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A startup's concept drawing of a hulking device to archive data in DNA molecules shows the idea has a way to go.

A spacecraft designed to eventually replace many spacewalking astronaut activities passed two key pressure tests in September, representatives from the company building the spacecraft told Space.com in an exclusive interview.

"We should be in space within weeks, not months. And then we will be in space with myself in months and not years," the Virgin founder and CEO told CNBC's Nancy's Hungerford in Singapore Tuesday. The serial entrepreneur, who owns the commerc

The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday revoked the use of seven food additives after environmentalists and food safety experts presented data showing six of the synthetic flavoring substances and flavor enhancers caused cancer in laboratory an

The reality distortion field is real, and it's getting better every day.

Space-elevator tech, a longtime sci-fi staple, is about to get a test here in the real world.

The Technocrat leaders of the 5G revolution go way beyond just cell-phone carriers and include any all proponents of Smart Cities, Internet of Things, autonomous vehicles, ubiquitous surveillance and law enforcement. In the rush to 'light up IoT"

Elon Musk is making good on his promise to fix Flint's water and he is starting by installing filters on every single school.

In the darkened Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, hundreds of people couldn't wait to see legendary rocker Roy Orbison. A live orchestra pumped up the crowd with a medley of his hits. Old photos of him flashed across a giant screen.

Have you ever wondered why you should start your own garden when food is readily available at grocery stores?

The digitization and automation of processes and delivery vehicles will reduce logistics costs for standardized transport by 47% by 2030, according to a new report from PwC's Strategy and consultancy.

HES Energy Systems revealed its plans for Element One, the world's first regional hydrogen-electric passenger aircraft. They have been developing hydrogen propulsion systems for drones for the last 12 years.

HES Energy Systems revealed its plans for Element One, the world's first regional hydrogen-electric passenger aircraft.

Sporting a trendy brown bob, a humanoid robot named Erica chats to a man in front of stunned audience members in Madrid.

NASA has announced the first crewed flight by a SpaceX rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) is expected to take place in June 2019.

All around us are the almost unimaginable benefits of markets, cooperation, and technology, yet somehow we're naïve if we don't want to funnel human activity through government cattle chutes.

Nearly everyone is giving themselves cancer ever day by eating cancer-causing foods and using cancer-causing personal care products on their skin.

A Toronto-based sex doll brothel hoping to slip into Houston had cold water poured over its plans, after the City Council on Wednesday updated a rule on sexually oriented businesses prohibiting the use of the silicone seductresses for masturbatory pu

Lockheed Martin revealed a giant crewed lunar lander concept and showed how the reusable lander aligns with NASA's lunar Gateway and future Mars missions.

Mayo Clinic anti-aging researcher James Kirkland published about a drug combination that can slow and reverse senescent cells in mice.

When we last heard about courier company DHL's Parcelcopter delivery drone, it had been delivering medication to a remote island village and a mountaintop community, both in Germany. Now, the most recent version of the aircraft has just completed a p

What's the most common event most of us have to deal with, at least on a short-term basis? Power outages! Not only do they happen alone, but an extended blackout often follows many other major disasters.

(Opt Out of Cancer, part 2) - To pull this off, cancer doctors deceive patients about the causes of cancer, pretending that cancer is a spontaneous disease without cause. Yes, that's blatant quackery and junk science, but that's what oncologists

'A land full of wonder, mystery and danger! I landed on asteroid Ryugu!'

Further to opening our eyes to new perspectives on our environment, we are beginning to see how drones can also play very active roles in its construction.

Grier, a self-described inventor who has worked at a local bed and breakfast, built the new "ribbon gun" with a hobbyist's tools. It looks like a space-age toy drawn by a fifth-grader.

Jobs of America's 10 million construction workers are in serious jeopardy to be replaced by robots. What's the point? Technocrats invent because they can, not because it is wise to do so. Will humanity de humanized if it is cared for exclusively

Hyperloop passenger pod that could one day hit 760mph revealed ahead of first trials in Spain next year

Helion Energy has successfully raised $30 million raised in the past three years will be enough to get Helion through the debut of its 50-megwatt break-even nuclear fusion prototype.

Moon Express is planning to send new robotic explorers to the Moon starting in 2020. Moon Express had participated in the Google Lunar Xprize.

Iridium Communications announced Sept 27, 2018, it joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN) and has been collaborating with AWS on the development of Iridium CloudConnect, the first and only satellite cloud-based solution that offer

Marc Millis summarized the presentations at a Sept 10 to 14 workshop on propellantless propulsion in Estes Park Colorado.

Hypersonic travel, and maybe even a new type of orbital launcher, has come closer to reality after Boeing and Rolls-Royce today announced substantial investments in the British advanced propulsion systems company Reaction Engines Limited (REL).

With the quantum computing race heating up between Google, IBM and Intel, it feels like we're hurtling towards quantum supremacy, that milestone when a quantum computer outperforms a classical one for the first time.

Four years ago, the Dream Chaser's first glide and landing test ended in a crash after its landing gear failed to deploy correctly. Since then, the reusable spaceplane has undergone a complete refurbishment and finally achieved its first successful f

Scaled Composites is proud to announce the rollout and first flight of its most recent project, experimental aircraft Model 401.

The internet has made it easy for groups to collaborate from pretty much anywhere, but this experimental brain-to-brain "social network" could be the beginning of a whole new ballgame.

Back in 2014, we heard how scientists from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research had developed a wood-based foam that could be used as eco-friendly insulation. Now, they've combined it with metal to create a composite that has a much wider

Self-driving tractors which are powered by hydrogen and controlled by a mobile app could plough the world's farmland under one Italian designer's plans.

How robofurniture could revolutionize life in shoebox apartments: The $10,000 gadget that can transform size of living spaces with an app or voice command (and makes cleaning easier too)

Hmm … will it truly come to be? Perhaps, but it won't be this Rivian electric truck disguised as an F-150.

The compact, single-rotor engine sounds exactly like revived rotary that a Mazda exec is teasing.

Transhumanism is well on its way to becoming a reality in the United States military, as the Pentagon has announced that it's working on a new "neural interface" technology that would connect human brains directly to machines as a way to contro

Ford hints at a Tesla Semi contender

NuScale Power has selected BWX Technologies Inc (BWXT) as the first manufacturer of its small modular reactor (SMR). This marks the transition to the manufacturing phase and represents major progress in bringing the technology to market.

The pulsed fission fusion propulsion (PuFF) system envisions using a pulsed z-pinch to compress a fission-fusion target. 2 mega-amps would be sent through a uranium-deuterium-tritium target. The uranium would fission first and then it would trigg

(Natural News) A major pharmaceutical company has been outed for lacing tetanus vaccines with chemicals verified to have sterilized hundreds of thousands of innocent women and children throughout Africa.

Tiny super-strong robot 'caterpillar' with the equivalent strength of a human able to lift a 26-seat MINIBUS delivers drugs into the body by crawling inside using hundreds of hairy legs (but you have to SWALLOW it first)

First let me say, I am no expert. I have been keeping bees for the past year. It's been fun, frustrating, interesting and challenging. I'll share what I've done and hopefully those interested will find a bit of help. Just keep in mind; it's r

Gigafactory production capacity to hit 35 GWh annually this year.