“Fast & Furious 9,” set for a 2021 release, is the 10th installment in a franchise known for pushing the boundaries of car chases. But there has been a lot of technological innovation leading up to this point that originated in classic films like “The...
There are some things about death that remain a mystery, like what happens to your consciousness? Is there anything in the afterlife? These questions may never get answered until each of us experiences dying. But we do have some answers to what happens to your body...
Black soldier fly maggots, often used for pet food and as fertiliser, have become even more lucrative for an insect farm in Singapore. The innovative facility raises them to extract high-quality biomaterials from fly larvae for use in pharmaceuticals and electronics....
Just how fast could an F1 car go if you really let it loose, strap on just enough downforce to not take off and use a track that is 11 miles long. Honda actually tried this back in 2006, but I was wondering – would the current F1 rocket ships be able to go even...
In North Carolina, a rural electric cooperative is reliving its New Deal history, bringing technologies like fast Internet and clean, low-carbon heating to communities that some have abandoned....
Tipping is a quintessential American custom. In the U.S. consumers tip for services ranging from baggage handlers at the airport to housekeepers at hotels. But according to some analysts, tipping has created an environment where restaurant servers are subjected to...
Nitinol, a “memory” metal that can remember its original shape when heated, is an industrial gem that will play a key role in NASA’s next mission to...
The renowned physicist Freeman Dyson suggested that a hypothetical detector sensitive enough to observe a single graviton would be so massive that the detector itself would collapse into a black hole. But what if we’re going about this the wrong way? What if instead...
