Imagine an Internet that enabled its users to slice and dice content into subsets of content relevant to their interests and needs, rather than top-down keyword searches that commercial sear... Read more
DARPA makes ALL of its open-source code freely and easily accessible online The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) — the branch of the U.S. Department of Defense responsible f... Read more
An augmented reality system which projects a heads-up display onto contact lenses Though most of the attention surrounding the race to commercialize connected eyewear has focused on Google G... Read more
The material in disposable batteries may hold the secret to making an inexpensive storage system that can feed the electrical grid Ensconced in a former warehouse in Manhattan’s Harlem... Read more
An international competition to pave the way for a new generation of rescue robots was dominated by a team of Japanese roboticists who were students in the laboratory of a pioneer in the des... Read more
BigDog, Cheetah, WildCat and Atlas have joined Google’s growing robot menagerie. Google confirmed on Friday that it had completed the acquisition of Boston Dynamics, an engineering company t... Read more
Want a glimpse into the future of science? Check out the application areas for the young faculty awards at the Defense Department’s crazy research arm. The Pentagon’s advanced research... Read more
A satellite using MOIRE optics could see approximately 40 percent of the earth’s surface at once The capability of orbital telescopes to see wide swaths of the earth at a time has made them... Read more
If starships are ever built, it will be in the far future. But that does not deter the intrepid band of scientists who are thinking about how to do it SPACE, as Douglas Adams pointed out in... Read more
Meet Atlas, a humanoid robot capable of crossing rough terrain and maintaining its balance on one leg even when hit from the side. And WildCat, the four-legged robot that can gallop untether... Read more
Cars that can park, brake at a sign of danger and navigate in traffic are on their way to dealers’ showrooms, turning science-fiction fantasies of consumer-owned self-driving vehicles... Read more
New program seeks to lower satellite launch costs by developing a reusable hypersonic unmanned vehicle with costs, operation and reliability similar to traditional aircraft Commercial, civil... Read more
A new study has revealed that the stunning iridescent wings of the tropical blue Morpho butterfly could expand the range of innovative technologies. Scientific lessons learnt from these butt... Read more
Boeing could work out a contracting situation in which the Pentagon asks Boeing to run specific operations with its device Unmanned systems are commonplace in the world of aviation. But it... Read more