Technology
Solar Powered Plane to Fly Across the US
On May 1, the world’s first solar-powered plane will take off from Moffett Field in Mountain View, California -- the…
Don’t Tell Bones: Are We One Step Closer to “Beaming Up?”
It's a crazy way to travel, spreading a man's molecules all over the Universe... While we're still a very long…
Amazing Map Is Made Up Of Everyone in the U.S. and Canada
Zoomable map of the US and Canada pinpoints everyone with a dot. (Credit: Brandon Martin-Anderson/Census Dotmap) Now this is…
Flying, Rolling Robot Might Make a Great Titan Explorer
The HyTAQ (Hybrid Terrestrial and Aerial Quadrotor) robot developed at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Ever since the Huygens probe…
White House Petition: Could we Build the Starship Enterprise?
Could we build a version of the Starship Enterprise over the next 20 years? Credit: BuildTheEnterprise.org Earlier this year, an…
NASA’s Version of Mr. Fusion
Researcher Stephen Anthony works with the new reactor prototype that could turn trash into gas. Image credit: NASA/Dmitri Gerondidakis It…
Google Honors Canadarm’s 31st Anniversary
Canada's most famous robot is on the front page of Google.ca today. The Google doodle honors the 31st anniversary of…
Huge New ESA Tracking Station is Ready for Duty
Caption: ESA's giant Malargüe tracking station Credits: ESA/S. Marti To keep in contact with an ever growing armada of spacecraft…
Could Plasma Jet Thrusters Kickstart Interplanetary Travel?
A great offshoot from commercial space companies getting a foothold in real missions to orbit is that the old entrepreneurial…
1,000 mph Land Speed Record Car Fires Up Its Engines
Caption: The BloodhoundSSC. Image Credit: Curventa and Siemens. 29 years ago today Richard Noble in Thrust2 broke the land speed…