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,...

Genetic testing and brain scans for new recruits attempt to cut out PTSD-prone soldiers With nearly 1.8 million U.S. soldiers having rotated through Iraq and Afghanistan and another troop escalation expected in coming weeks, researchers are doing...

The useful noble gas may provide a breakthrough way to store hydrogen for fuel Science under pressure can produce marvelous results, such as an entirely new way to store hydrogen fuel. Researchers combined the noble gas xenon with molecular hydrogen...

In what can only be described as a harrowing instance of misdiagnosis, a Belgian man presumed comatose for 23 years after a near-fatal car crash was actually conscious and paralyzed the entire time. Rom Houben, whose real state was discovered three...

Through Educate to Innovate, the White House hopes to return American science and technology learning to prominence Elmo and Big Bird may represent old school learning compared to video games, but both Sesame Street and video game programmers have...

The Blue Brain project leader says that IBM's simulated brain does not even reach an ant's brain level IBM's claim of simulating a cat cortex generated quite a buzz last week, but now the head researcher from the Blue Brain project, a team that is...