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Ever since a huge wind destroyed our roof and left our rainwater harvesting system in shambles, we took a break from our house build to set up a new system by our compost station. It's an easy system to set up and has a 550 gallon capacity. This can

They successfully test the focal plane on the world's largest digital camera, which will eventually help explore the cosmos.

The British Navy tested having three commandos use Jet Packs to test boarding and capturing a patrol boat. The Gravity Industries Jet Suit has 5 engines, 1050 horsepower, and a top speed of over 85 mph. The suits cost about $440,000.

We all want faster smartphones and laptops, in smaller and smaller packages -- which means that heat dissipation becomes a vital part of their design.

Why not just conduct a randomized controlled trial to test whether masks work against COVID-19? Why assume such a draconian and dehumanizing mandate works as if it's an article of faith and create such division when we can discover which side is corr

Elon Musk is hoping to build a city on the Red Planet and knows the space colony will probably want to get online.

There is a breakthrough in experiments studying ultrafast processes. One of the most fundamental processes caused by the light-matter interaction where a light photon causes the ejection of an electron and the formation of anion.

In a truly remarkable feat of engineering, NASA's OSIRIS-REx has scooped a sample of soil from the surface of asteroid Bennu, as it hurtles through space some 205 million miles from Earth. The spacecraft successfully touched the asteroid Bennu on T

"A piece of primordial rock that has witnessed our solar system's entire history may now be ready to come home for generations of scientific discovery," said a NASA scientist of the U.S.'s first attempt to return an asteroid sample to Earth.

Today we share updates on our cows, and our plans for the herd next year.

Lay down hard tool steel weld beads... tell me that ain't nuts!

The largest cross-country 18-wheel trucks will need five to 10 times more electricity than an electric car to recharge its battery. And these trucks often need to recharge far from high-power transmission lines.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems new high-temperature superconductor (HTS) cable can be engineered into magnets directly applicable to the high magnetic field approach to fusion. The new HTS cable, called VIPER, can carry over fifty thousand amps of curre

University of Rochester researchers squeezed carbonaceous sulfur hydride in a diamond anvil and it superconducted at 15 degrees Celsius under 270 gigapascals of pressure. This is about 2.5 million times regular atmospheric pressure.

Special use permit applications and Design Review applications have been started for the Boring Company Las Vegas Loop system.

At the 2020 World UAV Conference in Shenzhen, Chinese heavy drone company Autoflight unveiled a big new canard-style electric VTOL cargo drone, and announced its intentions to develop a similar aircraft for urban air taxi operations.

A team of physicists from the University of Arkansas (U of A) has successfully developed graphene-based circuits capable of providing nearly limitless power for small devices.

A generator can save the day when the power goes out. But, do you really need the biggest one you can find? Consider this alternative strategy instead.

Lacto Fermentation... It's one of the safest and easiest preservation methods, plus it's also a great way to boost your immune system and can take your veggies to a whole new level!

Many will say that Tesla is an overvalued car company but forget to address an integral part of Tesla's business. In this video, I explain why Tesla battery farms will end power plants forever.

Before readers know it, restaurants of the future will have their entire front-end automated, nevertheless, the backend where the food is prepped will be operated by robot chefs.

The SPARC Fusion reactor team have made good theoretical progress to the goal of a commercial nuclear fusion reactor.

NORWICH, United Kingdom -- What's the secret to eternal youth? As scientists look for ways to extend life, a new study suggests the answer to healing older brains may be hiding in younger guts. Researchers say fecal transplants not only affect you

The Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has conceived some of the most interesting architecture projects we've seen on land, and even water, but its latest design is out of this world - literally.

With the recent passage of The Right To Try Act, in which non-FDA approved therapies can be used by patients, did Donald Trump inadvertently legalize psychedelic psychotherapy?

D-Wave Systems has released a Quantum Annealer with over 5000 qubits. They have over 250 applications that can be run on the system. The chip uses over 1 million superconducting Josephson junctions.

China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 snaps 'selfies' on its way to the Red Planet after releasing an on-board camera into space

Innovation hub Paris Region, airport operator ADP and urban transport operator RATP are eyeing the development of an urban air mobility branch ahead of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris, and have joined forces with German air taxi startu

When Hyundai debuted (rendered, really) its sci-fi-grade Elevate walking all-terrain vehicle concept at CES 2019, we assumed its design team just threw an all-time-great New Year's Eve bash and let the party favors do the designing.

Scientists have carried out an analysis of the energy potential of combining these facilities with floating solar panels, calculating these hybrid plants could meet a "significant" portion of the world's current electricity needs.

The High-Assay Low Enriched Uranium (HALEU) Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) system will allow the US military to carry out missions in cislunar space.

Some 50 miles outside London, roughly in between Cambridge and Oxford, lies a decent-sized town called Milton Keynes.

Looking for an easy way to transfer files from your Raspberry Pi to a PC? It's easier than you think and you have several options.

Learn how I'm getting super fast unlimited rural internet for my homestead for only $40/month via 4G. I combined an unlimited internet/phone service with the HiBoost signal booster for incredibly reliable and fast rural internet.

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this article misstated the April 2019 drone flight course and destination, from the Living Legacy Foundation to the University of Maryland Medical Center in downtown Baltimore.

Last year, we heard how Rolls-Royce was developing what it claims will be the world's fastest electric airplane, the ACCEL. Now, the company has announced that it has completed ground testing of the technology that will be used in the aircraft.

I've revealed some flaws in many popular apps and some of you want to turn into a luddite or live in a cave now. Are we completely zucked? Or do we still have a chance?

The first 200 get 20% off the annual Brilliant subscription! http://brilliant.org/MarcusHouse/. SpaceX's brand new Super Heavy monster is coming. Yep, the SN1 build has begun. Overall, another action-packed week of news at Boca Chica with starship

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This has been made possible by a seemingly fictional invention that has appeared over the last few years--organic, transparent solar cells that when inserted into panes of glass, absorb sun and turn it into electricity to power the building.

BlackSky is preparing for the next generation of its geospatial intelligence constellation.

Cell form factor and cell vehicle integration will improve EV range by almost a third without switching to a new chemistry.

--pointing to the sky and 'taking the knee' during a test in Yokohama

The Swarm-Probe Enabling ATEG Reactor, or SPEAR, is a nuclear electric propulsion spacecraft that uses a new, lightweight reactor moderator and advanced thermoelectric generators (ATEGs) to greatly reduce overall core mass.

Howe Industries is investigating a Pulsed Plasma Rocket system that can produce 20,000 lbs of thrust with an Isp of 5,000 seconds.

Algae could be used for fuel production on Mars and it would also produce oxygen on Mars. It would also produce fertilizer for growing crops on Mars.

Freefall Aerospace is a NASA NIAC (NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts) success story.

A New Shepard flight on Thursday will break the mark for reusing rockets.

The livestream will start at 4:30 PM Eastern, 9:30 PM GMT.

Trace the history of weather modification world wide as recorded by the United Nations World Meteorological Organization