Lund and Company Invention, a toy design studio based near Chicago, makes toy rockets that are powered by burning hydrogen, allowing them to travel at various speeds. Now the company is being funded by the US army to adapt that ...

The Terrascout project has set itself the goal of creating a high-speed autonomous vehicle capable of patrolling large areas. The team is using an all-terrain-vehicle in which various systems required for autonomous operation are installed. The final result will be ...

Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability in Germany, along with colleagues at the Technical University of Berlin, are developing a fuel cell that weighs only 30 grams and has an output of 12 watts which could make the idea ...

Researchers at Rice University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have recently been able to use carbon nanotubes to make the “blackest black” — the darkest material ever created, reflecting only 0.045 percent of all light shown on it. Schematic of a ...

Alberto Morpurgo and his team of researchers at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands recently attached a micrometer-thick crystal of an organic polymer to a similarly thin organic crystal of a second polymer creating a thin but strongly conducting ...

Aeronautics manufacturer Magni Gyro has introduced its new M-22 Voyager, an innovative two-seat gyroplane with a listed range of 300 miles and an endurance of over 3 hours in the air. Since its introduction in 2005 the M22 and its ...

Frank Hunte, a postdoctoral associate at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory’s Applied Superconductivity Center has discovered surprising magnetic properties in new superconductors that suggest they may have very powerful applications allowing for dramatically faster computers free of the burden ...

The Israeli firm “Paralight Aviation” has developed a unique aircraft designed to take aerial photographs under remote control. The system, including the craft itself and the controls on the ground, is entirely mobile, light, and according to the developers, exceptionally ...

Recently a group of researchers in Sweden and Japan reported the development of a new type of paper that resists breakage when pulled apart almost as well as that of cast iron. Composed of sub-microscopic particles of cellulose, this material, ...

New personal identification verification (PIV) cards that offer improved protection from identity theft meet the standard accuracy criteria for federal identification cards according to researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). By fall, most federal employees and ...