A group of African girls have made an engine that runs on a truly renewable resource: human urine. Over the last two days, Lagos, Nigeria has hosted Maker Faire Africa, the Maker movement’s bastion on that [...]

Results show the plasma is stable and the method is energy-efficient Researchers around the world are working on an efficient, reliable way to contain the plasma used in fusion reactors, potentially bringing down the cost [...]

Silk is biocompatible, biodegradable, and extremely hardy Spiders use their silk to catch lunch. Now physicists are using it to catch light. New research shows that natural silk could be an eco-friendly alternative to more [...]

Modern Meadow–a lab-grown meat startup–is getting closer and closer to growing leather in a test tube. But that’s just the beginning. Why grow regular leather when you can use your lab to make leather better? [...]

An Australian-led research team said Thursday they had made a technological breakthrough in the race for a quantum supercomputer that could revolutionise data encryption and medicine. Engineers from Sydney’s University of New South Wales said [...]

Why carve out a farm on land when you can put it anywhere you want on the ocean? When you can’t find room on land for something, make it float. It’s a principle that’s already [...]

The initiative has also received the support and blessing of the Dalai Lama. Russian media magnate Dmitry Itskov is heading “Avatar,” a tremendously ambitious and far-reaching multidisciplinary research project that aims to achieve immortality in [...]

Could be available by 2030 LONDON to Sydney in just four hours – that’s the aim of US aeronautical engineers as they race to develop a ‘Son of Concorde‘ prototype. Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Gulfstream [...]

A layered design would split two key aspects of a light wave, enabling electromagnetic energy to pull objects Tractor beams, a staple of science fiction, may be moving closer to science fact. In a paper [...]

Antimatter propulsion is the Holy Grail of spaceflight. When matter and antimatter react, the energy produced is several billion times larger than the thermomechanical energy resulting from burning a kilogram of a hydrocarbon fuel. Now [...]

Researchers at Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) have now proven the theory   Last year, we looked at three potential “tractor beam” technologies being evaluated by NASA to deliver planetary or atmospheric [...]

Some of the elements could start actual development within six years   A driver’s mood can greatly affect his or her performance on the road and spell the difference between an easy cruise or an [...]