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All summer, the small boat drifted steadily eastward across the churning North Atlantic until it neared the Irish coast, where it made history by becoming the first unmanned sailboat to cross the Atlantic.

Tesla's battery cost advantage is expected to last for (at least) several years.

A Singaporean company has resurrected a post-WW2 German design to commercialize a beautiful reverse-delta ground effect vehicle as a high-speed, high-efficiency ferry for six to eight passengers. The Airfish 8 hovers serenely between two and 23 ft (0

Scientists have developed a way to transform sunlight into fuel that could lead to an 'unlimited source of renewable energy'.

Craig Davidson gave a talk in 2017 about Improving the SpaceX Mars Colonization Plans. Make a moon and Mars capable bulldozer. Replace steel with titanium-aluminum alloy. Use electric battery technology and solar panels.

These days, as technology gets increasingly innovative, it also gets smaller in size. This AAXA Technologies P2-A Smart Pico Projector is a miniature marvel, letting you project high-resolution 1080P videos from a two-inch cube. You can currently sav

Carbon nanotube bundles are becoming a feasible and economically convenient solution for the realization in our time of super bridges, such as those required across the Straits of Bab al Mandab, Messina or Gibraltar (main spans ?2.7, 3.3 or 3.5 km,

In permaculture, it is often thought that 'planting your water' is the first step to success.

There are lots of ways to produce food, herbs, and medicines, whether we have small properties with just a patio or deck, or large acreage. Our growing options increase all over again with some simple things like freebie pickup shipping pallets, bott

They have proven an innovative pre-cooling system which does not require the development of new materials to handle the heat of hypersonic flight speeds.

I did a video way back called Friction Fire 3 ways. That's before I learned the Bamboo Fire Saw. So for a long time now, I've been wanting to make this all inclusive video...

UCLA created a double layer solar cell by spraying a thin layer of perovskite onto a commercially available solar cell. The solar cell that forms the bottom layer of the device is made of a compound of copper, indium, gallium and selenide, or CIGS.

The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology has just published a four-paper Series on Ageing and endocrinology, highlighting endocrine-related diseases and comorbidities as some of the most common age-related conditions and major impediments to maintaining g

AUTONOMOUS airships are set to revolutionise policing, a cutting-edge company has claimed.

In July, 2018, Moltex was selected by New Brunswick Energy Solutions Corporation and New Brunswick Power to progress development of its SSR-W (Stable Salt Reactor – Wasteburner) technology in New Brunswick, with the aim of deploying its first SSR-W

--with 10-15% more capacity in wearable gadgets in 2019 and EV cars in 2023

SpaceX revealed the SpaceX crew dragon which four NASA astronauts will ride into orbit in 2019. Two test flights must go well and then the SpaceX crew dragon will be certified for manned flights for NASA.

he Chinese kindergarten children giggled as they worked to solve puzzles assigned by their new teaching assistant: a roundish, short educator with a screen for a face.

A judge may have extended a ban preventing Defense Distributed from publishing plans for 3D-printed guns, but that isn't stopping the company from finding loopholes to continue offering the weapons.

Experts take first steps to create ROBOT strawberry pickers who could end the need for humans toiling in fields

Source: University of Colorado at Boulder Summary: A new material can transform into complex, pre-programmed shapes via light and temperature stimuli.

In a series of mind-bending demos, inventor Mary Lou Jepsen shows how we can use red light to see and potentially stimulate what's inside our bodies and brains. Taking us to the edge of optical physics, Jepsen unveils new technologies that utilize li

The day you cannot go to McDonalds and consume their salads for fear of contracting a food borne infection is the day you should realize that there is something seriously wrong with what passes for the commercial food supply in the United States.

As long as you have power available, a freezer is one of the best ways to preserve food. Just about anything can be frozen – meat, vegetables, dairy products, bread and most other staples.

Sony's new-and-improved Aibo robot dog is finally coming to the US.

VP Pence announced the plan to put a manned crew on a Lunar Gateway Platform by 2024.

Several companies are starting to develop molten salt reactors. TerraPower is backed by Bill Gates and is developing molten salt reactors.

University of Waterloo Chemists are the first to achieve four-electron conversion, which doubles the electron storage of lithium-oxygen, also known as lithium-air, batteries.

Electrons that behave like light are Dirac electrons. Dirac electrons have been in monolayer graphene and now they are seen in twelve-sided graphene quasicrystal.

In 2019, China should complete floating mobile nuclear reactors to power drilling platforms in the ocean to expedite exploitation of oil, natural gas and combustible ice. A Pentagon report believes China will use floating nuclear reactors to power is

The Food and Drug Administration approved the first US clinical trials using psilocybin from magic mushrooms to treat depression today.

This is the secret rope makers DON'T want you to know about. Haha JK. But it's a totally awesome project, and you should try it.

Mike Baxter (KA0XTT) tells what he is giving thanks for on Thanksgiving Night in 2013.

Russian arms maker Kalashnikov on Thursday presented its new electric car inspired by a rare 1970s model, saying the new technology will rival Elon Musk's Tesla.

The maximum distance for asteroid mining 3 million miles (0.03 AU) with current technology. The corresponding delta-V is 437 meters per second. The near earth asteroids that are in range should contain more than one million liters of water.

Richard Browning spoke at SU Global Summit 2018 and demoed the Gravity Jetpack twice this week in the SF bay area.

Nantero is developing next-generation memory using carbon nanotubes. NRAM's has DRAM-like speed, nonvolatility and low cost.

For blood transfusions to be safe, the donor and patient blood types must match.

Faster than what is the question, though.

As we age, an enzyme in our skin known as elastase breaks down the elasticity-maintaining protein elastin, causing wrinkles to form. Now, however, scientists have developed a natural product that may keep this from happening – and it utilizes maple

A new travel adapter which includes built-in grounding and a reset button has charged past its Kickstarter goal. The Passport Pro also includes fast charging using USB-C Power delivery.

$1,199 for Nvidia's fastest GeForce card

Stratolaunch, with a wingspan longer than a football field, could take to the air for the first time within weeks

China's largest lithium battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd (CATL) plans to begin producing in 2019 next-generation nickel-rich batteries, which are cheaper to make and have longer life-spans.

Robert Zubrin believes that by 2023, there will be at least six other private space launch companies that will join SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic and Stratolaunch in commercial space launch.

The University of Michigan has a made a breakthrough towards a ceramic, solid-state electrolyte which could enable lithium-ion batteries with twice the energy performance.

There is a $15 million grant from the National Science Foundation to build a 100 qubit trapped ion quantum computer.

UC Berkeley chemists have proved that three carbon structures recently created by scientists in South Korea and Japan are in fact the long-sought schwarzites, which researchers predict will have unique electrical and storage properties like those now

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In future, the Three Blind Mice might be able to avoid running into the farmer's wife, if new research out of the National Eye Institute (NEI) pans out. In the study, scientists managed to restore vision in mice born with congenital blindness, using