Dyson, the one-time vacuum company that continues to expand its range of electronics, is looking to take on bad hair days across the globe. Founder James Dyson hopes their latest invention, the Supersonic hair dryer, will revolutionize your routine. Anthony Mason reports.

Learn about some materials that seem like they should belong in science fiction, but actually exist today!

Balanced on swaying poles, scaffolders in Hong Kong cling to Tinkertoy-like constructions of bamboo sticks. This is how the city's tallest skyscrapers are built.

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Novelist Jon Wallace considers the science fiction implications of engineering stories that have caught his eye.

Linus Torvalds transformed technology twice -- first with the Linux kernel, which helps power the Internet, and again with Git, the source code management system used by developers worldwide. In a rare interview with TED Curator Chris Anderson, Torvalds discusses with remarkable openness the personality traits that prompted his unique philosophy of work, engineering and life. (Feb.)

The physics behind the perfect size of a jet engine.

Tubes have carried cats, mail, and people for a really long time. Vox's Phil Edwards leads the tour...

Soft electronics and smart control mechanisms help these robots get a better grip on a complex world

Up for a hands-on game challenge? Navigate a flying quadcopter during stormy Alaska weather, catch the perfect aerial shot of rare wildlife, and uncover trails through rough sea ice, all in the new mobile app game, Arctic UAVs

As impressive as GPS and other radio signal-based positioning technologies are, they pretty much all crap out once the device-to-be-localised is inside. This is just a fundamental property of radio waves—put something solid enough, such as most building materials, in front of them and they will attenuate.

Well this is the best way to not forget to tighten the gas pipe up on your new jet engine. Just before my first test fire i,d been messing with the oil pipes and had loosened the gas pipe so could move engine around easier then forgot and during to test

What makes this new building in Colorado so impressive: It’s located at high elevation in a location that gets about 90 inches of snow per year—yet, amazingly, it uses no central heating at all.

Some of these featured projects are niche, some are simple novelties, and some have practical uses in the real world. The single unifying concept here is that someone had an idea, created something awesome, and then shared it with everyone.

It’s just a pushable basket you use to store groceries and skate cart ride around the aisles with, so why do grocery carts cost $100 a cart?

Redundancy is key to travel "farther away than any human spacecraft has ever been.”

The whirs and ticks of a restored mechanical bird are oddly soothing, and very accurate.

Sometimes all it takes is a little child-like wonder to remind you just how freaking cool magnetic fields are. We all use magnets daily in our cars and computers, but when was the last time you stopped to consider the awesome tricks they can...

The fact that algorithms can contain latent biases is becoming clearer and clearer. And some people saw this coming. By Rose Eveleth.

There are nine ghost stations in the NYC Subway system.