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Solar Impulse 2 takes off for Egypt
Solar Impulse 2 has begun the penultimate leg of its round-the-world flight. Today at 9:22 pm PDT (4:22 GMT), the single-seater, solar-powered aircraft took off in the predawn darkness from Seville, Spain on course for Cairo, Egypt, with pilot André Borschberg at the controls. → Read More
Solar Impulse 2 completes short hop to Pennsylvania
Solar Impulse 2 has completed the 13th leg of its solar-powered around the world flight, touching down at LeHigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania. The single-seater aircraft reached its destination at 8:49 pm CDT after a near 17-hour flight from Dayton, Ohio. → Read More
Solar Impulse 2 temporarily grounded after hangar accident
Solar Impulse 2 is temporarily grounded in Dayton, Ohio after a minor accident involving the minor collapse of its inflatable hangar that resulted in the craft being lightly touched by the hangar fabric. The airplane will now spend several days on the ground as engineers search for damage. → Read More
OSIRIS-REx reaches Florida ahead of near-Earth asteroid mission
NASA's OSIRIS-REx deep-space probe has arrived at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, in anticipation of its September launch to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu. → Read More
Successful flight test for India's experimental reusable spaceplane
India today entered the ranks of spacefaring nations with reusable spacecraft as the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) conducted the first flight of its unmanned, scale hypersonic Reusable Launch Vehicle-Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD) spaceplane. → Read More
Solar Impulse 2 lands in Ohio
Solar Impulse 2 has touched down in Dayton, Ohio, on the latest leg of its global circumnavigation flight. With André Borschberg at the controls, the single-seater solar-powered aircraft landed at Dayton International Airport after of 16 hours and 34 minutes in the air. → Read More
Pittsburgh Steelers recruit robot player
The Pittsburgh Steelers have a new MVP ... and it's a robot. In this case, MVP stands for "Mobile Virtual Player" – a remote controlled robotic dummy designed to help players practice tackling and other plays with less risk of repetitive injuries. → Read More
US Navy takes possession of its largest ever destroyer
Following months of sea trials, the US Navy took formal possession of its largest ever destroyer as the future USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) changed hands from the Bath Iron Works shipyard in Maine. → Read More
Saab rolls out latest-generation Gripen E fighter
Saab says its new Gripen E multi-role fighter is a major advance over previous Gripens, with greater range and endurance, as well as more advanced weaponry and electronic warfare capability. → Read More
Experimental hypersonic craft hits Mach 7.5
The Australian Department of Defence today announced that the HIFiRE 5B hypersonic aircraft has reached a velocity of Mach 7.5 over the Woomera Test range. → Read More
Saab's underwater robot tackles terrorist bombs
Saab has developed its Sea Wasp underwater ROV for neutralizing terrorist IEDs planted in confined harbor areas. → Read More
New hybrid system gives robot arms human-like grace and precision
Disney's new robot uses a hydrostatic transmission that combines hydraulic and air lines, providing more degrees of freedom as well as greater precision and delicacy of touch. → Read More
Solar Impulse 2 reaches Oklahoma on 11th leg of circumnavigation
With a night landing at Tulsa Airport, Solar Impulse 2 completed the 11th leg of its solar-electric circumnavigation. With Bertrand Piccard at the controls the aircraft touched down at approximately 11:15 pm CDT after a slight delay due to a slow ascent caused by the aircraft's low power. → Read More
Hyperloop One shows off magnetic drive in dramatic demonstration
At a secluded test site in the Nevada desert about ten miles north of Las Vegas, Hyperloop One made its first public demonstration today of a key component of its new transportation system → Read More
Hyperloop Technologies (now Hyperloop One) on runup to test
Before an invited audience of guests and media in Las Vegas, Hyperloop Technologies declared that it will now be known as Hyperloop One. → Read More
Game changers: Do clever machines add up to AI?
What do human versus computer games like chess and go tell us about AI? Is the success of computers a harbinger of a machine-led future or are computers just very good at playing board games? To see how this could play out, we first need to look to the past. → Read More
Trident ballistic missile flies with first 3D-printed part
Lockheed Martin has announced that the first 3D printed components for an SLBM flew this week on test launches of three unarmed US Navy Trident II D5 Fleet Ballistic Missiles from a submerged submarine in the Atlantic Ocean. → Read More
Carbon nanotubes shown to protect metals against radiation damage
An international team of scientists led by MIT hhasave discovered that adding small amounts of carbon nanotubes to metals makes them much more resistant to radiation damage. → Read More
Self-adaptive composite heals itself and returns to its original shape
A team of scientists at Rice University have come up with a Self-Adaptive Composite (SAC) that is not only self healing, but can spring back into shape like a sponge. → Read More
World's largest connected radio telescope expands into Ireland
Irish government ministers announced today that Ireland has been chosen as the site for the latest station of the continent-spanning LOFAR network. → Read More