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India is heading to the moon: Lunar lander 'Vikram' successfully releases from the Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft and will touch down later this week

The combo of Tesla and SpaceX is a match made in...

Fatter Starship 2.0 Will Go Anywhere on Earth With More Safety

"Babies and young children are like the R&D division of the human species," says psychologist Alison Gopnik. Her research explores the sophisticated intelligence-gathering and decision-making that babies are really doing when they play.

For those that are not computer nerds, a VPN involves technology that adds a security layer to private and public networks, including broadband and internet hotspots.

It is the 'holy grail' for scientists seeking to save thousands of people the misery of a trip to the dentist for a filling.

The SpaceX Super Heavy Starship will be able to launch 100 tons into orbit in a fully reusable basis, but Elon Plans the follow up to be 4 to 8 times bigger. Elon tweeted that Starship Version 2.0 will be 18 meters in diameter instead of 9 meters.

For the first time, brain tissue grown in a lab has spontaneously exhibited electrical activity, and it looks startlingly similar to human brain activity. More specifically, it resembles the brain activity of premature babies.

A robot pilot is learning to fly. It has passed its pilot's test and flown its first plane, but it has also had its first mishap too.

'Worm-like' robot that crawls through the brain could treat stroke patients by clearing potentially fatal blood clots with 0.5mm 'thread'

The Fedor robot will spend 10 days on the International Space Station, learning tasks performed by astronauts.

On its second try, Russia's pilot-less Soyuz MS-14 successfully docked on the International Space Station's aft-facing Zvezda module.

A new geothermal energy project is now being piloted in Canada--and experts say that it could be a "game-changer" for clean energy.

A very long time ago, recorded in a book now known as the Smith Papyrus around 2600 to 2200 B.C, is reported to be the use of copper to sterilize chest wounds and drinking water. In another papyrus, the Ebers Papyrus, written around 1500 B.C., it's

SpaceX just had a successful 150-200 Meter hop of the Starhopper.

Boring Company is Elon Musk's third-highest value company after Tesla ($39 billion valuation as of Aug 28, 2019) and SpaceX ($33 billion). They just raised $120 million with a valuation of $920 million (just short of $1 billion).

An artificial intelligence project capable of writing fake news that was deemed 'too dangerous' to release to the public has been recreated by two university students.

Callers challenge Rob Dew about how Google is exploiting slave systems to set up the AI that could become the new nanny state.

In the United States and Canada, exposure to fluoride is widespread and comes primarily through ingestion of fluoridated water supplied by community water systems. Although some U.S. residents consume drinking water that is fluoride-free, the majorit

(Natural News) Big things do come in small packages, and unfortunately, this also applies to health problems. Bacteria may be the tiniest living organisms, but they can cause some of the worst infections on the planet. A good example of a potentially

Drones buzzing overheard delivering small packages or medical supplies from A to B seems to be in our immediate future. Now Bell has joined the cargo drone race with the APT 70, which has just nailed its first autonomous test flight.

Pebble Beach was full of EVs this year.

for Recharging...This dump truck is the largest electric vehicle in the world--and since it generates all the electricity that it needs for transportation, it does not even need to be manually recharged.

We've recently been hearing a lot about 3D-bioprinting, a technique in which small body parts can be 3D-printed out of biological tissue. Now, new technology promises to make the process quicker and thus more practical than ever.

Maxlimer could be the first unmanned surface vessel to make the vaunted crossing--opening the way for a new generation of oceangoing drones, cutting prices and carbon footprints.

Auto-immune diseases like multiple sclerosis (MS) occur when the body's immune cells attack healthy tissues. In the case of MS, the cells target the protective layer surrounding the nerves. While the reason for this happening is still unclear, a ne

Through treating everything from strokes to car accident traumas, neurosurgeon Jocelyne Bloch knows the brain's inability to repair itself all too well. But now, she suggests, she and her colleagues may have found the key to neural repair:

Tucker Max tried to drown his childhood sadness in booze and sex. That didn't work, although it netted him a best-selling book and a movie based on his story.

The Goal of Gateway Foundation Von Braun Station is to build a dual-use station that is economically self-sustaining.

A Texas-based company recently raised $4.5 million in seed funding to develop and commercialize a revolutionary motor that produces more torque, double the power, and increases range in an electric vehicle versus one using a typical electric motor.

It'll debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show.

The SpaceX will have its second flight on Monday, August 26, 2019. This should be a 200-meter flight while the first flight was about 20 meters.

The agency wants input on how to send robots to the Moon to explore the virtually unseen caves, which could one day shelter humans.

Exponential technologies are fueling disruptive change in industries and societies around the world. This session provides a rapid-fire introduction to Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence, Cryptographic technologies and currencies, Next-generati

Roku has added five new channels to The Roku Channel. All of which offer free content to Roku owners. The channels add sports coverage, local and national news coverage, award-winning journalism, investigative reports, and comedy specials.

IT'S the most common form of cancer in the UK - killing seven Brits every day. But, would you know if you were developing skin cancer? Can you tell the dangerous moles from the harmless?

Spiral light reveals living creatures.

Few prospective parents realize that ultrasound technology is not just sound waves but is based on non-ionizing radiation. Other examples of man-made non-ionizing radiation include cell phones, cell towers, cordless phones, Wi-Fi and more.

Starship Technologies, an autonomous delivery company, focused on last-mile delivery services, announced Tuesday via a company press release, that it will launch delivery robots on 100 university campuses across the US in the next 24 months.

Alzheimer's hope as scientists find a way to stop the build-up of plaques in the brain that are considered to be a tell-tale sign of the cruel disease

In addition to being quite small, it's also pretty light, tipping the scales at 6.35oz. It's about an inch smaller than typical 10,000mAh power banks on the market in terms of length, which makes it quite a bit easier to carry around in a pocket.

If you have a car with push-button ignition, there's a new gadget coming along that should have you feeling quite excited: KETO allows you to unlock your car with your smartphone, making it easier than ever to jump in and start rolling.

Hybrids are falling out of favor because . . . well, because they're sensible. That's not said, of course. The stated complaint is that they still burn gas, damn them. But very little gas.

What do Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and tiny homes have in common? More than many might think.

Starship Technologies is making delivery robots and they just received $40 million in funding. The robots are advanced devices that can carry items within a 4-mile (6km) radius.

The Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE) is the largest chip ever built and has one 1.2 trillion transistors. It is the heart of a deep learning system.

In 2018, OpenAI discovered that the amount of compute used for AI training doubles every 3.5 months. By comparison, the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits only doubles every 18 months, a.k.a Moore's Law.

It's become all too common for a startup to materialize out of nowhere with claims of having the next groundbreaking electric car.

In order to help detect spoilage and reduce food waste for supermarkets and consumers, researchers have developed new low-cost, smartphone-linked, eco-friendly spoilage sensors for meat and fish packaging.

The proposed airships would move cargo more efficiently than oceangoing freighters -- and produce far less pollution.