Flike, the electric tricopter by a Hungarian team of engineers, took off the ground and marked its first manned flight, a year after the introduction of the concept on a piece of paper.
Thinking of transportation of the future, but...
A new and contentious bill, which is the latest version of the America COMPETES Act, has recently passed the US Congress, with funding to be diverted from Earth science research research and more towards planetary sciences.
Known as COMPETES (While NASA's...
PoWiFi is a system that allows simultaneous wireless transfer of power and data to electronic devices using existing WiFi infrastructure, giving a glimpse of hope that batteries might soon be made redundant.
Different technologies that allow wireless charging have been...
In an unprecedented move six leading European oil companies, including BP and Shell have released a letter calling on the world to implement a price on carbon emissions.
In a three page document addressed to the United Nations climate chief the oil companies...
Engineers from University of Stanford developed a synthetic form of activated carbon, which can boost Li-S energy storage performance.
Everyone is talking about developments in the field of energy storage, but it is only occasionally that we hear something about...
Following on from the first instalment of turning one person's waste into another person's treasure, we examine a new range of products that are capable of practically being converted into new products, in addition to ways we can improve...
As a teenager, Boyan Slat read about the giant plastic islands floating in the worlds oceans. Six years later his foundation is about to launch the longest floating structure in the world, designed to rid the world's oceans of plastic pollutants.
Touted to...
A super fast floating train, developed by the Energy Research Institute in the Netherlands, can store as much as 10% of the total energy demand of the entire Dutch population in the form of kinetic energy.
There is only one...
13-year-old Fatima Al Kaabi of UAE has invented a solar bag that can charge electronic gadgets, supply power to lights and a fan for backpackers in remote locations.
Fatima, who constantly works on innovative ideas, is a serial inventor who...
British bus, running on cow poop, reached the incredible speed of almost 77 m/h (123.6km/h) during tests, bypassing its oil counterparts.
The incredible green vehicle belongs to the company Reading Buses, and has the iconic name "Bus Hound", which comes from...
