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The moon will get its first mobile phone network next year, enabling high-definition streaming from the lunar landscape back to earth, part of a project to back the first privately funded moon mission.

With DNA from a museum specimen, scientists reconstruct the genome of a bird extinct for 700 years

Revolutionary Treatment? Scientists Successfully Reverse Alzheimer's Disease In Mice

DARPA will kick off a space launch competition in two months. Currently the only details are they want fast launches.

A team of Ohio State researchers has received a $6.34 million award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop novel magnetic materials by unlocking the power of skyrmions, nanoscale spin textures that offer promise for sto

The performance and reliability of quantum sensors and devices is dependent on the length of time the underlying quantum states can remain coherent.

Baidu has demonstrated that a single deep learning voice system could learn to reproduce thousands of speaker identities, with less than half an hour of training data for each speaker. This capability was enabled by learning shared and discriminative

An 11-year old named Andrew Courey from Massachusetts just published a book on bitcoin so the younger generation can grasp this emerging technology that's been sweeping the globe. The sixth-grader considers himself an expert on bitcoin, and his 57-

Instant cryptocurrency exchange specialist Shapeshift has quietly launched a new service. Bitfract, which is still in beta, allows users to swap from one cryptocurrency for multiple cryptos in an instant. For example, you can swap from bitcoin to a b

It has to be one of the slowest parking attempts ever made, but ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) has completed a daring maneuver that saw it surfing the outer layers of the Martian atmosphere for 11 months. The purpose of the exercise was to gra

Antimatter is notoriously tricky to store and study, thanks to the fact that it will vanish in a burst of energy if it so much as touches regular matter. The CERN lab is one of the only places in the world that can readily produce the stuff, but gett

SAFFiR, the US Navy's experimental firefighting robot, may be in for some competition. That's because researchers at Italy's IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia have successfully tested a new-and-improved version of the WALK-MAN humanoid robot, which

Eco Marine Power is preparing to put its rigid solar energy sails through their paces next year.

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This summer Port-Liner is expected to launch its first battery-electric barges that will run between Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Rotterdam ports in Europe.

Driverless cars, with no person in the vehicle, may come to California as soon as April if rules are approved Monday.

SpinLaunch is raising $30 million to use large centrifuges to power catapult to launch payloads into space.

Jeddah Tower (previously known as Kingdom Tower, is being built in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, at a cost of SR4.6 billion (US$1.23 billion).

Broad Group which has built factory mass produced skyscrapers has a new construction innovation – Core Tubular Steel Slabs (CTS).

A Northwestern research team has developed a novel device called a "memtransistor," which operates much like a neuron by performing both memory and information processing.

Researchers have determined a method to identify characteristic statistical signatures across unmeasurable probability distributions. Instead of a complete "fingerprint," they were able to distill the information from data sets which were reduced

A research team at Chalmers University of Technology is now among the first in the world to submit results indicating that they have actually succeeded in manufacturing a topological superconductor.

Elon Musk tweets that the Starlink constellation of thousands of gigabit per second internet satellites will help get internet to the last billion and areas in the developed world with bad internet service.

"Star Trek Online" players can put a lot of time into choosing, outfitting and customizing their starships, and now that work can follow them into the real world -- with hand-painted 3D-printed starships based on their exact designs.

A company that builds big, inflatable space habitats has launched a new venture that will market and operate these structures in Earth orbit and beyond.

A very confused helicopter? Or the future of aerial mobility?

Airspace Experience Technologies, LLC (AirSpaceX) has given a preview of its vision for the future of air taxi services at this year's North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit.

As recently covered by CCN, Venezuela's Petro (PTR) oil-backed cryptocurrency is now being sold to investors in its pre-sale stage.

The goal, to create a constellation of more than 12,000 satellites, is part of a project called Starlink.

It "missed by a few hundred meters."

China has a new lighter and stronger military exoskeleton. Refinements in weight, ergonomics, and power supply could boost the second-generation exoskeleton's coefficiency ratio. Norinco claims that the reduced weight increases battery performance.

Toyota has developed the world's first neodymium-reduced, heat-resistant magnet. Neodymium magnets are used in various types of motors such as the high-output motors found in electrified vehicles, use of which is expected to increase rapidly in the

The time has come. After 78 years, the helicopter has been reinvented. SureFly is a personal helicopter/VTOL aircraft designed for safe and easy flight. With eight independent motors each driving a single carbon fiber propeller, a backup battery powe

Venezuela has announced that the pre-sale of its oil-backed cryptocurrency, the petro, has attracted $735 million on the first day. The government has also published a buyer's manual and confirmed that buyers can use "hard currencies and cryptocu

The end of the line is coming for 60 million global apparel workers, mostly in Sootheast Asia.

The National Space Society has a 33-page analysis of heat and energy transport and management for an outline but realistic habitat design.

Fifty SpaceX Falcon BFR could technically enable sustainable orbital colonies for 2 million people by 2040

Elon Musk's SpaceX won an endorsement on Wednesday from Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai to build a broadband network using satellites.

UK needs 12 years to build 440 MW nuclear reactor while China needs 3 years to make 400MWth reactors

Blockchain 3.0 with Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAG) for ten of thousands of transactions per second

Motherboard visits the laboratory of Nikhil Gupta, a professor who is currently working on creating lightweight metal foams that could be a game changer for our transportation of tomorrow.

It's not much now, just a parking lot with a discarded gin bottle and an old exterminator receipt.

Although we're yet to see a Hyperloop system hit its promised subsonic speeds, it is full steam ahead when it comes to route-planning and feasibility studies.

Researchers at the University of Georgia have developed a new stem-cell-based treatment for strokes.

Drink a couple of glasses of wine or beer each night and put on a few pounds

A satellite phone is a life-line for those who live off grid. If you need emergency services and/or rescue you need a reliable way to get help.

Elon Musk's Boring Company has been given an early, and vague, building permit to begin some extremely preliminary work on a section of an underground Hyperloop tunnel in DC. DC officials have not committed to the project long-term yet. DC Depar

Coming to a Home Depot near you: Tesla's "invisible" solar roof tiles and home energy storage units will become available this year

Photons, the elementary particles that make up light, are known to be fast, weightless and to not interact with each other.

Using a stock laser, researchers can carve edible circuits into food. Prepare for cuisine that can communicate.