China just sent a clear signal about where it believes air travel is headed next. A Shanghai-based aviation company called AutoFlight has unveiled Matrix, now recognized as the world's largest flying ...

A future with flying cars no longer lives just in concept videos. It now lives in Palo Alto, and if you have about $200,000 plus patience, you can reserve one today. The company behind that future ...

Japan is building a train that can hit 503 km/h and cut Tokyo to Osaka down to just 67 minutes. The secret isn’t a bigger engine - it’s superconducting magnets chilled to extreme temperatures so the ...

Few would deny that German weaponry was often decades ahead of the Allies... producing jet fighters, cruise missiles, super heavy tanks and even long-range ballistic missiles; it being the sheer ...

"Aria" is an artificial intelligence-powered avatar created by Soul Machines. Soul Machines, the Auckland-founded maker of AI-powered virtual people for customer services that raised more than US$135 ...

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To our eyes, they often are a blur. But high-speed cameras show us what makes these birds perfect flying machines. A captive Anna’s hummingbird feeds while hovering before an optical illusion in a ...

There are times in the life of a high-flyer when you’ll need to get on a light aircraft. It’s about getting where you need to go – a far-flung lodge, a remote site visit – as swiftly as possibly. One ...

SpaceX and NASA launched a new crew to the International Space Station on Friday, around one month after a previous crew had to be brought home early. SpaceX Crew-12 mission lifts off from Cape ...