This is my final year university project for Transport Design BA (Hons) at the University of Huddersfield. This is a luxury cruise concept based upon an airship platform. This allows passengers to travel at high speed in luxury. It is also provide t

Researchers from the University of Central Florida (UCF) have devised a technique for creating flexible supercapacitors that not only store more energy than comparable devices, but can also be fully-charged in seconds and continue to be recharged mor

MIT makes compressed graphene sponge material that is 20 times less dense than steel but 10 times stronger, light as stryofoam but stronger than steel

An innovative new cheap and simple mass production technique, developed by the University of Exeter, is set to open up the global potential of the 'wonder' material graphene.

Researchers Use World's Smallest Diamonds to Make Wires Three Atoms Wide for early example of diamondoid assembly

Physicists engaged in the construction of a nuclotron-based ion collider (NICA) facility in Dubna, outside Moscow plan to combine efforts to create of a unique electron positron collider at Novosibirsk's Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics. Promoters

Slight variations in the moon's gravitational tug have hinted that kilometers-wide caverns lurk beneath the lunar surface.

from the quantum vacuum, using no moving parts and producing no exhaust. (NaturalNews) I'm a fan of physicist Richard Feynman, and one of his most memorable quotes explains that "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts."

Suspended animation may help us survive interplanetary travel, but it won't keep us alive for 120 years

Online retail giant granted patent for astonishing blimp which can carry a vast fleet of robotic flying vehicles

Physicists from Stanford University say they have just invented the world's narrowest electrical wire, just three atoms wide, using diamandoids (the smallest component parts of a diamond) to do so.

Hexagonal diamond Lonsdaleite created in Australia and it is 58% harder than regular diamond

Gerald Black - Nuclear Fusion is the solution to energy problems and to advance space propulsion

SABRE - Synergetic Air Breathing Rocket Engine - is a new class of engine for propelling both high speed aircraft and spacecraft. SABRE engines are unique in delivering the fuel efficiency of a jet engine with the power and high speed ability of a ro

US Army Research lab has created on demand custom 3d printing of drones.

The US Air Force (USAF) has issued a request for proposals (RFP) related to its efforts to field a laser-based self-protection system for its tactical combat aircraft.

Here is a possible timeline for the emergence of a true space age over the next 20 years.

Technologies are maturing and converging to make small, affordable airplanes feasible says Brian German, an aerospace researcher at Georgia Tech.

Nextbigfuture has reviewed AI and Computers and Space for 2016 and looked ahead in those areas. Here we will look at Energy.

Scientists have identified an unexpected cause of poor performance in a new class of flexible and cheap solar cells, bringing them closer to market.

The wonder-material graphene may have a new trick to add to its resume: converting carbon dioxide into liquid fuels.

The Pentagon has partnered with Stellar Science to expand the US Air Force modeling technology behind its next-generation airborne laser weapons.

Gerald Black - Nuclear Fusion is the solution to energy problems and to advance space propulsion

This is one of the Nextbigfuture article series reviewing developments in 2016 and looking ahead to developments over the next few years.

Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) have designed a nano crystal around 500 times smaller than a human hair that turns darkness into visible light and can be used to create light-weight night-vision glasses.

SABRE - Synergetic Air Breathing Rocket Engine - is a new class of engine for propelling both high speed aircraft and spacecraft.

The teams will use the same PSLV rocket

EMDrives are claimed to be propellentless space propulsion systems. If propellentless propulsion is possible it could enable fast human travel throughout the solar system and possible interstellar missions.

Jerry Pournelle is a famed science fiction author who also had an interesting technology career

The Google Lunar XPrize challenges privately funded teams to be the first to land on the moon, travel 500 meters, and send back pictures, for a $20 million jackpot.

September 26 SpaceX CEO Elon Musk twitted: "SpaceX propulsion just achieved first firing of the Raptor interplanetary transport engine" Elon Musk revealed more Sept. 27, 2016 at his talk at the International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Me

A wolverine inspired material: Self-healing, transparent, highly stretchable material can be electrically activated

Advances in robotics and additive manufacturing (3D printing) technologies are game-changing for space colonization.

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Today, SpaceX filed with the FCC to obtain the rights to operate 4,400 satellites to offer internet services from orbit, a plan that was announced last year.

DARPA funds 30 KW X4 liquid piston engine that is 90 times lighter than a conventional 2700 lb military 30 KW diesel generator

Google, Microsoft, labs and start-ups will create universal quantum computers in 2017 and achieve quantum supremacy over classical computers

China's ambitious and fast-growing space program is targeting a landing on the dark side of the moon by 2018, and reaching Mars before the end of the decade.

The New Year is upon us at last, so let's all celebrate, make resolutions, and firmly kick 2016's ass out the door.

DARPA aims for personal mobile ultra low frequency radio for transmitting devices to communicate through water and soil instead of 2000 acre transmission complexes using megawatts of power

The DARPA Warrior Web program aims to significantly lower the "metabolic cost" -- or energy expenditure -- of troops operating in the field, and reduce the physiological burden of the gear that they carry, which can exceed 100 pounds.

The Korean Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) tokamak-type nuclear fusion reactor has achieved a world record of 70 seconds in high-performance plasma operation, South Korea's National Fusion Research Institute (NFRI) has announced.

Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) have designed a nano crystal around 500 times smaller than a human hair that turns darkness into visible light and can be used to create light-weight night-vision glasses.

Microsoft Skype just expanded its feature allowing users to translate their speech in real time.

Skype provides realtime language translation for nine languages works with skype, mobile phones and landlines

Virgin Galactic's 1st Glide Flight of VSS Unity Spaceship

German Xprize team sets its sights on a vintage moon buggy

Having been attached to the International Space Station for six months, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, better known as BEAM, is already providing data that will inform the design of future human-rated expandable space habitats. The module wa

An inflatable space habitat that could save weight and volume on future missions is showing how well it can do its job. The verdict: So far, it works, and that gives the habitat a better chance of being part of future space efforts.

Sometimes it would be useful, or even just cool, to be able to illuminate a whole wall.