Science Vs Fiction

Architect Sean Lally sees building materials beyond just wood, concrete, and glass.

A Japanese engineering company, Shimizu Corporation, is making plans for a real-life Atlantis, an eco-friendly underwater city that could house 5,000 people

The world's most advanced flying car, AeroMobil 3.0, was unveiled today at Pioneers Festival in Vienna

A wearable quadcopter.

High-altitude wind contains enough energy to power the planet. A Boston start-up wants to be the first to bring it down to Earth. 

Third Interstellar trailer.

For future astronauts, the process of suiting up may go something like this: Instead of climbing into a conventional, bulky, gas-pressurized suit, an astronaut may don a lightweight, stretchy garment, lined with tiny, musclelike coils. She would then plug in to a spacecraft's power supply, triggering ...

The military has always looked toward new technologies to keep its soldiers fed while in the field. Canned food, for instance, was first created to provide sustenance for Napoleon's troops. Now the U.S. Army is investigating 3D printers as a way to produce more nutritious, and hopefully tastier, military rations.

In the Namib desert where rain is rare but fog common, a beetle survives by condensing water on its back until drops roll down into the insect's mouth. Now this principle has been magnified onto a grand scale, providing a possible solution to the desperate lack of water that plagues the populations of many of the world's dry regions.  

SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is a method of trying to game search engines in order to raise the impact of your website or post. One of the common ways has traditionally been through the use of keywords. In astronomy a similar method is used to raise the impact of new research. One of the most effective methods is to use the keywords Exoplanet, Earth, and Habitable. If you can add a nice concept sketch of a watery landscape with double suns, that’s good too.

Back in 1777, German physicist Professor Georg Lichtenberg made a curious discovery; when dust in the air settled on electrically charged plates, beautiful tree-like “dust figures” formed. Lichtenberg believed that these figures showed the motion of the electric field. The figures, which were later named Lichtenberg figures, sparked a great amount of interest in scientists and philosophers because they believed they demonstrated the true nature of the electric field.