NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore (L) and Suni Williams, wearing Boeing spacesuits — which won't do them any good on the SpaceX Dragon they'll be catching a lift home on. Five years before OpenAI rolled ...

One of the most fascinating aircraft in the eVTOL space has moved into flight testing with a new large-scale prototype. Cyclotech's Blackbird airframe becomes the world's first aircraft to fly with ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at the Administration’s proposed budget cuts for research, a company building a space-based quantum network, reversing antibiotic resistance and more.

Chinese scientists have deployed prototype detectors in the South China Sea to explore building a large underwater observatory to detect neutrinos, tiny particles from space. Last month, equipment ...

Solid-state batteries have the potential to make EVs far more affordable and practical, but their commercial development has a record of false promises that would make Tesla's full self-driving blush.

Scientists in the Philippines have created a new housing prototype that turns discarded items into materials for walls, floors, and roofing via radiation technology. The Department of Science and ...

Researchers reporting in ACS Energy Letters have devised a battery powered by vitamin B2 (riboflavin) and glucose. Inspired by how human bodies break down glucose for energy using enzymes, the team ...

This prototype all-perovskite tandem solar cell measures one square centimetre and has a power conversion efficiency of 27.4%, which is higher than is currently possible with traditional ...