Design engineering is running headfirst into a materials bottleneck. Industries such as automotive, aerospace, electronics, and semiconductors now depend on increasingly complex materials. Yet ...

How Elon Musk’s Sci-Fi Hyperloop Failed Before his misadventures in government efficiency, Musk promised to revolutionize commuting with a subway that would speed passengers between DC and Baltimore ...

In the echoing expanse of a Sunnyvale food bank, Silicon Valley leaders scrambled across a warehouse floor, making a dull cacophony as they ran to different tables where they begged for work, ...

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The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer—has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest ...

Arguably the main player in the crowded hyperloop space, Hyperloop One — which had previously seen investment from the Virgin Group founded by Richard Branson — couldn’t balance the books. Yet nearly ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The Boring Company’s CEO has hopes of create a hyperloop connecting the capital to Knoxville. In a Monday social media Q&A session, TBC President Steve Davis said travelers ...

Swisspod's Aerys 1 hyperloop capsule reached a record speed of 65 miles per hour at its PuebloPlex test track. The company's long-term goal is to transport passengers at hundreds of miles per hour, ...

Creating a virtual brain may sound like a science-fiction nightmare, but for neuroscientists in Japan and at Seattle’s Allen Institute, it’s a big step toward a long-held dream. They say their ...

Researchers combined deep learning with high-resolution physics to create the first Milky Way model that tracks over 100 billion stars individually. Their AI learned how gas behaves after supernovae, ...