Back in 2014, a London-based startup called Gravity Sketch released a prototype for an impressive virtual reality sketching tool.

The enhanced silk was also 50 percent stronger than the regular stuff.

Red zeppelin: Russia set to unveil military airships capable of carrying 200 personnel and traveling up to 105mph without the need for a runway

Like other automakers around the world, Lexus is gearing up for the 2016 Paris Motor Show. Along with a world-premiere crossover concept, Lexus will reveal a very different kind of concept: a web-like driver's seat crafted from synthetic spider silk.

Luke Workman is a complete maniac. He's also one of the world's leading lithium battery pack designers for electric vehicles, and he's come up with a revolutionary battery design that he says could bring on clean, quiet, long-distance, commercial-sca

Researchers at the Huawei Technology Corporation have unveiled a new quick charging lithium-ion battery. The development is said to result in batteries that charge ten times faster than conventional Li-ion batteries.

To stay ahead in the war for the skies, Boeing chases a simple goal: sell as many 737 jets as it can. Things get more complicated when it comes to building most popular commercial jet ever.

The Navy plans to arm its destroyers and other ships with high-tech, low-cost ship-board laser weapons engineered to quickly incinerate enemy drones, small boats, aircraft, ships and missiles, service officials told Scout Warrior.

Zapata Racing has achieved the dream of mankind and offers you the first video of Franky Zapata flying on the innovation Flyboard® Air.

A source close to NASA Eagleworks has leaked the test results of the 'impossible' EM Drive.

- leaving just a pane of glass. Panasonic's impressive OLED television will disappear when it's not in use - making it almost undetectable

A 9-m (29.5-ft) long fully functional slide is claimed to be the first made entirely out of single pieces of glass.

The prospects for 3D printing may have just become a little bit stronger, literally, thanks to a new way of using metallic powders to create structures.

While there is a lot of attention on non-fossil-fuel sources these days such as solar and hydrogen, the true Holy Grail of alternative energy is nuclear fusion, which theoretically could produce an endless source of clean power.

The rebirth of the airship is the perennial Next Big Thing in aviation.

He's coming for you, NASA!

Using specially-engineered metamaterials, researchers at the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) have created the world's first microelectronic device that does not use semiconductors, but instead employs low-power laser optical control

Soft robotic components can be safer for humans to interact with, have an ability to grasp different kinds of objects and better handle rough environments, but more malleable parts have their downsides too.

Humans are said to have evolved from an ancestor that once swung through the trees to get about, free to move through the environment in almost any direction.

Crate news, everyone!

If humans eventually want to become a space-faring species, we'll need to be able to collect basic resources, like water, straight from the space environment; it's too expensive and risky to send everything up from Earth, most experts agree.

1,000 watts cleans pretty well...

When there's no network coverage or internet access, smartphones are rendered useless as a communications tool. The goTenna tackled this by allowing smartphones to communicate via their own radio-based network and, now, the goTenna Mesh can do so ove

Over the past few years, a lot of folks have started talking about the potential rebirth of supersonic travel--major companies, government agencies, and startups alike are striving to revive the age of the Concorde.

Fourth matter and the drag-cutting edge of aerodynamics

The rebirth of the airship is the perennial Next Big Thing in aviation. Of course, any talk of reviving the genre that never quite rose to meet its proponents' lofty expectations comes with the inevitable wisecracks about the Hindenburg.

Oakland nonprofit the Seasteading Institute, a group devoted to the development of floating colonies adrift from the oppressive moorings of society, has announced its dreams are closer than ever to reality. As soon as 2017, the institute hopes to bre

There's gold in them thar asteroids – also iron, nickel, copper and, most valuable of all, water.

The SpaceX CEO detailed his plan in a two-hour press conference

– but there's also a chance for the rest of us

Boeing's Renton plant builds 737 narrow-body jets at the rate of 42 per month, and climbing. Here's how.

Rubik's-cube-sized CubeSats are a nifty, cheap way for scientists to put a research vessel into space, but they're limited to orbiting where they're launched – until now.

A Russian airline entrepreneur wants to join the space race, challenging Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corp. and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin LLC with a plan to launch commercial rockets.

Talking about the weather is, for many people, boring. Or maybe you used to feel electric discussing things like warm fronts and lightning strikes, but lately your weather conversations lack, shall we say, thermal convection.

European aerospace giant Airbus has quietly lifted the curtain on an ambitious Silicon Valley project called Vahana. It's a pilotless passenger aircraft that aims to someday add a vertical component to your commute.

Imagine flying robots that never had to land, ever

For this project let's build a sexy looking generator that uses electricity to convert water into an extremely powerful fuel! Here's how to build an Oxy-Hydrogen generator from scratch.

to fry enemy drones . Instead of using rounds of bullets or shells to destroy enemy targets, this new weapon, which can be seen in this video, will use directed microwave energy

German solar technology firm Heliatek claims to have outdone itself by setting a new world record for directly converting sunlight into electricity using organic photovoltaic cells.

Blue Origin, the spaceflight company run by billionaire Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, will perform a critical "in-flight escape test" of its New Shepard suborbital space vehicle next week.

JetPack Aviation introduces the JB-9 JETPACK - The world's only true JetPack. Exclusive footage of the first untethered JetPack JB-9 flights.

With Zee.Aero and Kitty Hawk, the Google co-founder looks to the skies.

"All hands on deck" may become a thing of the past. Ship designers, their operators and regulators are gearing up for a future in which cargo vessels sail the oceans with minimal or even no crew.

Anyone who has taken introductory physics will recognize this famous question: Why can't you start your car with 8 AAA batteries instead of one 12 volt car battery?

Microcomputers are great for learning about code and hardware.

In addition to being aesthetically pleasing, these geodesic domes are environmentally-friendly, less costly than traditional homes, and are nearly disaster proof!

Deep-ocean entrepreneur Phil Nuytten is neither the first nor the last person to tussle with James Cameron on a film set. Acclaimed for directing the two highest-grossing movies of all time (1997's romantic blockbuster Titanic and 2009's CG break

MANY PEOPLE KNOW about the X Prize, the $10 million bounty that spurred the development of SpaceShipOne, the world's first private spaceship. But few people know about all the behind-the-scenes drama that plagued the prize from beginning to end.

TO GET TO the spaceship convention I have to go to Chattanooga. To a former train depot once called Terminal Station, a beaux-arts building downtown, which was built in a time when trains were the apex of industry--the smartest, fastest, most high-t

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