By: Bryan Wu   From 2012 to 2015, Russia researched ways of deflecting Earth-bound asteroids using nuclear weapons and came up with a best-case scenario. The Central Scientific Research Institute of Machine Building, an arm of Russia’s state-run Roscosmos space agency, worked …

By: Dan SpaceX believes a fully and rapidly reusable rocket is the pivotal breakthrough needed to substantially reduce the cost of space access.  The majority of the launch cost comes from building the rocket, which flies only once. Compare that to a …

By: Bryan Wu When a soldier is shot on the battlefield, the emergency treatment can seem as brutal as the injury itself. A medic must pack gauze directly into the wound cavity, sometimes as deep as 5 inches into the body, to …

By: Dan There’s a new player in the hunt for dark matter: China’s Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) satellite, which launched on December 17. Ground stations have just received the first data beamed back from DAMPE. With all systems fully operational, the …

By: Bryan Wu Researchers at Harvard University announced recently that they had successfully developed a means of manipulating light at the nanoscale, which could lead to photonic-based (rather than electronic) telecommunications. The team reportedly developed an on-chip metamaterial made from silicon pillars …

By: Dan In a breakthrough that could lead to printable organs and an enhanced understanding of human physiology, researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Labs have 3D-printed  functional blood vessels that look and function like the real thing. 3D bioprinters are similar to conventional …

By: Dan It turns out that the sky is full of space debris, which poses a threat to craft and satellites orbiting Earth. A team of scientists at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China have come up with a way to remedy this. …

By: Bryan Finding technology to help lower pollution has been a long road, but now there is a new process that may help reduce CO2 levels. Now, a team of chemists says they have developed a technology to economically convert atmospheric CO2 …

By: Bryan Almost a year after Elon Musk, chief executive of Tesla Motors (TSLA) and SpaceX, first floated the idea of a superfast mode of transportation, he has finally revealed the details: a solar-powered, city-to-city elevated transit system that could take passengers …

By: Kevin Chen Artificial Intelligence (AI) may seem like the technology of the future, but we already use it in our everyday life. AI is an amazing type of technology. Engineers program machines to make independent decisions based on changing circumstances. A …