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BAE Systems has said it will develop a laser-powered mirage-maker for the military within 50 years. The system, Laser Developed Atmospheric Lens (LDAL), would work by using a 'high pulsed laser system' to ionize a specific area of the…

Inside an intense tornado, it's always chilly - no matter the time of year. A new study from Concordia proves why that's the case. In an article forthcoming in the Journal of Aircraft of the American Institute of Aeronautics and…

Ever blown someone a kiss? Or sent them a kiss over the phone? Ever smashed your lips against a rubber pad that’s attached to your smartphone and actually sent them a kiss? Would you want to? The Kissenger (so named because…

The top 2 inches of topsoil on all of Earth’s landmasses contains an infinitesimal fraction of the planet’s water — less than one-thousandth of a percent. Yet because of its position at the interface between the land and the atmosphere,…

An electroencephalogram (EEG), technology that records brain activity, has been built into headrests produced by Changhong Research Labs and Freer Logic to keep you awake at the steering wheel. Sensors within the experimental…

The Airbus Group's Chief Executive has said that they plan to test a prototype for a self-piloted flying car as a way of avoiding gridlock on city roads by the end of the year. Airbus last year formed a division called Urban Air Mobility…

A strain of yeast has been genetically reprogrammed by MIT engineers so that it converts sugars to fats much more efficiently, an advance that could make possible the renewable production of high-energy fuels such as diesel. The…

The splashiest auto news coming out of CES and the North American International Auto Show has been about new models, self-driving tech, and wild concepts. But in a quieter series of moves, automakers also continued to strengthen their…

Market research shows, the average vehicle on American roads is nearly 12 years old, as drivers hold on to their old, reliable wheels for longer stretches of time. That has held true even as more people than ever bought new cars last year —…

Materials science is always an interesting field of research, looking at novel materials and how they might change the way we live—-or looking at traditional materials but in novel applications.