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Battery safety and performance have been the barriers to electrifying aviation so far. However, new battery technology under development by NASA may just break through those barriers. Electrifying flight will mean eliminating CO2 emissions…

Strong metal lattices are lighter than cork and have customizable mechanical properties. MIT researchers used kirigami, the art of Japanese paper cutting and folding, to develop ultra-strong, lightweight materials with tunable mechanical…

Generative AI rollouts have been the epitome of hype.  From concerns that AI unleashed would mean the rapid end of the Earth to, “Oh boy, this can do my work for me.” Make no mistake, the hype still exists. There's been a bit of a…

"The Jetsons" flying cars are becoming closer to reality based on NASA-proven propulsion system technology. Applied eVTOL Concepts introduced plans for the Epiphany Transporter, a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) vehicle capable of a…

Three years ago, Second Sight ran out of money. The blind users, helped by its Argus II retinal implant or its next-generation Orion brain implant for some approximation of vision, were left to wonder about the future. IEEE Spectrum …

Many space missions re-use technologies. For example, Voyager probes have been around longer than most of my readers. Launched 46 years ago, the twin probes still send data back to Earth (when someone doesn't tilt its antenna the wrong…

A research team at the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC) has shown that it is possible to manipulate photons into colliding, causing them to interact in new ways as they cross paths.  The…

In an era of rapid technological advancement, it's no surprise that the construction industry is embracing automation in a big way. Drones and robots, once relegated to the realm of science fiction, are now playing pivotal roles in shaping…

I'm flying soon and had to ponder if I'd be up to flying with Pibot or the airline pilot I know nothing about. A team of engineers and researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) is developing a…

High-temperature flames are used to create a wide variety of materials – but once you start a fire, it's not always easy to control how it interacts with the process. Researchers have now developed a technique that utilizes a molecule-thin…