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

After early escalation and record-setting bombs, President Trump is looking for a way out of Afghanistan.

A woman is facing 30 days in jail because her son missed too many days of school. His 82% attendance record wasn't enough to keep her out of court.

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.

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,

Elon Musk is kinda worried about AI. ("AI is a fundamental existential risk for human civilization and I don't think people fully appreciate that," as he put it in 2017.)

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

That science fiction future where robots can do what people and animals do may be closer than you think. Marc Raibert, founder of Boston Dynamics, is developing advanced robots that can gallop like a cheetah, negotiate 10 inches of snow, walk upright

The record-setting lunar eclipse paired with an extra-close Mars will soon have sky-watchers seeing red.

Graphene is a form of carbon that could bring us bulletproof armor and space elevators, improve medicine, and make the internet run faster -- some day.

Skeleton Technologies is an interesting startup from Estonia, which develops and produces ultracapacitors that could be utilized in electric vehicles.

The future of manufacturing is truly wild.

Global Population Growth Ceased In 1988...Population Has Only Grown Older Since Then

The utter malevolence of our political class was dramatized in all its darkness by their reaction to the Helsinki summit: the "Treason summit" they dubbed it, with the Twitter hashtag going viral.

world with limitless energy...(Natural News) Is it really possible to capture the energy released during nuclear fusion reactions and turn it into an unlimited power supply for the entire world? A startup energy company based out of Washington state

The engines of an airplane are complicated machines with plenty of hard-to-reach places, and keeping them in working order requires a lot of time and maintenance.

Ionic materials could achieve 50% higher energy density while costing less than $100 per kwh

Arxiv – Observation of the Meissner effect at room temperature in single-layer graphene brought into contact with alkanes

Isreali startup SpaceIl plans to launch a lunar lander and robotic rover to the moon in December, 2018. SpaceIL had been competing in the Lunar Xprize contest. The Lunar XPrize had a few deadline extensions but was finished with no winner earlier thi

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An Israeli organization said Tuesday that it hopes to become the first non-governmental entity to land a spacecraft on the moon when it attempts to launch a module later this year.

Ever hear about "Lifelog?"

It's getting hot in here, so protect all your probes.

Justin's note: California could soon become three states.

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AI-powered robot mimics ANY action after watching a person do it just once, paving the way for machines to learn new skills in the same way as humans

The Kroger Co. could soon unleash a fleet of autonomous grocery delivery vehicles across the United States if its on-road, fully autonomous pilot program is successful.

Lockheed Martin ONYX powered lower-body exoskeleton can increase mobility and reduce fatigue of its users.

Florida's Aergility has spent the last few years developing and testing a new kind of vertical take-off and landing aircraft (VTOL) called the ATLIS. The wingless autonomous delivery drone is being designed to fly at 100 mph for hundreds of miles on

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.

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

Japan's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) is trying to leverage research on solid-state batteries for electric cars.

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

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

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

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.

Last night, Argentina got 50 billion pieces of good news, when the IMF agreed to provide the troubled Latin American nation with a $50BN standby loan, the largest even in IMF history.

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

Pre-historic times and ancient history are defined by the materials that were harnessed during that period.

Researchers at MIT have developed a method to produce high quality graphene at a commercial scale.

Nestled in between satellites and drones are autonomous aerial vehicles known as High Altitude Pseudo Satellites (HAPS), which can soar at the edges of space for long periods of time, acting as telecommunications relays or environmental monitors.

Most batteries are made up of a cathode on one side and an anode on the other, with a nonconducting separator between them.

By: Markab Algedi / The Mind Unleashed Melbourne, Australia is now the city that contains the world's largest known 3D printer. Melbourne based manufacturer Titomic recently displayed their accomplishment by printing a large metal rendering of th

Everything you wanted to know about soft, hard, and nonmurderous automatons.

When NASA's Mars 2020 rover touches down on the Red Planet in February 2021, its manifest will contain something never seen before off Earth – a helicopter.

Boston Dynamics' robots look more natural and more amazing with each video, and today the company posted two more clips to its YouTube channel showing the latest progress of its Atlas and SpotMini robots.