Technology & Innovation

A top-secret government airline that flies to locations like Area 51 is put in a spotlight by a recent ad and an unexpected connection to the Las Vegas shooting. 

What would it be like to experience the 4th dimension?

Bell Helicopter has just premiered its electric, self-piloting air taxi design at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. 

Twitter clarifies whether it would block any world leaders from its platform.

SpaceX unveils its most powerful rocket.

Proposers’ strategies must be successful in one of three different environments.

Scientists find that a drug meant for another illness may significantly help Alzheimer’s patients.

Scientists come up with an explanation for the strange dimming of Tabby’s star and it doesn’t involve aliens.

Illumination from nanobionic plants might one day replace some electrical lighting.

Experts assess the strengths and weaknesses of the North Korean military in a potential conflict. 

Genetic editing in people gathers steam.

Researchers used the same method that would be employed to detect life on Mars.    

The social media company’s new policies only spotlight its arbitrary decision-making process.

Aging lithium-ion batteries have Apple, and other phone makers, in a corner.

At the very least such fake news could further divide us. At worst, a violent incident occurs, perhaps even on a large-scale.

A massive solar project has just been completed, and its specs are impressive.

A once-impossible new technique creates fusion energy with powerful lasers and without radioactive fuel.

All the answers may lie at the center of a “regular” black hole.

Life never ceases to surprise, even when faced with the unforgiving environment of space.

Elon Musk expresses some support for President Trump’s new space plans.

A 1947 U.N. resolution called for Jerusalem to be an international city.

This discovery may also help us develop novel drugs for Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, and ADHD.

Another scintillating installment of Comment of the Week is here. Did you make the cut? 

This could change everything we know about gravity and universal expansion.

A report on the effects of global automation highlights the dramatic changes over the next 13 years.

Understanding this evaluation process may help us create more sophisticated A.I.

Lab-grown, cultured meats, dairy, and leather will be hitting shelves soon. Paul Shapiro reports on the coming trend in his new book, Clean Meat.

Researchers discover the cause of mystery earthquakes in Texas.  

It’s not personal awareness but a different mechanism which lends an evolutionary advantage, allowing our species to thrive.

NYU scientists teach an artificial intelligence program to win at “Battleship” by asking questions.