit of advanced lightweight armor that keeps foot soldiers agile and vehicles light.

Space flight requires quite a lot of single-use machinery, and when you're talking about multi-million dollar rockets that are used once, that gets pretty expensive and wasteful.

The popularity of CBD (cannabidiol) is soaring, and for good reason: it is truly a fascinating substance with incredible therapeutic value.

First pot, now 'shrooms. Oakland City Council in California on Tuesday voted unanimously to decriminalize hallucinogenic fungi, otherwise known as "magic mushrooms."

Tesla cars have been able to last for one million miles but starting in 2020 the battery packs will be able to last for a million miles as well.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has quietly revealed some troubling information about a class of toxic chemicals that the agency found in significant levels in our food supply.

There's a lot riding on the development of Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser space plane, with agreements in place to deliver cargo to the International Space Station for NASA, while other parties have expressed an interest in its services, too.

A four-year competition to help unravel the mysteries of the deep sea has drawn to a close, with the international team behind a new kind of unmanned surface vessel taking top honors.

Dutch airline KLM are funding a pioneering aeronautical project which could see the shape and layout of commercial aeroplanes changed forever.

Bjarke Ingels believes that architecture is the art and science of making sure our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.

Australian comedy group 'Axis Of Awesome' perform a sketch from the 2009 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Footage courtesy of Network Ten Australia.

Moltex was founded in 2014 by Dr. Ian Scott, and was privately funded until 2018. Moltex's mission is to enable low-cost clean energy as a practical economic solution.

The target starting price is even lower.