Innovation

Kim Stanley Robinson is known for his heady and thought-provoking science fiction novels. Aurora turned the concept of a generation ship on its head,…

Truckin’ While sports car enthusiasts are salivating over the Tesla Roadster’s record-shattering performance — 0 to 60 in under two seconds is no…

The laboratory’s artificial lilypad, called aPad, can explore marine environments while keeping in direct contact with a team above sea level, or…

  Berning Man Where others might see 67,000 acres of desolate desert, Jeffrey Berns sees a future utopia powered by blockchain. Earlier this year,…

  Concrete and Crafts Forget scarves and mittens. Soon, we might be able to knit entire buildings. A team from the Swiss university ETH Zurich has…

With character-driven games, facial animation is more important than ever – and modern games need vast amounts of it. The scripts for some of this…

  An Ocean of Data Think water and electricity don’t mix? A new kind of data center is turning that idea on its head. Back in 2016 we reported on…

  Adapt, React, Readapt, Apt Robots have never been more advanced than they are today, but they aren’t terribly adaptable — most are capable of…

  Star Power Get ready to trade in your car’s sunroof for a solar roof. On Wednesday, automakers Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors jointly announced plans…

In some cases, comets and their tails are so big that they’re visible to the naked eye. Yet astronomer Ed Krupp, director of the Griffith Observatory…