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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.

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Tesla already started accepting reservations on the Model 3 that will be produced at the Gigafactory 3

The choice of new electric cars is expanding, but for EV West the way of life is to convert existing cars to electric.

Elon Musk says adding two to four Raptor Engines to the Starship will let it go sub-orbital for 6000 miles at mach 20. This would mean trips like San Francisco to Shanghai or New York to Berlin. Many world cities are within 6000 miles of each other.

More and more people are utilizing their smartphones for underwater photography, but there's a problem with using a watertight housing made just for your device – it's useless when you change phones. The Xpoovv, however, works with a wide range of

Two fascinating new studies are shedding light on the association between the gut, the brain, and autism.

Cell division is one of the most fundamental biological functions, vital to life – but there's still so much about it that we don't understand. In an attempt to find out more, researchers at the University of Chicago have now managed to recreate ce

MIT has developed an inexpensive sensor glove designed to enable artificial intelligence to figure out how humans identify objects by touch.

A new electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) air taxi company came out of stealth mode today, using a hydrogen fuel cell powertrain that neatly sidesteps the energy density issue that's holding back battery-powered aircraft.

First there was Tether; a controversial dollar-backed cryptocurrency by crypto exchange firm, Bitfinex.

Thomas Jam Pedersen, engineer and co-founder of Copenhagen Atomics, was skeptical at first upon discovering and reading about thorium energy, which is present everywhere in the world and could technically provide an inexpensive energy supply for ever

Everything you ever wanted to know about Tesla and EV batteries right here.

We've dreamed about exploring the cosmos for generations, and our technology has finally reached a point where that dream might be within our grasp.

Aspiring Martian Colonist and Astrophysics PhD candidate Ryan MacDonald covers the progress in SpaceX's plans to send people to Mars. Updates include: construction and testing of Starhopper, launch of the Starlink Constellation, and the Crew Dragon D

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Elon Musk Views on Education

This is Ferrari's fastest car ever. It also happens to be a plug-in hybrid with nearly 1,000 horsepower on tap. It's called the SF90 Stradale, and inside and out, it's unlike anything else.

A research team from U of T Engineering has developed a new electrochemical path to transform carbon dioxide (CO2) into valuable products such as jet fuel or plastics. The technology could significantly improve the economics of capturing and recyclin

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Be The Keys To Long-Term Survival ...With this Spring's flooding in the Midwest decimating many crops, with millions of calves lost during the flooding, along with the recent barrage of tornadoes leaving a path of destruction from Kansas to Pennsylva

By combining moondust and lasers, Laser Zentrum Hannover (LZH) and the Institute of Space Systems (IRAS) of the Technical University of Braunschweig are experimenting with ways to use 3D printing to build lunar colonies. Slated to fly in 2021, the ne

it Could Save Millions...In a world first, researchers from King's College London believe they may have found a new therapy that can induce heart cells to regenerate after a heart attack.

Gilmour Space Technologies 3D-printed a rocket. Everything hinges on the success of its first launch. long Australia's northeastern edge, the Pacific Ocean laps at sparkling yellow sands. This pristine 35 miles of shoreline is known as the Gold Coa

A startup in China will be the first company in the world to begin mass-producing self-driving delivery vehicles for some of the country's biggest commerce giants.

Several years ago, California-based Willow Garage introduced a two-armed wheeled robot known as the PR2. It was designed for use in robotics research, but unfortunately the company has since gone out of business. Quebec-based Kinova Robotics has step

Although oxygen is common throughout the cosmos, most of it isn't in the form that we as humans need to breathe – molecular oxygen, or O2. Now, researchers at Caltech claim to have created a reactor that can turn carbon dioxide into molecular oxyge

No matter how good a material is at conducting electricity, there's usually some resistance – unless you use superconductive materials.

Autism is caused by mutations in 'supporting' DNA - not specific genes: Genetic screening of 1,800 families reveals why the disorder has eluded scientists for years

Autonomous machine expected to pick more than 25,000 raspberries a day, outpacing human workers

It's been one day since SpaceX launched its first 60 Starlink internet satellites into orbit, and a skywatching sleuth has already spotted them soaring across the night sky. Netherlands-based satellite tracker Marco Langbroek stunned space fans tonig

Uber's newest rideshare option will take you down under ... to the Great Barrier Reef! Here's a look at "scUber." The company says its the world's very first rideshare submarine.

Try convincing your children they're not in the middle of some dystopian nightmare, when a headless robot unpacks itself from the back of a driverless car to deliver a pizza on a Friday night.

An overview of a few common types of rocket engine cycles then compare the Raptor to a few other common rocket engines, like SpaceX's current work horse, the Merlin, The Space Shuttle's RS-25, the RD-180, Blue Origin's BE-4 and the F-1 engine.

A new floating bullet train capable of hitting speeds of 600 kilometers per hour (about 372 miles/hour) is one step closer to reality in China.

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first gene therapy for a type of spinal muscular atrophy, a lifesaving treatment for infants that will also be the most expensive drug in the world.

SpaceX and its competitors plan to envelop the planet with thousands of small objects in the next few years.

A recent study that tested both men and dogs added to concerns that chemicals in the environment are damaging the quality and quantity of sperm

For thousand of years humans have been using fermentation as a way of preserving foods and engendering good gut health.