The New Zealand–based company is pioneering a new way of reusing rockets that's distinct from what competitors like SpaceX and Blue Origin have done. New Zealand company Rocket Lab has hit a key miles

Scientists of Tomsk Polytechnic University jointly with teams from the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague and Jan Evangelista Purkyne University in Ústí nad Labem have developed a new 2-D

Tired of standing in line? Wait a bit longer, and you may never have to again. Everyone from Amazon to Silicon Valley startups are trying to eliminate lines in retail stores. Amazon has opened 24 of

The first 10 fuel cell electric trucks set to revolutionise the green hydrogen mobility ecosystem in Switzerland have been shipped from South Korea. Hyundai Motor Company on Sunday said the first 10 H

Facebook AI has built and open-sourced BlenderBot, the largest-ever open-domain chatbot. It outperforms others in terms of engagement and also feels more human, according to human evaluators. The

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

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,”

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

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

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

Last month, a navy blue, six-seater aircraft took off at Cranfield Airport in England. Usually, a 15-minute, 20-mile flight wouldn't be noteworthy -- but this was the world's first hydrogen fuel-cell-

Two major breakthroughs in solar cell technology could vastly improve the way energy is harvested from the sun. The two studies, published in Nature Energy and Nature Photonics , will transform t

The hybrid solar energy converter features a solar module with glowing red cells built at Tulane. Credit: Photo courtesy of Matthew Escarra Tulane University researchers are part of a team of scientis

The next major revolution in computer chip technology is now a step closer to reality. Researchers have shown that carbon nanotube transistors can be made rapidly in commercial facilities, with the sa

Maxime Firth's business is complicated to manage, even in good times. His company, Onduline, turns recycled fibres into roofing material, after dousing them with bitumen to make them waterproof, and s

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

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

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

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

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