Testing the World’s First 3D-Printed Spacecraft Thruster With a Platinum Combustion Chamber and Nozzle

The world’s first 3D-printed spacecraft thruster with a platinum combustion chamber and nozzle recently successfully passed a heavy test that included an hour of firing and more than 600 ignitions. In the image above, you…

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Injectable Electronics in the Brain Can Treat Disabilities

Although it sounds weird, it is true that injectable electronics can be placed directly onto the brain for the treatment of disabilities. An international group of researchers has developed a thin polymer mesh that can be fixed with…

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Indestructible Hockey Puck Part 2: Facing the Never-Ending Fire Burn of Thermite

First of all, please don’t ever try this no matter how many hockey pucks you have at your disposal. Thermite, a pyrotechnic composition of metal powder fuel and metal oxide, which essentially burns endlessly, is…

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Fly From London to New York in Less Than an Hour on a Hypersonic Plane

The fastest flight between New York and London was on 7 February 1996 when a British Airways Concorde crossed the Atlantic from New York to London in a record-breaking time of two hours, 52 minutes. But…

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Emotion Aviation Touting New 287 mph Jet Engine Powered Helium Airship

Airship Market Heating Up Inventor L. Mike Kelley and former Jet Propulsion Labs (JPL) and B2 Bomber design team manager and engineer David L. Swain of Malibu Beach, California are on a mission to bring…

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Take a Look at the First Ever Full-Color HD Videos from the International Space Station

We have seen some beautiful images taken by NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station over the years, but today is a special day when it comes to the ISS and capturing Earth from above.…

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VirScan Provides Your Entire Viral Infection History from a Single Drop of Blood

A research team at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston has created a new test that is capable of identifying all the viruses that have infected a person over his or her lifetime. It’s called VirScan…

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“Merlin” Identifies Birds By a Photo: A Sort of “Face Recognition Tech” for Ornithology

Seeing a beautiful bird in a tree while squinting through binoculars and then trying to recall the markings for identification is a real challenge for bird watchers. Even dedicated birders can be stumped. It almost…

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Wirelessly Power Your Electronics With Po Wi-Fi

In the future, you may be able to pull power out of thin air. A team of researchers at Sensor Systems Lab at the University of Washington is working on a Wi-Fi-based device to do…

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BMW Proposes Street Light Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles to Eliminate Range Anxiety

As electric vehicles continue to try and revolutionize the automotive industry, it has become quite clear that the range anxiety issue and lack of charging stations both need to be addressed. BMW has an interesting…

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