The experimental train will be created by converting ScotRail carriages retired in December. It is likely to be tested on a heritage line in Scotland like the Bo’ness and Kinneil Railway, which has be

IN BRIEF After five years’ work, an MIT team can now fabricate a transparent version of a silica aerogel, an ultralight material that blocks heat transfer. They have used their aerogel in a solar ther

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker will kick off Thursday’s morning program, featuring TED-style talks from MIT faculty and remarks by Alphabet’s Eric Schmidt , as well as a panel of entrepreneur

Captured carbon dioxide could be used to extract useful metals from recycled technology such as smartphone batteries rather than just being buried underground. The technique could help make it more ec

THE GLOBAL STAGE FOR INNOVATION CES is the world's gathering place for all those who thrive on the business of consumer technologies. It has served as the proving ground for innovators and breakthroug

On Tuesday, A.I.-focused technology firm Hypergiant Industries announced a machine that uses the aquatic organisms to sequester carbon dioxide. Algae, the company claims, is “one of nature’s most effi

Online shopping makes life easier for consumers but it can harm the environment, especially if you opt for express delivery. German automaker Daimler has found one way to tackle the climate crisis. Mo

Here’s a list of promising drugs being tried on people infected with the virus. The new coronavirus that has sickened more than 70,000 people in central China is spreading, setting off outbreaks in So

For the first time, MIT researchers have enabled a soft robotic arm to understand its configuration in 3D space, by leveraging only motion and position data from its own “sensorized” skin.Soft robots

Canada is pitching itself to the world as a high-tech hotbed Since coming into office in 2015, prime minister Justin Trudeau has injected money to revitalise research and innovation, following ten ye

Something to look forward to: Some of the biggest problems that need solving in the enterprise world require sifting through vast amounts of data and finding the best possible solution given a number

The electric vehicle startup’s platform approach helped it raise nearly $3 billion this year. The sheer spectacle of Tesla’s Cybertruck unveiling, from the severe angles to the smashed windows, will g

Cost-effectively replacing fossil fuels solves the world’s CO2 problem and Heliogen is developing the technology to do just that. Heliogen, the clean energy company that is transforming sunlight to cr

StarckGate is happy to work together with Asimov that will be aiming to radically advance humanity's ability to design living systems. They strive to enable biotechnologies with global benefit by

The news: The European Union’s newly released white paper containing guidelines for regulating AI acknowledges the potential for artificial intelligence to “lead to breaches of fundamental rights,”

A 3D printing system that controls the behavior of live bacteria could someday enable medical devices with therapeutic agents built in. A method for printing 3D objects that can control living org

pair of biomarkers of brain function — one that represents listening effort, and another that measures the ability to process rapid changes in frequencies — may help explain why a person with normal h

StarckGate observed this fantastic new tech at the MIT Media Lab, where the Tangible Media Group believes the future of computing is tactile. Unveiled today, the inFORM is MIT's new scrying pool for i

The European Green Deal sets out how to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, boosting the economy, improving people's health and quality of life, caring for nature, and leaving no

An updated analysis from OpenAI shows how dramatically the need for computational resources has increased to reach each new AI breakthrough. In 2018, OpenAI found that the amount of computational powe