Technology

No matter how futuristic-looking solar panels (or solar-powered cars) are, you can't get past the fact that they generally don't work...

Star Wars and Mark Zuckerberg fans rejoice: Facebook has patented R2-D2.Admittedly, this robot isn't quite the same as the classic...

It's no secret humanity has a littering problem, nor is it a particularly recent development, but the problem is growing larger as we...

NASA's Deep Space Gateway is finally taking shape--we already have an idea what it will look like, but only now are we starting to...

You all laughed at Armageddon when it portrayed a last-ditch effort to save Earth from destruction by blowing up an asteroid with a...

Crime shows like Numbers, Person of Interest, and even Sherlock portray criminal investigations as a kind of math puzzle: all the...

The Stratolaunch was designed with the intent of "normalizing access to low Earth orbit," but despite having six Boeing 747 engines,...

SpaceX celebrated the 50th launch of its Falcon 9 rocket early yesterday morning by successfully deploying a six-ton Hispasat 30W-6...

Spare a thought for the Tiangong-1, a space station and laboratory that isn't going to be in orbit for very much longer.The base,...

Scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) and Italian-based space company SITAEL reached a major milestone for the future of...

Last month signaled SpaceX's first steps toward creating worldwide broadband internet with a network of satellites, called Starlink....

Thanks to crowdfunding efforts, the world's largest ancestral record has been compiled — a massive family tree that contains...

There's a race going on at the moment in the science world. Various teams around the globe are all competing to be the first to...

In terms of super-powers, the ability to see around corners wouldn't be that life-changing for a mild-mannered human, but it'd be a...

Just so we're clear, Black Mirror is not supposed to be an instructional series that's filled with good ideas for the future.In the...

SpaceX will be holding another launch for their Falcon 9 rocket this coming Tuesday, at 12:33 a.m., a specific and very late/early...

We still haven't heard a firm ETA for the Tesla Semi, the electric semi truck that Elon Musk unveiled last fall. We know it's...

Ball lightning is one of the most obscure, perplexing mysteries in meteorology.The name is fairly self-explanatory: ball lighting...

It sounds like something out of the Twilight Zone, but a futurist's shocking prediction about real life robots using humans as test...

Lots of early arcade games are still widely remembered today — Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Donkey Kong, etc. The same can not be...