Short-hop regional flights could be running on batteries in a few years.

The new agency wants to push the boundaries of science and technology.

Anything, good or bad, about Henry Ford can be contradicted — except his ambition and his work.

The Rubbee X requires almost no setup and is far cheaper than a brand new e-bike.

Anyone up for a crisp, blonde ale?

New stamp-sized ultrasound adhesives produce clear images of heart, lungs, and other internal organs.

More than 150 companies are developing flying cars. Here's why they're aren't yet off the ground and darting across city skies.

Deliveries of the $250k Lightyear 0 will start in November 2022.

Cement production currently accounts for 8% of global carbon emissions.

“I thought, why not direct these high-power beams, instead of into fusion plasma, down into rock and vaporize the hole?”

One home was printed in 28 hours. Now, Alquist 3D is building 200 more.

An analogy explains the greater fool theory: You don’t have to run faster than the bear to get away; you just have to run faster than the other guy.

In the age of distraction, don't we all want to read faster and more efficiently?

“It’s a big resource in the way the human genome is a big resource, in that you can go in and do discovery-based research."

Preventing scurvy is not just a problem in the Antarctic.

Capturing energy from clubbers could help power homes and buildings.

Could we finally detect the elusive Unruh effect?

Meet the power plant of the future.

Here’s how it works.

Every timekeeping device works via a version of a pendulum — even the atomic clocks that are accurate to nanoseconds.

Today, we could use Big Data to radically reform democracy. Tomorrow, we could build nanofabricators and usher in an era of abundance. Is society ready?

Benjamin Franklin's lightning rod saved countless lives, but some religious leaders denounced his invention.

This representation of the Bamum kingdom is a rare example of early 20th-century indigenous African cartography.

An optical telescope with a massive 20-foot (6-meter) mirror has an eye-popping price tag of $11 billion.

On Nov. 13, 1946, a scientist dropped crushed dry ice from a plane into supercooled stratus clouds.

Assume we can make new thylacines, mammoths, diprotodons, or sabre-tooth cats. Great. Now where do we put them?

A new method of extracting rare-earth elements could put us on the track toward a circular economy.

Da Vinci dreamed up a helicopter 400 years before they actually existed. Now, engineers have brought his design to life, but with a twist.

According to surveys, approximately half of artificial intelligence experts believe that general AI will emerge by 2060.

Outfitted with wheels and rotors, the bot can morph from a land drone into a quadcopter in seconds.