The silent, lightweight aircraft doesn’t depend on fossil fuels or batteries Since the first airplane took flight over 100 years ago, virtually every aircraft in the sky has flown with the h... Read more
Program aims to develop systems that deliver the goods, then poof out of existence It sounds like an engineering fantasy, or maybe an episode from Mission Impossible: A flock of small, singl... Read more
Engineers at Lancaster University are working on powering future ‘giant leaps’ for mankind. They are major partners of a consortium working on a new £1 million project to maximise ‘energy ha... Read more
The internet has become a critical means of communication during humanitarian crises and a crucial everyday tool for people around the world. Now, a Portuguese company wants to make sure eve... Read more
Imagine showing up at the airport to catch your flight, looking at your plane, and noticing that instead of windows, the cockpit is now a smooth cone of aluminum. It may seem like the worst... Read more
A new generation of neural network models — called spiking neural networks For every thought or behavior, the brain erupts in a riot of activity, as thousands of cells communicate via electr... Read more
A new teeny-tiny robot flies through the air like a jellyfish swims. The jellyfish flier is a strange sight — it looks a little bit like a Chinese lantern that’s developed a hankering... Read more
Many aircraft passengers are familiar with the phenomenon; the sky is clear and blue, the aircraft is cruising calmly, but suddenly everything is disrupted by temporary turbulence. Passenger... Read more
On most aircraft ice-detection systems, the sensors can’t be located right on the aerofoil surfaces that most need to be kept ice-free – the addition of a protruding sensor would ruin their... Read more
The Clip-Air project envisions an airplane consisting of a single flying wing onto which capsules carrying passengers or freight can be attached. More than a new type of flying device, its i... Read more
Kamran Mohseni envisions a day when the unmanned vehicles in his laboratory at the University of Florida will swarm over, under and through hurricanes to help predict the strength and path o... Read more
The robot apocalypse came a step closer as Northrop Grumman and the US Navy carried out a successful carrier-style landing of the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator. The te... Read more
The unmanned and remote piloted aerial vehicles market is seen as the natural first step for the technology Attempts to combine the vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capabilities of a hel... Read more
European helicopter maker AgustaWestland has unveiled the world’s first electric tilt-rotor aircraft and says it has already made several flights. Like the more famous Bell Boeing V-22 Ospre... Read more
Boeing’s liquid hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye unmanned aircraft system has completed taxi testing at Edwards Air Force Base in California as it progresses toward its second flight. Duri... Read more
