Innovation & Future

  Space enthusiasts stirred by NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong’s venture to the moon spent more than $4 million (€3.5 million) in just the first day of a rare…

Truckin’ While sports car enthusiasts are salivating over the Tesla Roadster’s record-shattering performance — 0 to 60 in under two seconds is no joke — Tesla…

The laboratory’s artificial lilypad, called aPad, can explore marine environments while keeping in direct contact with a team above sea level, or other manned…

With character-driven games, facial animation is more important than ever – and modern games need vast amounts of it. The scripts for some of this year’s AAA…

  Berning Man Where others might see 67,000 acres of desolate desert, Jeffrey Berns sees a future utopia powered by blockchain. Earlier this year, Berns’s…

  Concrete and Crafts Forget scarves and mittens. Soon, we might be able to knit entire buildings. A team from the Swiss university ETH Zurich has developed a…

  Adapt, React, Readapt, Apt Robots have never been more advanced than they are today, but they aren’t terribly adaptable — most are capable of completing just…

  Star Power Get ready to trade in your car’s sunroof for a solar roof. On Wednesday, automakers Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors jointly announced plans to…

  An Ocean of Data Think water and electricity don’t mix? A new kind of data center is turning that idea on its head. Back in 2016 we reported on Project…