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Researchers Want A Robotic Space Cleaner To Digest Debris And Turn It Into Fuel

Now in an Arxiv paper reported on by the MIT Technology Review, researchers from China have proposed a design for a space engine that can gobble up space jun...

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This Space Mission Could Upend Our Basic Notions of Newtonian Gravity

Sir Isaac Newton probably didn't get conked on the head by a falling apple, but by many, if not most accounts, there was an apple and it did fall in his presence. Having wi...

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Google Just Turned Android Smartphones Into Amateur VR Cameras

Google today released a new Android app called Cardboard Camera that lets users take VR photos with their smartphone, which are then viewable in the company&rsquo...

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How High Speed Communications Networks Are Making Remote Surgery Realistic

Imagine a future where surgeons no longer have to enter war zones to treat soldiers injured on the battlefield. Instead, they would just rig themselves up to a?surgical rob...

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The Secret To Conquering Space Without It Killing Us First May Lie In Our Bones

Space travel is notoriously hard on the human body. For decades, astronauts have returned to Earth anemic, their red blood cell count depleted, leaving them vulnerable to i...

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Stanford Physicists Set A New Record For Quantum Entangling Distant Electrons

Computer hardware is almost always realized via electrons, e.g. good old fashioned electricity. Apply some voltage to a conductive material and now we're scooting around el...

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Amazon Reveals Its New Delivery Drone

In the advertisement, the former Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson breaks down the drone specs for the viewer, calling the prototype ?a miracle of modern technology.? While cal...

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India Needs To Invest $ 140 Billion Annually To Transform Energy Sector

India’s contribution to the rising global energy demand is likely to be more than any other country in the next 25 years, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said&n...

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Space Origami Could Pack Big Structures Into Tiny Satellites

The founder and CEO of?Oxford Space Systems?(OSS), a venture capital-backed tech company that is designing hardware for satellites, is convinced that new flexible materials...

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Now That We Can Edit Cancer's Genes, We Can Make Better Drugs

The ability to edit the human genome, a sci-fi procedure made possible by a new technique called CRISPR/Cas-9, has taken the field of genetic research by storm. In the...

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