Technology

Russian security agents have detained the head of an institute researching hypersonic flight, on suspicion of treason, Tass news agency reports. Alexander Kuranov, an expert on plasma physics, is chief designer at the…

Huawei has launched a new AR (Augmented Reality) application named ‘Unseen’ that allows users to create 3D objects on top of the parallel world. The company has currently started beta testing for this application and is available…

Airbus Helicopters has conducted the full-scale demonstrator flight of its electric helicopter. The chopper is fully electric with a distributed drive system. It took off at 2,310 kg - the highest take-off weight of a full electric VTOL…

Several major digital platforms such as Amazon, Zomato, and Myntra, among others, faced temporary disruptions on July 22 connected to content distribution network Akamai. This is the second major internet outage to hit the world since…

Your dad doesn’t have to be Daedalus for you to know about the dangers of flying too close to the Sun. But the sad tale of Icarus is worth keeping in mind as you read this story. Because as cool as it sounds, taking a flying motorcycle …

(CNN) — A maglev bullet train that can reach speeds of 600 kilometers per hour (373 miles per hour) has made its debut in Qingdao, China. Developed by the state-owned China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation, it's considered the world's…

The production of the fastest train ever built in China, with a top speed of 600km/h (373mph), shows China was becoming a “transport superpower”, according to China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC). Manufacturer…

An old joke about nuclear fusion—that it is 30 years away and always will be—is so well-known that The Economist’s science editor forbids correspondents from repeating it. No one doubts sustained fusion is possible in principle. It…

It’s no secret that pilots on long-haul flights have access to private sleeping quarters that passengers never see, but it turns out there are more surprises hidden away inside a modern airliner, including an entire server room full of rack…

A data center could be built on the Moon before the end of the decade as part of an international effort to develop a permanent base on our nearest neighbor. As part of the wider NASA Artemis Moon program, Italian space agency ASI turned…