Sci-Fi

Years after the advent of decent VR hardware, there are still precious few ways the technology has been employed as anything other than a game or gimmick. One team at...

Here's the deal.  Humanity is on pace to heat Earth by around 3 degrees Celsius, or 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit, above pre-Industrial Revolution temperatures by the century's end.  That level of...

Whoah man, whoever told you not to stare at the sun has obviously not seen this video. The National Solar Observatory (NSO) has published what it's describing as "the highest...

Mostly when we talk about commercial space, and space startups, the focus is relatively close to home – stretching to orbit, and maybe the Moon. But Seattle-based startup Xplore wants...

Scientists from the University of Science and Technology in China have a quantum physics-based answer to the ultimate question: If humans are so smart, why do we all make so...

On Jan. 19, SpaceX performed its final test before putting astronauts in its Crew Dragon capsule by intentionally aborting a Falcon 9 rocket launch shortly after liftoff.  A video of...

It's been a long, cold weekend of hunkering down for people living in eastern Canada. A powerful blizzard dumped a record-shattering amount of snow on the province of Newfoundland across...

SpaceX and NASA exploded a Falcon 9 rocket to test a very important safety feature, Crew Dragon's in-flight escape system. It was the final milestone before SpaceX gets NASA's approval...

After six years as head of DuPont, Ellen Kullman joins the fast-growing 3D printing company Brian Heater @bheater / 2 months Last month, Carbon announced its first new CEO in...

Australia's historic fire season, enhanced by a warming climate, still rages.  Though the profoundly parched bushlands around southeastern Australia received a much-needed deluge in mid-January, the rain was only enough...