Inflatable spacecraft: Blown up in orbit THE International Space Station (ISS) is mankind’s holiday house in the sky. Like all such houses, it is a luxury item (costing $150 billion and risi... Read more
The amount of power to be reaped from tapping low- and high-altitude winds dwarfs global demand Wind turbines on land and offshore could readily provide more than four times the power that t... Read more
New flexible aerogels are 500 times stronger than earlier versions and will be used in everything from clothing insulation to building insulation. A major improvement in the world’s lightest... Read more
Compact accelerators can open up new possibilities for doctors, universities and industry Not even a month since researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory‘s National Ig... Read more
Countries have been slow to embrace the costly plants A demonstration power plant is about to fire up in Tianjin to create syngas, while the UK has relaunched a carbon-capture-and-sto... Read more
Researchers from a national security laboratory in the U.S. have announced a technology which can detect the presence of thousands of microorganisms in just 24 hours. Hundreds of thousands o... Read more