Tour Seattle’s insane subterranean highway by drone, as it’s being built
The Washington State Department of Transportation published incredible drone footage of the ongoing construction of Seattle's new underground tunnel.
SpaceX astronauts will wear stylish, heroic space suits
SpaceX's Elon Musk was an inspiration for Iron Man. Now Musk wants the same designer to create suits for SpaceX astronauts.
‘Boaty McBoatface’ research ship will officially be named the RRS Sir David Attenborough
The British Natural Environment Research Council asked people online to name their new ship. People online made some odd choices.
Invisible ‘sonic net’ makes birds avoid airports, stops them from being obliterated by planes
A new technique to reduce bird strikes uses ambient noise that migratory birds don't like to keep them away from airfields and other dangerous areas.
Make it rain: Nevada is experimenting with cloud-seeding drones to fight drought
Nevada is using cloud seeding drones for the first time ever to help increase rainfall and end the drought conditions plaguing the US west coast.
GoPro’s highly anticipated Karma drone won’t be released until this winter
Amid financial trouble, GoPro announces that it will delay the release of its highly-anticipated new drone until later this year.
Robot hordes are one step closer as robo roaches learn to work together
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have developed robotic cockroaches that work in tandem to climb steps.
Siri’s creators just showed off Viv, a brilliant new AI assistant
Viv wants to be the one-stop place for you to interact with everything.
Painted optical illusion road blocks trick drivers into slowing down near school zones in India
Painted optical illusion speed bumps are getting drivers to slow down in Ahmedabad, India. The 2D creations look like 3D road blocks from a distance.
ModiFace can show you what you look like in 20 years
You can already get a virtual makeover with ModiFace, but now, the app is applying augmented reality for the sake of health, not just aesthetics.
Here's how to watch Mercury in transit
Mercury is on the move, friends, and it doesn't happen all that often. Time to get outside and "ooh" and "ahh" over one of nature's great miracles.
Springfree Trampoline featuring Tgoma encourages kids (and adults) to get bouncing
Springfree, the "world's safest trampoline" now comes with an app that turns the whole jumping experience into an interactive gaming system.
The anti-Uber: Karhoo levels the playing field for London’s old-school cabbies
The Karhoo app for iOS and Android gives you all the information you need to choose the right car, at the right time, for the right price.
This heated waterbed keeps you dry but makes you feel like you’re floating
Starpool introduced its dry waterbed at the Salon del Mobile in Milan. It supposedly makes you feel like you're floating.
Could this massive, wind-powered skyscraper solve global warming?
Paolo Venturella Architecture says the key to cooling the globe is to build a skyscraper that extends toward the sun and guides hot air away from Earth.
Expandable habitats may be our new homes when we get to Mars
As humanity gets closer to finding a new home on the Red Planet, what exactly are we going to live in? The answer, it seems, lies in expandable habitats.
Don’t buy an Echo just to talk to Alexa — download Lexi instead
Meet Lexi, the iOS app that lets you talk to Alexa directly from your iPhone.
MIT is preparing to spend a lot of money to make the world a better place
The price for a better world? $5 billion if you're MIT.
Weekly Rewind: Stainless clothing, an Instagram flaw, the Stones vs. Trump
In the tech world, a lot happens in a week. So much news goes on that it's almost impossible for mere mortals with real lives to keep track of everything.
We may be able to detect Zika with a $1 paper test
Zika, the latest global health crisis that was first detected in Brazil last April, may have finally met its match in the form of a $1 paper-based test.
You can't grill a perfect steak without this thermometer
Challenged by a professor, five Rice University engineering student have invented what they consider the perfect grilling thermometer.
This new glucose monitor eliminates the need to prick your finger
A team from Cardiff University's School of Engineering has come up with a type of "wearable" that uses microwaves to track glucose levels.
Weekend Workshop: Play the ultimate skill game with this one-hole elliptical pool table
Traditional six-hole billiards tables are excellent tests of talent, no doubt, but this one-hole elliptical pool table is truly a game of incredible skill.
There’s no need for 3D glasses with the HoloFlex holographic smartphone
Researchers have come up with a smartphone that has both a flexible and a holographic display, showing 3D images without the need for 3D glasses.
Rise in popularity of online vision exams has your local eye doctor seeing red
The American Optometric Association is ready to wage war against online vision exams, with its initial target being Chicago-based startup Opternative.
Luxembourg just announced plans to launch an asteroid mining rig into orbit
The small European country of Luxembourg will launch a spacecraft into orbit to test technologies that may one day help them mine asteroids for resources.
Rest on the seventh: Anupama Kundoo designs houses to be built in six days
Ferrocement could be the material of the future for housing in developing nations, with architect Anupama Kundoo showing us the way.
Forget one screen — two screens could be the future of the smartwatch
Controlling a tiny smartwatch display can be a little frustrating -- but what if you had two tiny smartwatch displays?
Against all odds, SpaceX successfully landed its fastest-moving Falcon 9 rocket yet
What was expected to be a successful mission but an unsuccessful landing for SpaceX's Falcon 9, turned out to be a big success all around.