Engineers produce a "shape memory alloy" that can pop back into shape more than 10 million times, shattering previous records for this type of material.

Chemists have discovered the key reaction that takes place in sodium-air batteries that could pave the way for development of the so-called holy grail of electrochemical energy storage.

This fabrication method could facilitate the mass production of graphene in large, continuous sheets.

Where do the millions of tonnes of earth go that have been excavated during the cross rail project?

Strong tides, swirling currents, deep water, strong winds and fog — engineers long argued that such conditions meant bridging the Golden Gate was either impossible or prohibitively expensive. But one engineer took a different view. Joseph Strauss was an expert in inland drawbridges, with no experience in large scale projects, yet he submitted plans for a bridge that could be built for a quarter of the generally accepted figure.

When squadron leader Douglas Davie of the RAF bailed out of a crippled jet on 30 July 1943 he had no choice in the matter: the tremendous jet-assisted g forces simply hurled him out of the cockpit as his plane spun out of control. The controls had jammed on his Gloster E28, the testbed for Britain's spanking new jet engines, plunging the plane into a high-speed, spinning dive. But before Sqn Ldr Davie could attempt to bail out at 33,000 feet...

Imagine being able to see three times better than 20/20 vision without wearing glasses or contacts — even at age 100 or more — with the help of bionic lenses implanted in your eyes. Dr. Garth Webb, an optometrist in British Columbia who invented the Ocumetics Bionic Lens, says patients would have perfect vision and that driving glasses, progressive lenses and contact lenses would become a dim memory as the eye-care industry is transformed.

Canadian inventor Catalin Alexandru Duru just set the Guinness World Record for farthest flight ever on a hoverboard.

The space-age invention still takes our imaginations on a wild ride.

Wallpaper that can protect soldiers from explosions is being developed by the US Army.

Four Japanese companies have developed a cogeneration system that recovers hot wastewater with high efficiency from a gas engine in the form of steam,announced the companies on Thursday.

The push to build a new kind of tower has begun.

Engineers have known for some time that if cars could only "talk" to each other, they could avoid a lot of accidents. Vehicles could be driven more safely with information about another car, obstacle or pedestrian around a blind curve, for example. But the hurdles to implementing these systems are numerous: they require a legal framework and the allocation of wireless spectrum to enable vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications.

Why don't we have nuclear fusion power yet? Because it involves taming plasmas at temperatures far hotter than the Sun's core. But the good news is that physicists are slowly but surely figuring out how.

Nijmegen is making room for its river and a new identity.

When we build complex technologies, despite our best efforts and our desire for clean logic, they often end up being far messier than we intend. They often end up kluges: inelegant solutions that work just well enough...

Back in 2007, Google had a simple idea for addressing global warming — we just need to take existing renewable-energy technologies and keep improving them until they were as cheap as fossil fuels. And, voila! Problem solved. That was the logic behind the company's RE-C project, which aimed to produce one gigawatt of renewable electricity for less than the price of coal. The hope was to do this within years, not decades.

What we think of as 3D printing, says Joseph DeSimone, is really just 2D printing over and over ... slowly. Onstage at TED2015, he unveils a bold new technique — inspired, yes, by Terminator 2 — that's 25 to 100 times faster, and creates smooth, strong parts. Could it finally help to fulfill the tremendous promise of 3D printing?

Act like ball bearings

So it’s finished and it’s brilliant, it’s stable it starts easy and the fuel system after a slight redesign (see website) works perfectly. Top speed so far is 60mph but i run out of airstrip so might be more in it.