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Boeing's Loyal Wingman jet-propelled combat drone has been put through its first high-speed taxi test in preparation for its maiden flight next year.

Researchers led by chemistry professors Sen Zhang and T. Brent Gunnoe have produced a new form of catalyst for more efficient hydrogen hydrogen using the elements cobalt and titanium.

A game-changing technique for imaging molecules known as cryo-electron microscopy has produced its sharpest pictures that for first-time can see individual atoms in a protein.

In 1979 Asha Deliverance sewed her first geodesic dome on an old Singer sewing machine, finishing it in time to become her eldest child's first home.

Electric bicycles may require less pedalling effort than regular bikes, but … their riders still have to shift gears. Paris-based electric mobility company Valeo is out to change that, by combining a motor with an automatic gearbox.

Chinese air mobility company EHang is on a mission to get its autonomous air taxis into the air around the globe.

Although quadcopter drones may offer relatively good battery life, their hexa- and octocopter counterparts can lift heavier loads. The xFold drone can go either way, however, with extra propeller arms that can be attached or detached as needed.

Electric cars and trucks may be the hottest topic in e-mobility, but quiet, clean-running electric drives have the ability to revolutionize all kinds of vehicles and machinery.

Magnix, a specialist for aeroplane electrification, is working with Sidney Seaplanes and Dante Aeronautical to convert a Cessna to zero-emission drive. The partners want it to become the first all-electric aircraft certified by the Australian Civil A

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Aerospace tests show circle designs would increase capacity, allow for simultaneous landings and take-offs and remove the risk of crosswinds

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a debilitating condition that can lead to total blindness in its later stages.

In July, 2020, ThorCon and Indonesia's Defense Ministry signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to study developing a 50 MW thorium molten salt reactor (TMSR) for either power generation or marine vehicle propulsion.

Many important and valuable planning and scheduling problems in logistics and automation are combinatorial optimization problems. The most famous problem of this type is the traveling salesman problem.

The AI startup Cerebras has shown that a single wafer-scale Cerebras CS-1 can outperform one of the fastest supercomputers in the US by more than 200 times for physics simulations and many AI applications.

TSMC's 5nm is in mass production. The 3nm will also be put into production in 2022.

Boring Revolution indicates that the Boring Company Prufrock tunneling machine should start digging test tunnels in 2021.

MSR (Molten Salt Reactor) is a fast or thermal reactor technology cooled by molten salts in the liquid phase and moderated, in most cases, by the graphite. In this technology, the fuel can be in either liquid or solid form.

"FLIGHT CREW IS READY" - VIRGIN GALACTIC PREPARES TEST FLIGHT FROM NEW MEXICO SPACEPORT

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Silicon has long been the gold standard for solar cells, but it's beginning to reach its limit. Perovskite is emerging as a promising partner, and now engineers have achieved a new efficiency record closing in on 30 percent for this kind of tandem

One of the ways scientists hope to offer better treatments for vision loss is through gene therapy, where carefully selected genetic material is injected into the eyes to address mutations.

Some things matter. The biggest scandal of Covid -- the one worth fighting for -- is that there are drugs that work, which are safe and well tested, but they suffer from the crippling problem of being too cheap for our captured public health insti

Students at the University of Middle Tennessee have installed a full plug-in hybrid kit in a stock 1994 Honda Accord. The setup gives between 50 and 100 percent better gas mileage with two electric motors delivering power directly to the rear wheels,

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The resurrected efficiency champion uses 2170 cells and targets 20,000 sales per year.

Researchers from PNNL may have found a stable solution for better Li-ion batteries.

Perovskite Tandem Solar Will Start Taking Solar to 43% Energy Conversion

Deep Mind has been able to make significant progress toward solving the protein folding problem. Protein folding is not solved yet.

Engineers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a new way to convert natural gas into a solid form, allowing it to be stored and transported more safely and easily.

Researchers in China claim to have achieved quantum supremacy, the point where a quantum computer completes a task that would be virtually impossible for a classical computer to perform.

Eleven inches across with electronics stuffed into it, her master's thesis project had an egg-shaped wing and a front propeller. The wing also had its own ailerons - a word derived from the French for little fins - that we see in modern aircraf

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Chinese scientists have built what they claim is a "revolutionary" hypersonic engine that could one day propel an airframe as fast as Mach 16, or about 12,300 mph, according to the South China Morning Post (SCMP), citing a new paper published in the

There are two huge aspects to a new antiaging drug. The first aspect is that a large portion of age-related brain decline is not permanent damage. This non-permanent damage is repaired overnight by a new antiaging drug. The Google-back antiaging comp

Since electric vehicles first started hitting the mainstream, people have been asking "why doesn't that have a solar panel roof?"

Having conquered the deepest recesses of the ocean with its DSV Limiting Factor "deep-sea elevator," and delivered its first 24-seat DeepView tourist submarine in Vietnam, Triton has turned its attention back to...

World's largest fully-autonomous DRONE unveiled by US space startup will launch satellites into orbit in as little as 180 minutes

It's long been thought that our cells stop dividing as we age as a natural preventative measure against cancer.

Chinese state media is reporting that its probe, called "Chang'e-5", has lifted off from the surface of the moon and is in the midst of completing the first stage of its return to Earth.

It's giga and it's a factory, but what does Gigafactory really mean?

SpaceX is set to perform testing with Starship SN8. This test will help verify that everything is ready to go ahead of the 15-kilometer hop scheduled for no earlier than Friday.

Two heavyweights in the world of high-performance battery technology are teaming up to create the world's first lithium-sulfur battery-powered luxury boat.

Virgin Orbit is preparing its pilots, Cosmic Girl mothership and LauncherOne rocket for a second attempt at orbital flight, today announcing that its Launch Demo 2 mission will take place a week before Christmas.

While snakebite antivenom is certainly a lifesaver, it's also expensive, time-consuming to produce, and must be administered by trained clinicians. A new low-cost type of antivenom, however, could conceivably be self-applied right away, on the spot.

With help from manufacturers like Canon, Nikon, Fujifilm, Panasonic and Sony, DSLR and mirrorless camera owners could put them to good use as USB webcams. But developer Jeff Geerling decided to take a more DIY approach by utilizing a Raspberry Pi Zer

We've already seen kits for converting traditional bikes to ebikes, and for converting them to pedal-powered snow machines. The Electric SnowBike Kit goes a step further, by combining the two.

ClearPHONE is a new type of privacy-first smartphone that runs Android apps but also gives consumers total control over their internet experience by blocking ads, cookies, trackers, behavior profiling, phishing, viruses, spyware, malware -- and if d

A novel outpatient procedure offers lasting pain relief for patients suffering from moderate to severe arthritis in their hip and shoulder joints.

The new fan costs only $5 and makes overclocking easier than ever.