NASA-approved electric airplane flies 200 miles in 2 hours

So this is cool. Electric airplanes have been gracing our pages for years now, and while they remain infeasible as a replacement for commercial airliners (duh), they continue to inspire folks with their increasingly impressive feats of sustainable

20 best microphotos of 2011

Check out photos of the 20 Best Microphotos of 2011

The rise of artificial intelligence personal assistant

Soon each and every one of us will have a PA, even PAs themselves. Artificial Intelligence Assistants are at last making a proper entrance.

New ‘FeTRAM’ memory uses 99 percent less energy than flash memory

A new type of nonvolatile computer memory that could be faster than the existing commercial memory and use far less power than flash memory devices is being

Smart clothing: memory-storing fiber could lead to smart fabrics and wearable electronics

Scientists at the Center for Nanotechnology at NASA Ames Research Center have developed a new flexible memory fabric woven together from interlocking

NASA to demonstrate communications via laser beam

It currently takes 90 minutes to transmit high-resolution images from Mars, but NASA would like to dramatically reduce that time to just minutes. A new optical communications system that NASA plans to demonstrate in 2016 will lead the way and even allow the streaming of high-definition video from distances beyond the Moon.

Breakthrough: proton-based chips that communicate directly with living things

University of Washington scientists have just crossed another major threshold between humans and machines: they

Social times | 3D projection mapping taking the advertising world by storm

3D projection mapping has recently emerged as one of the coolest forms of advertising, with big companies like Nokia, Samsung and BMW projecting beautiful 3D

How to print a clock, or a house … or another printer

MIT is pushing the boundaries of the 3D printing technology (3DP) it helped pioneer nearly two decades ago. 3DP printers build 3D solid objects by

How to make your hard drive infinite

A startup called Bitcasa has developed a small piece of software that, when you install it, makes the capacity of your computer

Cellular biocomputer diagnoses and zaps cancer

Researchers led by ETH Zurich professor Yaakov Benenson and MIT professor Ron Weiss have incorporated a diagnostic biological “computer” network in

Good vibrations for future quantum computers

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) physicists have developed a new theory that shows that dot symmetry in quantum dots (semiconductors that

Breakthrough could double wireless capacity with no new towers

The days of waiting for smartphones to upload video may be numbered. Rice University engineering researchers have made a breakthrough that could allow wireless phone companies to double throughput on their networks without adding a single cell tower.