A Dutch company has demoed the first stealthy wind turbine that uses similar materials to stealth aircraft Wind turbines can be a radar operator's worst nightmare. By scrambling radar waves as blades spin faster or slower, large wind farms are s...

After over 25 years of failed formulas, an HIV vaccine has, for the first time, displayed the ability to confer some immunity against the virus. Deployed in a clinical trial in Thailand, the vaccine managed to prevent infection in a significant minor...

Meet Lrry, a part-equine, part-reptile fire-breathing monster. Don't call Lyle Rowell's giant fire-breathing robot a dog. The artist, who lives in Rimini, Italy, insists that his 1,900-pound creation, Lrry (pronounced "Larry"), is actually a...

For blind people who can't perfect the system of clicks and whistles designed in Spain for human echolocation, researchers at the University of Bristol in England have created a new solution: a helmet that automatically transforms a map of the su...

NASA's Endeavour shuttle launched yesterday evening, after a near-record five delays, on a mission to aid in International Space Station construction for 16 days. However, the craft lost about a dozen pieces of fuel-tank debris during lift off,...

We've come along way since the age when every office's communications nerve center depended on its switchboard operators tucked discreetly inside a windowless room somewhere. Or have we?. I love the juxtaposition of new and old tech here. If you've...

A company aiming to open the first space hotel already has 43 paying customers at $4.4 million a pop Anyone with a cool $4 million and change might consider doing what 43 other people have done, and sign up for an orbital space vacation in 2012 with...

Qian Xuesen has died at 98; he helped found Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory before being deported as a suspected Communist One can only imagine how history might have played out if the United States had not deported a Chinese-born Caltech rocket...

For your bigger stapling jobs Yesterday's mystery tool is officially known as the Monitor model 107 "Patented Wire Stitcher" manufactured by the Latham Machinery Company of Chicago, IL. Bookbinding operations like the one that gave the machine to me...

The massive Genome 10K Project will help biologists watch evolution in action on the genetic level A new "genomic zoo" has launched, with the goal of sequencing the genomes of 10,000 vertebrate species. The project aims to help researchers understand...