Watch this Miniature Falcon 9 rocket nail its barge landing
YouTube user and RC hobbyist ajw61185 built a Falcon 9 model rocket that not only looks impressive; it also is outstanding at its landings.
Tour de France officials will use thermal imaging to catch ‘bike dopers’
Thermal imaging cameras may seem out of place at the Tour de France, but their presence may prevent an egregious form of cheating known as bike doping.
NASA buys $750K gadget to recycle 3D-printed plastic on the space station
NASA is paying big bucks to experiment with plastics recycling on the International Space Station, paying $750K for a combo 3D printer and recycler machine.
NASA’s long-armed robot will refuel and repair satellites in space
NASA wants to revolutionize how the space industry manages orbiting spacecraft with its new Restore-L robot designed to refuel satellites in space.
3D printing saves life of baby born with brain outside his skull
A newborn with rare birth defect encephalocele beat all odds by surviving this often fatal disease thanks to 3D-printing technology.
This brilliant 10-year-old kid built a fully functional 3D printer out of Legos and K’nex
One of the latest innovations in the 3D printing world comes from a preteen who created a 3D printer using a 3D -rinting pen and a Lego Mindstorms EV3.
Weaponized drone swarms will meet their match with this 60-kilowatt laser
To combat the potential security threat from drone swarms, Lockheed Martin is working on a 60-kilowatt laser that'll blow these UAVs out of the sky.
Space X: Crash into drone ship ‘accordions’ engines of Falcon 9 rocket
In a follow-up on a recent crash, Elon Musk of SpaceX confirmed that damage to the Falcon 9 rocket from a recent crash was extensive.
Researchers develop electronic skin material that can be easily commercialized
An international research team developed a breakthrough process that produces an electronic skin in just a few minutes using a commercially viable process.
Climate scientists plan to map coral reefs from the sky
NASA is starting a three-year study to examine the effects of environmental changes on coral reef ecosystems using data from underwater and from the sky.
SkinGun helps burn victims quickly regrow skin by spraying them with their own stem cells
RenovaCare is in the organ regeneration business and has a skin stem-cell spray gun that can heal a burn or chronic wound in just a few days.
Basketball-loving kid gets a 3D printed hand designed specifically for shooting hoops
Young amputee Logan turned to UCLA's 3D-printing club and AIO Robotics for help when he wanted to play basketball and needed a hoop-shooting hand.
While awaiting a transplant, this guy lived with an artificial ‘heart in a backpack’ for 555 days
25-year-old Scott Larkin had his heart removed while awaiting transplant and was sustained using a backpack artificial heart that let him play basketball.
The US Army’s new earbuds give soldiers tunable hearing, protection from loud noises
TCAPS, Tactical Communication, and Protective System, is a smart earbud designed by the Army to protect the hearing of its soldiers.
Animation captures the massive scale of what will be the world’s largest telescope
How big will the world's biggest telescope be when completed? A newly released animation shows the telescope's massive scale.
Next-generation ‘Big Wing’ Predator drone completes 37-hour test flight
The next generation Predator B "Big Wing" drone lives up to its name, successfully completing a challenging 37-hour long-endurance test flight.
Future fighter pilot training may include brain surgery
Researchers from the University of Melbourne are developing a minimally invasive brain-machine interface that DARPA hopes to use in fighter jets.
Here are 10 astounding pictures of the world's longest railway tunnel
Dubbed the construction project of the century, the 35-mile Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland opened June 1 after 17 years of preparation.
Classic Pong game gets mechanical makeover
The classic game of Pong has been brought to life again thanks to the creative genius of Daniel Perdomo, who created a coffee-table version of the game.
Planetary Resources plans to launch Earth-observing satellites as a precursor to asteroid mining ops
Planetary Resources has big plans for the future, but those plans now include Earth-observing satellites and not the entertaining idea of space selfies.
NASA is using HoloLens to build its next Mars rover in mixed reality
Microsoft's HoloLens VR headset is being put to work by NASA, which is using the technology to help design the future Mars 2020 Rover.
Filmmakers create epic Star Wars dogfight with FPV drones and 3D printed cockpits
The filmmakers at Corridor Digital have outdone themselves in their latest film creating an epic Star Wars dogfight with FPV drones and 3D-printed cockpits.
Laser scan analysis reveals that trees ‘sleep’ at night, perk up to catch sunlight during day
The next time you find yourself in a forest at night, walk quietly as the trees around you may be sleeping, claims a new research study from Hungary.
Miracle medical moment as legally blind man sees with bionic eye
After 40 years of limited vision, John Jameson now can see again thanks to a breakthrough surgery that placed a small telescope in his eye.
MIT researchers create ‘Cilllia’ — a sensor-filled 3D-printed hair
The Tangible Media Group at MIT's Media Lab bucked the trend that bigger is better, producing a 3D-printed, sensor-filled micro-pillar hair called Cilllia.
Eat your heart out, Peter Parker: Scientists have created 'liquid wire' that behaves like a spider's web
Researchers uncover the secrets of how a spider web flexes and have used this knowledge to build a new type of biomaterial called liquid wire.
Disabling a drone is easier than you think
The latest tutorial from Make magazine shows you how to build a device that'll disable a drone in an instant.
Doctors may soon rebuild patients’ knees using new 3D-printed bioglass
A 3D-printed bioglass cartilage may be the next big thing in the word of biomaterials research, thanks to a team from the Imperial College London.
3D motion technology lets wheelchair users move with the wink of an eye
Brazilian scientists have developed a wheelchair capable of moving with a wink, blink, or nod.
MIT researcher’s artificial skin will make you look 10 years younger
A team of MIT scientists have developed an artificial skin that'll shave years off your life by reducing wrinkles and removing the bags under your eyes.
Autonomous surgical robots are practicing on pigs
Instead of a physician, your next surgeon may be a STAR, a Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot, designed to operate on you with minimal supervision.
The pipe dream is over: FDA regulates vaping
The FDA announced that it would begin regulating all tobacco-related products including cigars, pipe tobacco, hookah tobacco, and even e-cigarettes.