When the USS Cole was disabled by an Al-Qaeda attack in 2000, the US Navy faced a serious dilemma: How do you sail a 500-foot warship from Yemen to Mississippi when it's got a 40-foot wide gash in its hull? You hire the world's biggest semi-submersible ship to piggy-back it home, that's how. Read More >
Featured comment by Tacos:
"Oh, just like that episode on Top Gear where they played darts with cars.
"Now just imagine how far that thing could fling a t-shirt at a minor lea..." More »
Until just a few years ago, manned spaceflight was the exclusive sandbox of not just nations, but of the world's select superpowers—the countries with enough disposable income to say, "F-ck it. Let's go to the Moon." Those days are over, sadly, slowly smothered by shrinking budgets and realigning priorities. Read More >
Featured comment by mrennett:
"Fair enough. This was their last plan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(spacecraft) I just hope it actually comes about." More »
DARPA may be the Big Dog of robotic cargo transport for now, but that doesn't mean it's the only game in town. A new design from the Italian Institute of Technology may look like the Army's pack-bot but it runs like a Ferarri—or, at least, a skittering, mechanical Ibex. Read More >
Featured comment by TankBoyBen:
"I didn't see it running like a Ferrari and saw no real difference in performance from the DARPA dog.
however its still damn impressive" More »
As the Royal Air Force's fleet of heavy transport and tanker jets come to the end of their operational service lives, the RAF is faced with replacing a lot of planes. Luckily, the new Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport is a union jack of all trades. Read More >
Featured comment by John Cameron:
"i know the tornado and euro were not the best, but they served their purpose, and it would have been cheaper to keep them than what we are doing.
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Potable water is both a finite and renewable resource. While it is infinitely recyclable, the Earth's stores of fresh water at any point are limited. So when humanity's booming populations drain these reserves faster than they can be replenished, shit gets real. And this is how we fix it. Read More >
Featured comment by kwiiiq:
"That's what I thought. But at least the potential is there. That said, we're going to have to start being incredibly creative when it comes to solving..." More »
Sure, space-based X-Ray telescopes have been in service since the Einstein Observatory launched back way back in 1978. But the NuSTAR Project is different: It promises to illuminate the heavens above as never before. Read More >
Those surface-to-air missile batteries that are being installed around Olympic Stadium must have been invented by Stark Industries. Each high-speed missile houses a trio of smaller projectiles—like a troika doll of fiery, explosive death. Read More >
After decades of strife, occupation, and conflict, Afghanistan has been left pockmarked with an estimated ten million anti-personnel landmines in its soils. It's a bad situation. There are mines like the the Soviet PFM-1 "butterfly mine"— especially popular with small children, who mistake it for a toy. But an anti-mine machine from Komatsu is working across the country to help Afghanis literally save life and limb. Read More >
There are certain areas of the International Space Station that most astronauts would rather not visit—like the exterior. But sometimes, somebody has to clamber around out there, looking for hull cracks. That's when the ISS calls on Russia's SAR-400 telepresence assist-droid. Read More >
Featured comment by ilae4e:
""In fact, the SAR-400 could be best described as either a really advanced puppet."
i dont quite think this was finished off... either... wheres th..." More »
Solar panels are finicky devices—they have to be specially mounted, angled, and presented with the precisely correct environmental conditions to function at capacity. The complexities make it hard for the technology to gain mainstream appeal. A German startup hopes to change all that with flexible solar cells built using OLED production techniques Read More >
Watch this monster mowing and cleaning machine in action. I want to drive it and go wild with it. Clean every filthy thing in sight in London, from traffic signals, building and parks to hipsters, hipsters and hipsters. Everything. Read More >
Featured comment by Lester__Bangs:
"EDIT: After seeing the whole video, they might not be so technologically advanced, but they do the same job." More »
Using traditional lower leg and foot prosthetics is like walking in sand. Since the user can't push off with that foot, there's no muscle for power or an Achilles tendon to pull against. The BiOM prosthetic, however, supplements user effort with robot power. Read More >
After sinking, the RMS Titanic lay undisturbed beneath 12,000 feet of freezing North Atlantic water for years, but in 1985 its watery tomb was finally breached by another marquee vessel—the crown prince of HOVs. Read More >
The universe's most distant and ancient galaxies are about to be brought into focus. At the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, a multi-university team of researchers has just installed a very sophisticated infrared sensor in the Keck I telescope. Read More >
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