An unmanned SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Florida on Friday, May 6, to put a communications satellite into orbit, then made a swift return landing on an ocean platform.
It was the second successful landing at sea for entrepreneur Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, which intends to offer cut-rate launch services by re-using its rockets.
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Inside the small manufacturing unit of "Sam's Cake Factory":http://www.samscakefactory.com/, employees are busy baking cakes and producing other gourmet delights.
It is one of the most successful, and most played, video games of all time, a simple concept that has proved to be of near-universal appeal and which has grown beyond the wildest dreams of its inve...
"Netatmo Welcome":https://www.netatmo.com/en-US/product/camera is one of a growing number of smart home security cameras competing for its share of the market. Developed by a French company, it use...
Standing at just over half a metre tall, Xian'er is the product of a collaboration between Longquan temple on the outskirts of Beijing, a technology c...
Sony, HTC and Oculus are making their early bids to be the games giants of the fully- immersive Virtual Reality market, what the boosters promise will be a revolution ushering in a new era in gamin...
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A clean technology company has created a photovoltaic computer which generates clean water, electicity, and connectivity using solar power and claims it will have a transformative effect on the dev...
Imagining tomorrow's sustainable, self-sufficient city: that is the goal of Fab City, a global project which started in Barcelona two years ago and is currently being tested "in Amsterdam":http://f...
Europe’s largest floating solar farm is ready to switch on. Built on a reservoir, (the Queen Elizabeth II), near Heathrow airport in Britain, the solar array is to supply energy to a water treatmen...
A Dutch startup has teamed up with a group of engineering students to develop a prototype for "a new electric bike that charges itself using solar cells on its front wheel":http://www.nltimes.nl/20...
From the Sun, the Moon and flames, to ultra-modern semiconductors, human history is inherently bound to light. In this special edition of Futuris, we meet scientists and engineers who are making ou...
A solar-powered plane attempting a round-the-world flight has cut short the seventh leg of its journey, landing in Nagoya, western Japan, due to bad weather. Here you can listen to Bertrand Piccard...
Bertrand Piccard, the Solar Impulse 2 pilot, on news conference some days before the flight from Nanjing to Hawaii. It's going to be a next stage of Solar Impulse 2's trip around the world, without...
Dams are designed and built to withstand any natural disaster, but since Fukushima Europe's researchers have been looking more closely into the risks for our vital installations.
Polish scientists, from the "Moratex Institute of Security Technology":http://www.moratex.eu/en/ are developing a liquid body armour that hardens on impact, protecting the body from a wide range of...
Every year all over Europe ambulances come to the aid of millions of people. "A study suggests almost half of the cases could be treated on the spot":http://www.smartambulanceproject.eu/wp-content...
"If you have the right technology, the ambulance, if you have diagnostic, if you have the right therapies, 50 percent of patients stay home", told us Andrew Newton, consultant paramedic.
Suddenly, the drones are everywhere: from hi-tech toys to flying cameras to fearsome weapons striking from the skies, unmanned planes and helicopters are changing the world we live in. Ricardo Mend...
The "Aero 2016 show":http://www.aero-expo.com/aero-en/ in the German city of Friedrichshafen on the shores of Lake Constance was a success according to organisers.
Millions of Hindu pilgrims visit the Indian city of Nashik for the "Kumbh Mela":http://www.kumbhamela.net/ardh-kumbh-mela-2007.html festival. Held once every twelve years the festival poses a major...
Electric vehicles are a reality, and scientists are now looking ahead. They are exploring new frontiers to make them safer, more reliable, more autonomous and more affordable.
By April 2018 all new car models sold in the EU will have to be "equipped with an eCall":https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/ecall-all-new-cars-april-2018 - an automatic emergency c...
Tesla Motors gave a sneak preview Thursday (March 31) of its Model 3 sedan, saying more than 130,000 people had ordered the car, even though it is more than a year away from production.
Connected cars are the future of driving: that was one of the main messages of the annual smartphone extravaganza which is the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona.
With a bit of knowledge in mechanics and a lot of fantasy, a Brazilian civil servant has created, in his garage in São Paulo, what he calls the "Moto Power H2O".
Major carmakers presented their new models at the Detroit auto show on Monday, January 11, emphasizing a move towards software integrated, autonomous and electric automobiles.
Driverless cars are all the rage at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which features plenty of smart, driverless, electric and energy-efficient vehicles.
On the streets near a research institute in Dresden, Germany, a Hungarian physicist drives an electric car with a "pioneering vision":https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/blog/new-solutions-enhan...
An elixir of eternal youth may be the stuff of legend and beyond the reach of humans, but it is not such a fantasy in the world of art restoration, thanks to pioneering work being carried out in a ...
This year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry is awarded a German and two American scientists for pioneering nanoscale microscopy. A German and two American scientists won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Chemistr...
Is an elixir of youth possible? Yes! But... so far not for people. Piero Baglioni, a physical chemist from the University of Florence, explains how nanotechnology turns back time for precious objec...