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The man behind Tesla and SpaceX proposes dropping individual vehicles into a network of subterranean platforms and tunnels.

MASK, a new brain-computer product for desktop and mobile virtual reality headsets, can predict a smile or a wink milliseconds before you even...

Nitrogen makes up more than three quarters of our air, and researchers in China have successfully harnessed the gas to power a battery.

Flow Machines has been developing an AI program that can compose professional-quality pop music, and will release a full album before the end of the...

In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists will disperse aerosols into the stratosphere in initial tests of a controversial technique for blocking incoming solar...

Vantablack isn't a paint, pigment, or fabric, but a special coating designed to achieve a near total lack of reflectance.

When matter and antimatter come into contact, they annihilate one another. If that were the case, though, nothing should exist.

In a big step forward, physicists achieved the first-ever demonstration of storing and retrieving quantum data from the nucleus of a solitary atom embedded in...

Carbon-based compounds found in seaweed could improve the storage capacity of batteries, helping renewable energy sources like wind and solar become more...

A new study assesses the evolutionary dynamics of physically embodied robots — and it suggests that we're mashing the fast-forward button on the impending robotic...

Get ready for tough, foldable paper-like solar panels covered in "solar glitter."

The batteries are designed to store wind and solar energy for later use. They're non-toxic, non-corrosive and could significantly reduce the cost of production.

The company's new "nightmare-inducing robot," Handle, was caught on film performing rolls, spins, jumps and lifts.

A groundbreaking study overturns two misconceptions about people with completely locked-in syndrome.

Sensors embedded in insects' brains would allow a pilot to direct them to pollinate crops — or track enemy forces.

The annual convention brings together scholars, activists, artists and other experts driving the cyborg movement.

A new method stores solar heat in the form of chemical energy and could mark a pivotal step toward increasing the use of renewable energy in homes and buildings.