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Recently I has approached by a self-described "insider" who had at one time worked for DARPA. He insisted that the new 5G technology being rolled out across the country was both lethal and contained mind control elements that should alarm all peo

The condom of the future: Extra-slippery 'hydrogel' contraceptive that feels like you're wearing nothing at all wins $1million in government backing

If global warming causes catastrophic flooding that inundates most of the world's coastal urban areas by the end of the century, how will we cope?

When a clot blocks a blood vessel in the heart, a heart attack is the unfortunate result. Frequently, surgery is required in order to remove that clot. Thanks to an experimental new drug-delivery system, however, that approach may become increasingly

At the recent Farnborough Air Show 2018, aerospace engineers from Britain's University of Central Lancashire presented what they state is the world's first graphene-skinned aircraft. Known as Juno, the 3.5 meter-wide (11.5-ft) unmanned plane could be

huge molecular possibilities...AI is revolutionizing medicine including radiology, pathology, and other medical specialties. Deep learning (DL) technologies are beginning to find applications in drug discovery including areas of molecular docking, tr

Mars Workshop Photos

This past February news.Bitcoin.com reported on the firm Coingeek announcing funding the Electron Cash programming team. Since then, the bitcoin cash (BCH) centric wallet Electron Cash has seen a bunch of development with Coinshuffle integration, and

Floating almost motionless at an altitude of 70,000 feet, Airbus SE's Zephyr spy drone has extended the record for the longest flight within the Earth's atmosphere to 25 days, two-thirds more than the previous best.

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made a silicon chip that distributes optical signals precisely across a miniature brain-like grid, showcasing a potential new design for neural networks.

Personal home robots that can socialise with people are starting to roll out of the laboratory and into our living rooms and kitchens. But are humans ready to invite them into their lives?

From her home in a wooded hollow in Virginia hill country, Brianna Smith and her two-year-old son Jack entered the aviation record books on Tuesday.

Just over a decade ago, Samsung announced the imminent arrival of the first laptops to come with 32 GB NAND flash storage.

When NASA announced the astronaut crews for the first SpaceX and Boeing crewed launches in 2019, they showed them with the new SpaceX and Boeing spacesuits.

Kyoto University Hospital will start clinical trials for Parkinson's disease that transplants dopaminergic progenitors generated from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells.

Injecting Placental stem cells into old mice at the end of their lives can boost longevity by 50%. It extends the life of 2-year-old mice to three years.

Tokyo Technology has fixed one of the major disadvantages of all-solid-state batteries by developing batteries with a low resistance at their electrode/solid electrolyte interface.

In 2017, Chinese Academy of Engineering completed a detailed design for an 84 mile long Tunnel to Taiwan. The Academy is the largest central governmental advisory body on infrastructural construction.

Ocean Farm 1 is the world's first deep-sea aquaculture farm. It is designed by leading salmon farmer SalMar ASA (of Norway). They paid China Shipbuilding Industry $300 million for six facilities.

Up until now small variations in the current passing through a memristor device was not precise enough for numerical calculations.

Fracture-resistant "rebar graphene" is more than twice as tough as pristine graphene.

NASA announced winners of the 3D printed Mars habitat design challenge.

DARPA has revealed the research teams selected to drive two efforts to go beyond Moore's law.

Bioengineered lungs have been grown in a Texas lab and transplanted into adult pigs with no medical complication.

It's going to cost the mobile-phone companies, chipmakers, device manufacturers and software developers about $200 billion a year in research and capital spending to get 5G fully deployed.

Russians have built the vast majority of planes that leverage Wing in Ground Effect. Flying low above the water or land can provide extra lift to enable planes with far more cargo capacity.

Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the company Diamond Materials have developed 6 inch wide diamond disks for window units to heat the plasma in fusion reactors.

Here is a rundown of the various nuclear fusion projects.

After years of vehicle development and building anticipation, NASA has now put the crew in commercial crew spacecraft.

Waymo has been testing self-driving cars without any safety drivers in Phoenix for nearly a year.

NASA and the US Army have tested 100 megabit per second laser communication with a cubesat.

Being able to identify trees can not only be a source of pleasure, as the first Boy Scouts Handbook opined, but a matter of survival.

When it comes to organ transplants, the waiting list and donor list don't quite line up, and even if a patient is lucky enough to receive the surgery, there's a chance their body may reject the foreign organ.

As useful and ubiquitous as they are, lithium-ion batteries are nearing their limits, and it's unlikely we'll be able to squeeze much more juice out of them.

A new study from researchers at the Mayo Clinic may shed some light on why certain people can lose more weight than others despite adhering to the same regime of exercise and caloric restriction.

3D printing has come a long way and this can be seen in a hyper-detailed one-tenth studio scale model of the Discovery spaceship from the 2001 movie.

Haug has recently introduced a new maximum velocity for subatomic particles (anything with rest mass) that is just below the speed of light. This is combined with the relativistic rocket equation in order to assess how much fuel would be needed to ac

It's a novel idea, using light diffracted through numerous plates instead of electrons.

Just a couple of months ago, Geneinno successfully Kickstarted its Titan underwater drone, which users can remotely-control from above the surface.

Here is a rundown of the various nuclear fusion projects. Overall there many interesting projects with decent funding.

Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the company Diamond Materials have developed 6 inch wide diamond disks for window units to heat the plasma in fusion reactors.

Russians have built the vast majority of planes that leverage Wing in Ground Effect. Flying low above the water or land can provide extra lift to enable planes with far more cargo capacity.

When Uber and Lyft first hit the market, the concept of getting a ride was completely revolutionized. And while the ridesharing industry has offered us safe and reliable alternatives to the outdated cab industry, innovation is constant.

If you want a more productive vegetable garden, gorgeous perennial and annual flowers, bigger and brighter containers, overflowing hanging baskets, and healthier shrubs and trees – then it's time to use worm castings!

When it comes to new materials, thin is most definitely in. Brazilian researchers have created a new two-dimensional material called hematene, which is made up of sheets of iron ore just three atoms thick. And as is often the case with 2D materials,

Your daily commute could become faster, quieter and airborne if plans for a new flying car inspired by bird's wings come to fruition.

Robots may soon be more sensitive than humans--at least when it comes to their skin. Researchers from Glasgow University have developed a type of artificial skin that is more sensitive than our own. Just add this to all the ways robots are taking ov

Chainmail was a form of armor popular during Medieval times that consists of hundreds of small metal rings linked together to form armor. While better protection has long made it obsolete, NASA has reimagined its potential as a way to protect astrona

Improving flow in lymph nodes in the neck improves memory and learning and could reduce memory loss from aging

Innovation in health care is woefully lacking and government red tape is largely to blame, but seasteading just might be a way to circumvent bureaucracy without sacrificing quality.