What could be the next step in airplane evolution is now in the air.
Solar Impulse, a plane whose makers hope will one day be able to fly for up to a day using only the Sun’s energy, took off from Switzerland on a 24-hour test flight.
The plane, which has 12,000 solar cells, is designed [...]
Makers of “the flying car” have cleared a major hurdle and are planning to get their product in the hands of owners by the end of 2011.
Terrafugia, accompany based in Woburn, Mass., has been granted a special weight limit exemption from the Federal Aviation Administration for the Transition, “the flying car.”
The vehicle is a [...]
Louis Armstrong or Ella Fitzgerald or certainly Wynton and Branford Marsalis would certainly have something to say about this: the hardest word to solve in the age-old game of Hangman is JAZZ.
This according to a computer programmer who wrote a program specifically to tell his daughter how she could beat a computerized version of [...]
The rains have eased across Pakistan, but aid is still slow in coming, according to the Pakistani government and international authorities.
Rainstorms were expected to ease for a few days during monsoon season, and relief officials were hopeful that flooding would recede and relief efforts could go forward amid one of the worst disasters in [...]
Get a computer to do it, and it takes only 20 moves. A human problem-solver, however, takes about 40.
It is the solving of the Rubik’s Cube, the multi-colored handheld puzzle-toy that has been entertaining and perplexing millions of people since its invention in 1974.
Now comes word that a team including researchers from more than [...]
The rain keeps falling on Pakistan, as the country reels from some of the worst monsoons in nearly a century. Millions of people have been left homeless, hundreds of thousands of homes have been damaged or destroyed, and the death toll has topped 1,600.
Pakistan, not exactly a rich country, has large swaths of people [...]
Vehicles driving themselves? It could happen, in the not too distant future, especially if more events like this take place: Engineers are off to road-test driverless vehicles on an 8,000-mile journey from Italy to China.
The pair of orange van-like vehicles will technically have no drivers, although technicians will be sitting the driver’s seats and [...]
Six months after a devastating killed hundreds of thousands of people, Haitian residents are still suffering.
One of the few “safe” spots has been a main relocation camp near Corail-Cesselesse, about 15 miles north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, where the bulk of the earthquake damage occurred. In April, U.N. peacekeepers, U.S. military personnel, famous people [...]
The Anne Frank House Museum, in Amsterdam, has announced plans to publish a graphic novel version of the biography of Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl who died in a World War II concentration camp but whose diary is one of the most-read books on the planet.
Frank wrote in her diary in her teen [...]
