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Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s airship startup hits a major milestone.
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Short-hop regional flights could be running on batteries in a few years.
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The airships have a range of 4,000 nautical miles, can fly for five days, and can cruise as high as 20,000 feet at 80 mph. They take to the skies over Spain in 2026.
A radical redesign of commercial aircraft, called the flying-V plane, could increase fuel efficiency by 20%, greatly reducing emissions.
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Ice harvesters once made a living from frozen lakes and ponds, but the work was strenuous and dangerous. Then refrigeration changed everything.
Battery-powered urban aircraft are well within the bounds of technological reality.
Instead of giving the 239 suffering families and the public a true story, Netflix exploited a horrifying tragedy to push conspiracy theories.
Astro Mechanica’s “turboelectric” jet engines offer a way to transform both commercial flights and space launches.
In 1903, a Vermont doctor bet $50 that he could cross America by car. It took him 63 days, $8,000, and 600 gallons of gas.
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Is history decided by discernible laws or does it unfold based on random, unpredictable occurrences?
The 72-meter wingspan is lined with solar panels to give the plane the power it needs to stay airborne for nearly three months.
Immersive learning creates an interactive environment in which learners have the power to customize their experience.
When maps meet stamps, you get a love child called “cartophilately.”
More than 150 companies are developing flying cars. Here’s why they’re aren’t yet off the ground and darting across city skies.
Unlike the first Roaring Twenties, these won’t end with a Great Depression.
Guided by ultrasound waves, swarms of microrobots could soon be used to deliver medicine to targeted sites in the body.
Forty Starlink satellites were destroyed earlier this year in a geomagnetic storm.
Otto Aviation says the hourly cost of flying the new Celera 500L is about six times cheaper than conventional aircraft.
Why does Seattle continue to be a place that nurtures the development of breakthrough technologies but not Minneapolis, Memphis, or Minsk?
While the concept stretches back centuries, it has garnered significant attention in recent decades.
Virtual tourism has thus far been a futuristic dream, but a world shaped by Covid-19 may be ready to accept it.