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A study published earlier in 2018 should have made headlines everywhere, as it discovered historically high amounts of aluminum in autistic brains. The study was conducted by some of the worlds leading scientists in the field.

When a virtual object needs to be simulated, a voltage difference is applied to the metal strips, which causes them to stick together. That in turn creates a braking force.

There are thousands of companies on the Internet. Bezos says there will need to be thousands of companies in space.

Governments and corporations have deployed censorship to limit speech and deprive people of vital communication channels. The ruling elite are trying to shush activists and freethinkers, but they are losing control and lashing out in frustration.

Such a mission is actually possible, right now, with current technology. The plan is to use airships which can stay aloft in the upper atmosphere for extended periods of time...As surprising as it may seem, the upper atmosphere of Venus is the most E

We're a step closer to having high-altitude, long-endurance, autonomous aircraft soaring through the skies. UAVOS has now announced that a prototype of the company's High Altitude Pseudo Satellite (HAPS) ApusDuo aircraft has completed the first stage

The makers of a DIY phone kit think building your own not-so-smart phone could foster a healthier relationship to screens.

INRS professor and ultrafast imaging specialist Jinyang Liang and his colleagues, led by Caltech's Lihong Wang, have developed what they call T-CUP: the world's fastest camera, capable of capturing ten trillion (10 13) frames per second.

Urmila Mahadev spent eight years in graduate school solving one of the most basic questions in quantum computation: How do you know whether a quantum computer has done anything quantum at all?

High energy density sodium ion batteries using Cobalt oxide plating are providing better performance than lithium ion batteries.

After a couple decades creating theater sets in Amsterdam, Oep Schilling and his company of makers Fiction Factory, put their CNC expertise and resources into building a prefab tiny house, using cardboard as the main structural element.

Slow-motion video has always been fun to watch, with the best rigs usually shooting on the scale of thousands of frames per second.

The Air Force's recent funding should see close to $1 billion go towards Blue Origin and its BE4 engine. The BE4 engine is used in Blue Origin rocket and the ULA Vulcan rocket.

This technology may someday power spacecraft, satellites, high-flying drones, and pacemakers.

SpaceX has had 62 successful launches and landed 28 times and reused boosters 15 times.

found to be effective against resistant MRSA...To many, honey is more than just a natural sweetener: it's a source of valuable medicine. A revered folk cure, honey has been used for a variety of medicinal purposes throughout the centuries, and now,

The decentralization of information is paramount to the continued efficacy of democracy and the continued freedom of the common man, and mesh networking is our society's greatest hope for achieving such a goal.

While the Western countries spend time teaching children nonsense like "gender identity" studies, Russian children are being taught how to create usable satellites.

The Boring Company has made some pretty impressive strides in its relatively short existence.

TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor) taped out its first chip in a process making limited use of extreme ultraviolet lithography and will start risk production in April on a 5-nm node with full EUV.

Researchers have developed a new way to build augmented reality smart glasses that projects images directly into the eye rather than using lenses as a display. It's hoped the approach could shrink down smart glasses and AR headsets, potentially makin

In a landmark study, researchers from Northwestern University and the Washington University School of Medicine describe a novel biodegradable implant designed to electrically stimulate damaged nerves, speeding up the healing process, before naturally

A startup's concept drawing of a hulking device to archive data in DNA molecules shows the idea has a way to go.

A spacecraft designed to eventually replace many spacewalking astronaut activities passed two key pressure tests in September, representatives from the company building the spacecraft told Space.com in an exclusive interview.

"We should be in space within weeks, not months. And then we will be in space with myself in months and not years," the Virgin founder and CEO told CNBC's Nancy's Hungerford in Singapore Tuesday. The serial entrepreneur, who owns the commerc

The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday revoked the use of seven food additives after environmentalists and food safety experts presented data showing six of the synthetic flavoring substances and flavor enhancers caused cancer in laboratory an

The reality distortion field is real, and it's getting better every day.

Space-elevator tech, a longtime sci-fi staple, is about to get a test here in the real world.

The Technocrat leaders of the 5G revolution go way beyond just cell-phone carriers and include any all proponents of Smart Cities, Internet of Things, autonomous vehicles, ubiquitous surveillance and law enforcement. In the rush to 'light up IoT"

Elon Musk is making good on his promise to fix Flint's water and he is starting by installing filters on every single school.

In the darkened Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, hundreds of people couldn't wait to see legendary rocker Roy Orbison. A live orchestra pumped up the crowd with a medley of his hits. Old photos of him flashed across a giant screen.

Have you ever wondered why you should start your own garden when food is readily available at grocery stores?

The digitization and automation of processes and delivery vehicles will reduce logistics costs for standardized transport by 47% by 2030, according to a new report from PwC's Strategy and consultancy.

HES Energy Systems revealed its plans for Element One, the world's first regional hydrogen-electric passenger aircraft. They have been developing hydrogen propulsion systems for drones for the last 12 years.

HES Energy Systems revealed its plans for Element One, the world's first regional hydrogen-electric passenger aircraft.

Sporting a trendy brown bob, a humanoid robot named Erica chats to a man in front of stunned audience members in Madrid.

NASA has announced the first crewed flight by a SpaceX rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) is expected to take place in June 2019.

All around us are the almost unimaginable benefits of markets, cooperation, and technology, yet somehow we're naïve if we don't want to funnel human activity through government cattle chutes.

Nearly everyone is giving themselves cancer ever day by eating cancer-causing foods and using cancer-causing personal care products on their skin.

A Toronto-based sex doll brothel hoping to slip into Houston had cold water poured over its plans, after the City Council on Wednesday updated a rule on sexually oriented businesses prohibiting the use of the silicone seductresses for masturbatory pu

Lockheed Martin revealed a giant crewed lunar lander concept and showed how the reusable lander aligns with NASA's lunar Gateway and future Mars missions.

Mayo Clinic anti-aging researcher James Kirkland published about a drug combination that can slow and reverse senescent cells in mice.

When we last heard about courier company DHL's Parcelcopter delivery drone, it had been delivering medication to a remote island village and a mountaintop community, both in Germany. Now, the most recent version of the aircraft has just completed a p

What's the most common event most of us have to deal with, at least on a short-term basis? Power outages! Not only do they happen alone, but an extended blackout often follows many other major disasters.

(Opt Out of Cancer, part 2) - To pull this off, cancer doctors deceive patients about the causes of cancer, pretending that cancer is a spontaneous disease without cause. Yes, that's blatant quackery and junk science, but that's what oncologists

'A land full of wonder, mystery and danger! I landed on asteroid Ryugu!'

Further to opening our eyes to new perspectives on our environment, we are beginning to see how drones can also play very active roles in its construction.

Grier, a self-described inventor who has worked at a local bed and breakfast, built the new "ribbon gun" with a hobbyist's tools. It looks like a space-age toy drawn by a fifth-grader.

Jobs of America's 10 million construction workers are in serious jeopardy to be replaced by robots. What's the point? Technocrats invent because they can, not because it is wise to do so. Will humanity de humanized if it is cared for exclusively

Hyperloop passenger pod that could one day hit 760mph revealed ahead of first trials in Spain next year