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“Gyroscope-on-a-chip” technology could soon enable us to navigate over long distances without GPS.
If the past is any guide, things are going to take off quickly.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s airship startup hits a major milestone.
“You’ll be able to fly twice as fast as a Boeing or Airbus, and it’ll be like the cost of flying business today.”
Shouldn’t “flight mode” be obsolete?
Short-hop regional flights could be running on batteries in a few years.
Most leaders get the psychology of human motivation all wrong — here’s how a presidential encounter with a leaf-sweeper puts it right.
Around the world, biofuels, so-called green energy sources, are waving major red flags.
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For centuries, the only way to travel between the Old and New World was through ships like the RMS Lusitania. Experiences varied wildly depending on your income.
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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.
It’s not about fairness. It’s about using every possible advantage.
A radical redesign of commercial aircraft, called the flying-V plane, could increase fuel efficiency by 20%, greatly reducing emissions.
Ice harvesters once made a living from frozen lakes and ponds, but the work was strenuous and dangerous. Then refrigeration changed everything.
Astro Mechanica’s “turboelectric” jet engines offer a way to transform both commercial flights and space launches.
In this preview from “The Saucerian,” author Gabriel Mckee explains how the combination of fantastical stories and obscure bureaucracy launched the “space age of the imagination.”
Instead of giving the 239 suffering families and the public a true story, Netflix exploited a horrifying tragedy to push conspiracy theories.
Battery-powered urban aircraft are well within the bounds of technological reality.
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.
Americans have gone through three historic junctures like what we’re witnessing today — and they happen on an uncanny 80-year cycle.
Is history decided by discernible laws or does it unfold based on random, unpredictable occurrences?
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When maps meet stamps, you get a love child called “cartophilately.”
Immersive learning creates an interactive environment in which learners have the power to customize their experience.
The 72-meter wingspan is lined with solar panels to give the plane the power it needs to stay airborne for nearly three months.
More than 150 companies are developing flying cars. Here’s why they’re aren’t yet off the ground and darting across city skies.
While the concept stretches back centuries, it has garnered significant attention in recent decades.
Unlike the first Roaring Twenties, these won’t end with a Great Depression.