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Long before the Rural Electrification Administration started bringing power to rural folks who hadn't been reached by big corporate power companies, farmers and people living away from profitable to operate transmission lines were stuck without the

No matter how careful you are, there may come a time when you find yourself or someone close to you in a situation where they get a laceration that needs attention beyond the basic band-aid.

Top AI expert Nikolas Kairinos believes within 20 years, implants put into human's heads will allow us to not have to memorise a thing.

What if you could make money, or type something, just by thinking about it? It sounds like science fiction, but it might be close to reality.

Bugging out means you can't carry your whole medicine cabinet with you. You may not be able to reach a doctor who can write prescriptions for you, either. But you may already have essential oils with you that can help address infections. These are

European scientists have announced plans to start mining the moon as early as 2025, though what they'll be extracting is neither gold nor diamonds, but waste-free nuclear energy thought to be worth trillions of dollars.

Aubrey de Grey is getting more bullish about his timeframes for robust human rejuvenation and longevity escape velocity. He now thinks it is only 18 years away and not 25 years anymore.

While the advent of 3D printers is commonly thought of as a revolution for manufacturing, it could have huge benefits for medicine as well.

Thanks to a trailblazing new surgery being performed in European hospitals, Bethan Simpson's unborn daughter has been given a second chance at good health.

A new high-tech fiber that combines the elasticity of rubber with the strength of a metal has been developed by US scientists. (Video)

The robot rolling down the street just might be delivering a FedEx package to your home or office.

Another flying car company is preparing to join the race to the skies, as Australia's Macchina Volantis gears up to build a prototype of its road-drivable 5-seat electric aircraft.

Oneweb has launched six satellites that will be part of 600 global satellite network.

You could be forgiven for thinking that Arkup's ambitious concept for a floating home would never be realized, but it has indeed been built and is now for sale for a cool US$5.5 million.

24M, the battery start-up headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., announced first delivery of a commercially viable, high energy density lithium-ion cells – the SemiSolid lithium-ion battery design – to an undisclosed industrial partner.

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Marc G. Millis, Jeff Greason, Rhonda Stevenson of the Tau Zero Foundation provided a 69-page review to NASA of the Interstellar Flight Challenges and Prospects.

CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing system has made pluripotent stem cells that are functionally "invisible" to the immune system which will prevent rejection of stem cell transplants.

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'Youngest person' to ever build a nuclear reactor: Boy wonder, 12, made a working atomic fusion experiment in his parent's spare room using $10,000 worth of parts from eBay

Astronaut trainer Beth Moses tagged along for the ride

The Von Braun rotating space station will be the first commercial space construction project in history. It will be serviced by the SpaceX Starship and be designed to accommodate national space agency laboratories, billionaires who want to own proper

Following a series of delays and setbacks, SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft is finally set for proper lift-off, with NASA today announcing it is targeting March 2 for the spacecraft's maiden voyage into orbit.

How many fad diets, fancy workouts and health trends have you tried over the years?

Named Xin Xiaomeng, the perfectly coiffed broadcaster is the newest addition to Xinhua's two male AI presenters

Before Samsung's big event today, just about anyone who's been paying even a little attention knew that it was planning to announce its foldable smartphone.

Deep in the heart of the Adirondacks, the unexpected death of a small-town police sergeant has added fuel to a nationwide controversy over an herbal supplement

Though many alternatives are available, the Raspberry Pi computer boards are probably the most well known and widely used in the maker community.

Raising boats out of the water on hydrofoils makes them much more comfortable and efficient – and this French design uses electric propulsion and an automatic self-stabilizing system to give you clean, quiet and sexy water transport.

FORRES, SCOTLAND -- Orbex, a United Kingdom-based rocket startup, just unveiled part of its new Prime small-satellite launcher, which the company hopes will be lofting spacecraft into low-Earth orbit from the north of Scotland at a rate of one a mon

This latest scientific breakthrough from China could bring cheap, clean drinking water to people around the world. Earlier this month, scientists from Yangzhou University developed a water system that used sunlight and 2D materials to purify water

"It bypasses currency controls. Paper money is going away and crypto is a far better way to transfer value than pieces of paper."

Figure: Graphene-based wearable e-textiles move closer to commercial production. The new technique could allow graphene e-textiles to be manufactured at commercial production rates of 150 meters per minute, researchers said. "To be able to produce

When salt is removed from seawater in desalination plants, the byproduct is – not surprisingly – a lot of highly-concentrated salty brine. Ordinarily, this is just dumped back into the sea, which can harm the environment. Thanks to a new treatmen

The new material is made of two synthetic materials that combine with carbon nanotubes to regulate your temperature all the time.

Elon Musk believes there is a path for the SpaceX Super Heavy Starship (SHS) to be built for less than a Falcon 9.

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One of Elon Musk's speeches was animated by After Skool. Elon discussed how societal and technological progress is not inevitable.

SpaceX's Mars ships won't be ferrying just the super rich to and from the Red Planet, if everything goes according to Elon Musk's plan.

LinkedIn is launching its own live streaming video service. Called LinkedIn Live, the service will be aimed at delivering the kind of content that aligns with LinkedIn's userbase. Which means a focus on business, technology, and people who want to

Sirin Labs is shipping the Finney Blockchain Phone - a decked out android phone with a custom hardware wallet module. The phone even has a separate screen to confirm transactions and enter your pin - making it unhackable even if the android device it

As powerful as the human brain is, once it's damaged it can't really recover completely.

Elon Musk wrote a 16-page article that described a plan to reduce the cost to bring one person to Mars down to $100,000.

Tesla welcomes Maxwell into their house with $218M acquisition for battery technology and battery expertise.

Space startup Orbex has revealed the world's largest 3D printed rocket engine.

Patrick Tucker at Defense One has reported that James Smith, SOCOM's acquisition executive has stated that the Special Ops Exoskeleton is nowhere near ready for use in combat.

Columbia neuroengineers have created a system that translates thought into intelligible, recognizable speech.

IBM will invest $2 billion to develop artificial intelligence hardware and boost AI performance by 1000 times over the next ten years.

There's no doubt that the Raspberry Pi has played a huge part in the growth of the maker community.