VIRTUAL ROCKETS AND DRONES
A mixed-reality mobile game that lets players shoot real drones out of the air is on show at the Mobile World Congress trade show in...
CHANGING THE SKYSCRAPER RACE
As the world's tallest buildings reach toward the 3000 ft. mark and beyond, the pursuit of height might give way to practicality. From...
WIND BREAKTHROUGHS
The sight of propeller-like rotating blades positioned high up the pole of a tall horizontal-axis wind turbine (HAWT) may be familiar to...
DRILLING INTO A DINOSAUR KILLER
Some 66 million years ago, an asteroid — or perhaps a comet — hit Earth. It struck off the coast of what is now the Yucatán Peninsula of...
ANTARCTIC SEA ICE SHRINKS TO RECORD LOW
Sea ice around Antarctica shrunk to its lowest monthly extent on record in January, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...