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Technocrats in China constantly dream up new ways to gather data from the social environment. Robotic doves equipped with cameras are virtually undetectable from real birds, and can be deployed in flocks.

Perched loftily on Germany's Baltic coast, the small-to-middling town of Greifswald continues to be at the forefront of research into nuclear fusion. This is in no small part down to the presence of the Wendelstein 7-X - a fusion reactor so complic

Kroger is partnering with autonomous car company Nuro to introduce driverless cars to its grocery delivery. Kroger has made a number of investments toward expanding its digital and online delivery business. "Last mile delivery" is one o

prepares for its "shake and bake"...(Natural News) The prototype of the ExoMars Rover is being prepared for vibration and temperature tests in France. The upcoming "shake and bake" test is a big step for the European Space Agency's mission

Japan's Hayabusa-2 spacecraft will collect a piece of the asteroid Ryugu and bring it back to Earth.

Boeing revealed its first passenger-carrying hypersonic concept plane at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics conference in Atlanta this week.

Within 4-5 years Made In Space believes their Archinaut space manufacturing robot and manufacturing mini factory will be making large structures like trusses and reflectors in space.

SolarStratos is the new all-electric solar-powered aircraft that by 2020 will try to reach the stratosphere in the world's first piloted stratospheric solar flight.

The University of Michigan was salty that IBM made a smaller computer than it did, so it made an even smaller computer.

Elon Musk stated that SpaceX will use modern versions of Inconel superalloys for Raptor rocket engines. They will use the SX 300 and soon SX 500 superalloys.

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There is simply no way of getting around it: American health care is exorbitantly expensive. But while many people look to government to solve our nation's health care woes, the real solutions lie elsewhere. In fact, the more the government interve

A team of researchers have developed a device that can make soldiers and vehicles disappear.

Researchers from Nvidia have revealed an impressive new system that uses a deep-learning neural network to effectively create smooth high-quality slow motion videos from footage shot at a regular, low frame rate.

From prostate surgery to gallbladder procedures, robots are already mainstays in the operating room. Now, they're coming for your eyes.

of land, says report...(Natural News) If the U.S. wants to completely rely on solar power, it will need to set aside a lot of land. But solar energy can fulfill the world's power needs, and an article on Inverse states that the average nation can

Sarcos Robotics' Guardian GT has earned comparisons from Wired to Sigourney Weaver's Power Loader - the machine she used to defeat the eponymous Alien from the 1979 film: It's a robot that allows people to lift and manipulate objects weighing up to 5

It's got rockets. It might even be able to fly.

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and LCW Supercritical Technologies have created five grams of yellowcake -- a powdered form of uranium used to produce fuel for nuclear power production -- using acrylic fibers to extract it from

There are actually a lot of different types of energy sources to tap into after a disaster strikes.

The creepy AI that can predict the future: Machine that anticipates your movements several minutes in advance could pave the way for next-level Big Brother surveillance

SpinLaunch Inc. has closed a $35 million Series A funding round with a powerhouse syndicate of investors. Investors include Airbus Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), and Kleiner Perkins.

Intel researchers are testing a tiny new "spin qubit" chip.

Bob Effendi, a native of Indonesia, helped ThorCon win its 2015 deals with Indonesian companies to work on thorium nuclear power.

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Of all the pieces of pop culture "spy gear" that have been dreamed up over the years, one of the most iconic is the 2-way wristwatch radio used by comic-strip detective Dick Tracy.

NASA's Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator, or LOFTID, is demonstrating technology for atmospheric entry.

Elon Musk's Boring Co. has won a bid to build a multibillion-dollar high-speed express train to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.

The Russian military is building a massive cloud which will serve as backup internet in the event of a war. The cloud will be ready in two years and will allow Russia to survive in wartime, even they are totally disconnected.

Tokyo Tech researchers have designed and fabricated a tiny, fast, reliable and accurate 28-GHz transceiver meant for stable high-speed 5GAbove –

Nippon Telephone and Tokyo Institute of Technology have jointly developed an ultra high-speed IC for wireless front-end that operates on a terahertz frequency band, and in the 300 GHz band they have succeeded in developing the world's fastest 100 g

Psychedelics could be 'next generation' of safer treatments for mental health

The world's first trillionaire won't come from cryptocurrency or some clever new app – he or she will become rich from asteroid mining.

Arizona State University (ASU) scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have successfully programmed nanorobots to shrink tumors by cutting off

The number of individual stalls in the Tesla Supercharging network now exceeds 10,000… several months behind the schedule, but still it's the biggest such network by far in the world.

Robots and drones for delivery were all over the annual Global Smart Logistics Summit. Several automated guided vehicles (AGVs), reminiscent of Roomba's robot vacuum cleaners, were moving metal racks stacked with piles of boxes. There were autonomo

On Saturday June 9, the founder of the bitcoin cash-centric wallet Electron Cash, Jonald Fyookball, revealed that he had created an on-chain betting protocol called Chainbet. The 255 lines of code form a proposal that allows a simple coin flip type o

The US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has unveiled a computer capable of handling 200,000 trillion calculations per second (200 petaflops).

When the 300-foot Maersk Launcher docked in San Diego early Monday morning, it unloaded a cargo of hardened black blobs scooped from the bottom of the sea.

Land Rover builds cars with two principles in mind: off-road capability and in-car comfiness.

It's an unexpected partnership on battery development that we didn't see coming. But we welcome it for sure.

NuScale Power small modular reactor (SMR) will be able generate 20 percent more power than originally planned. Advanced testing and modeling tools helped NuScale identify optimization and increased power generation.

China announced that all United Nation member counties are welcome to cooperate with China to jointly utilize its future China Space Station (CSS).

"It's as easy to use as playing Minecraft," Kitty Hawk CEO Sebastian Thrun said as we watched my colleague Rachel Crane pull on a motorcycle helmet.

SpaceX is going all-in on building in-house its own satellite constellation.

Horne Technologies is developing an inertial electrostatic nuclear fusion system. They claim to have the world's first superconducting, high-beta plasma research device in operation.

The $100 million Breakthrough Starshot program has issued a request for proposals.

Assembly has been completed on the first test engine that will power DARPA's Boeing-built, next generation spaceplane. Built by Aerojet Rocketdyne , the first updated AR-22 rocket engine for the Phantom Express project will be used in ground tests to

The US Army isn't just looking to giving soldiers a hand, but a whole extra arm. At the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland, the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is testing a prototype passive support system called Third Arm, which evenly distribut

Airloys™ are a new class of mechanically robust aerogels with the strength to stand up to real-world applications. In this video, classic silica aerogel is compared with a new material called Airloy X100 which has the low density and superinsulatin