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Researchers Turn Car Battery Acid and Plastic Waste into Clean Hydrogen and New Plastic

'Spin-flip' system pushes solar cell energy conversion efficiency past 100%

A Startup Has Been Quietly Pitching Cloned Human Bodies to Transfer Your Brain Into

DEYE 215kWh LiFePO4 + 125,000W Inverter + 200,000W MPPT = Run A Factory Offgrid!!

China's Unitree Unveils Robot With "Human-Like Physique" That Can Outrun Most People

This $200 Black Shaft Air Conditions Your Home For Free Forever -- Why Is It Banned in the U.S.?

Engineers have developed a material capable of self-repairing more than 1,000 times,...

They bypassed the eye entirely.

The Most Dangerous Race on Earth Isn't Nuclear - It's Quantum.

This Plasma Stove Cooks Hotter Than The Sun

Transportation

The Crown has claimed regulatory control of every means of conveyance, stifling the free travel of individuals and their property. This is an intolerable act. Superior transportation technologies already exist, but are suppressed by regulations.

DHL's Tilt-Rotor 'Parcelcopter' Is Both Awesome and Actually Useful

Earlier this year, a small robotic helicopter flying through the Bavarian Alps made more than 100 deliveries between two villages that are within yodeling distance of each other but so far from anything else that they may as well be on Mars.

0 to 400mph in 2 seconds? Russian Railways eyes supersonic Hyperloop technology

Russian Railways is considering using super-fast Hyperloop technology, particularly for transporting freight. According to RIA Novosti, Russian Railways and Hyperloop One are discussing possible cooperation.

Startup wants to put self-driving big rigs on US highways

Picture an 18-wheel truck barreling down the highway with 80,000 pounds of cargo and no one but a robot at the wheel.

SkyRunner MK 3.2 flying buggy launches in the sky and dirt

Believe it or not, the world plays host to more than one off-road buggy that can tear up the dirt, then go airborne to fly from point to point. There's the Maverick flying car, and now there's the SkyRunner MK 3.2, itself an independently designed an

The Fastest Ship in the US Navy: Boeing Pegasus-Class Hydrofoils (720p)

This video depicts some of the Boeing-built hydrofoils named after Tucumcari, New Mexico, it was the basis for the technology used in the subsequent Pegasus-class patrol boats and the Jetfoil ferries. Its unique feature was a waterjet propulsion and

You can now sign up to take a driverless car for a spin around London

Registration has opened for the first public trial of autonomous self-driving cars in the UK.

SUV of electric bikes looks to conquer streets and dirt

SUV of electric bikes looks to conquer streets and dirt

The Age of the Hyperloop Has Arrived. (VIDEOS)

With a deep hum, linear induction motors spun up a powerful magnetic field along 200 feet of track in the Nevada desert. A shiny sled whizzed forward in a blur. Fifteen hundred pounds of aluminum reached 120 mph in just 1.5 seconds

See SpaceX's Epic Ocean Rocket Landing From 3 Angles (Video)

.This is what it looks like when a rocket blazes down out of a pitch-black sky and makes a pinpoint landing on a ship at sea. -

Watch Blue Origin's Reusable Rocket Land For The Third Time, From The Rocket's POV

It still hasn't landed on a droneship though

Michelin opens first plant dedicated to production of airless tires

A punctured tire is the definition of a bad day, but Michelin is taking some of the sting out as it announces the opening of its newest North American plant, which the company says is the first in the world dedicated to the manufacture of airless tir

LA to SF in 30 min: the hyperloop wars are on

Competing teams will be showing off their Hyperloop prototypes in a bid to see who can build the best, most viable system.

Hyperloop: How the 760mph train will levitate above a magnetic track

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies has revealed how its Elon Musk-inspired bullet train will levitate on a magnetic field as it blasts between stations at the speed of sound.

Is this the future of private jets?

Is this the future of private jets? The world's first electric vertical take-off and landing plane that you can fly out of your back garden

Daredevils plan to fly 90,000 feet up to the edge of space

powered by just the wind after successful test flight of new super-light glider

LILLIUM: THE PRIVATE VTOL PLANE OF A QUIETER FUTURE

THE JETSONS? NO, THEY'RE OUR LOUD NEIGHBORS. WE'RE THE DUCTED FANDERSENS.

Falcon 9 beats the odds with nighttime barge landing

SpaceX has nailed a night landing of its Falcon 9 booster. Against all expectations, the rocket not only achieved its second landing on the unmanned "Of Course I Still Love You" droneship, but did so in the dark, at high speed and with little fuel.

SpaceX's Falcon 9 Lands On Drone Ship--Again

Get used to it

Dezso Molnar interview: A different way of thinking about flying cars

It's not what you want to hear, but flying cars shouldn't be for everyone. Not in the short term. Not for a long time.

These boots were made for flying:

A chat with France's very own jet-powered fly boy, Franky Zapata

Franky Zapata zooms past farthest hoverboard flight record

A couple of weeks go we revealed the Flyboard Air, jet-ski champion Frank Zapata's latest attempt to launch himself skyward.

SpaceX fast-tracks Mars plans and shoots for 2018 launch of unmanned lander

Either Elon Musk really, really can't wait to get to Mars or the engineers working for him are building the necessary technologies a bit faster than expected.

Next James Bond Car Could Be An Electric Aston Martin

Perhaps Aston Martin CEO, Andy Palmer has been listening to Bill Nye (y'know, the science guy) in that James Bond needs get with the times, and upgrade to a plug-in ride, as Palmer told CNBC that indeed 007 may soon be sporting an electric Aston Ma

Graphene-based ultracapacitors give trucks a boost of acceleration

At the Commercial Vehicle Show in Birmingham, UK, French transportation technology developer Adgero will unveil a curtainsider semi-trailer fitted with a regenerative braking system that utilizes ultracapacitors to provide a boost of acceleration.

Valkyrie Might Be The Baddest And Most Gorgeous Plane Ever Made

It's one of 10 innovations to win a 2016 Invention Award

China's Jia Yueting Aims To Outmuscle Elon Musk?

Chinese billionaire Jia Yueting says that Tesla is a great company that has taken the global car industry into the EV era.

Solar Impulse 2 successfully completes flight to California after 62 hours

After taking off from Kalaeloa Airport in Hawaii on Thursday, the Solar Impulse 2 successfully landed at Moffett Air Field in Mountain View, California last night. Pilot Bertrand Piccard spent a total 62 hours flying the solar-powered plane.

Quadrofoil - Amazing Electric Hydrofoil of the Future

Can you imagine the thrilling feeling of flying above the water?

SOLAR PLANE RESUMES ROUND-THE-WORLD FLIGHT ON THURSDAY

THAT WAS A LONG LAYOVER- Just in time for Earth Day, the Solar Impulse 2 is taking to the skies, resuming its around-the-world journey on April 21 at 11:00 AM Eastern.

China wants to land on Mars by 2021:

Top official at the country's space agency reveals plans for mission to the red planet

UFO home concept floats off-grid ocean living

While you can always head for the hills to wait out the apocalypse, a more stylish option could be a fully sustainable floating home from Italian mini yacht-maker Jet Capsule.

Darpa's Developing Tiny Drones That Swarm to and From Motherships

US military apparently never tires of thinking up capability gaps, and that means we may soon see fleets of small drones dropping out of bombers, then later being yanked out of the sky by cargo planes.

Why SpaceX's Rocket Landing On A Drone Ship Is A Big Deal

There couldn't have been a more perfect launch than yesterday's. The sun was shining, a gentle breeze was blowing, and SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket took off right on schedule.

What Happens After You Land A Rocket On A Drone Ship?

SpaceX's next challenge will be in getting the Falcon 9 to shore

This Is The Defining Image Of The Commercial Space Age (So Far)

Two private spacecraft are now attached to the space station; more will follow

Flyboard Air redefines the concept of a hoverboard (Publisher Recommended)

The Air ditches the water jet for what appears to be a jet turbine engine, and allows him to fly untethered through the sky to a maximum height of 10,000 feet and a maximum endurance of 10 minutes. (ahhhh,... No Freaking Way!!!)

Techrules thinks it will get micro-turbines spinning in production cars

Describing itself as an automotive research and development company, China's Techrules is hell-bent on putting turbines into road-going vehicles.

SpaceX Just Stuck a Historic Landing. So What Now?

Today in space history, a rocket went to space. No big. But then it came back down and landed on a drone barge in the middle of the ocean.

Can Billionaire Robert Bigelow Create A Life For Humans In Space?

The baron of low-Earth orbit

Private Lynx Space Plane Could Take Off in Early 2017

As Virgin Galactic rolled out its brand-new SpaceShipTwo during a grand gala in Mojave, California, earlier this year, another private spacecraft was coming together virtually next door, with much less fanfare.

New piston skirt coatings promise significant reduction in engine friction

The piston skirt and pin account for about 17 percent of the frictional loss in a combustion engine as they are the most difficult to keep lubricated and have the largest contact surfaces.

Zoom to Mars in 6 weeks with new Russian nuclear-fission engine

A nuclear power propulsion system could propel a spacecraft to Mars in just over a month, a huge step forward from the current 18 months required. Russia might test a nuclear engine as early as 2018, the head of the Rosatom nuclear corporation reveal

NASA Is Finally Sending a Hotel Magnate's Inflatable Habitat to the ISS

When humans leave Earth for good, they're going to need somewhere to stay.

WATCH BLUE ORIGIN LAND ITS REUSABLE ROCKET FOR THE THIRD TIME

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos's side project Blue Origin launched its New Shepard rocket into space and back again on Saturday. This was the third time this particular rocket booster has flown and landed safely, underlining the design's potential for reusabi

We May Need Fusion-Powered Rockets To Stop Comets From Destroying Earth

Sometimes you just need a rocket that flies at 2 million miles per hour

Airborne Giant with 150 metre wingspan

A concept aircraft under development at Boeing's Phantom Works R&D unit, the massive Pelican would have a wingspan of more than 150 m, carry up to 1400 tons of cargo-

Spaceplane: Suborbital Vehicle for Space Tourism & Science

The Spaceplane is a European vision to bring cargo or paying passengers into suborbital space, for science or operational reasons.

What is KNARR™?

This simplified airship freight system involves very little infrastructure to make wind energy easily accessible everywhere - leading the way in greener, more efficient transport of heavy goods.

Long Distance Transport | The CL AirShip | The CargoLifter

Based on proven and certified components of the AirTruck product range, CargoLifter can develop and build a full-fledged AirShip.

CargoLifter CL160, Germany

The CargoLifter CL 160 is a semi-rigid airship under development by CargoLifter AG, a German company that plans to build airships capable of carrying enormous loads for the bulk air freight market.
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