By: Tom Ward/Futurism Eviation Aircraft has unveiled a zero-emissions, all-electric aircraft prototype with the ability to transport up to nine passengers a range of 600 miles. It could prove to be a key element to cleaning up the airline industry, which currently accounts for more than two percent of the world’s total emissions. A PROMISING…
Volkswagen Confirms It’s Bringing Back The Microbus
By: Marc Carter/Inhabitat VIEW SLIDESHOW Volkswagen has been teasing Microbus fans for years about the idea of introducing a new Microbus. Back in 2001 the first Microbus concept brought back nostalgic memories of the 1960s and then more recently VW teased us again with the Bulli concept and this year with the I.D. Buzz concept….
SpaceX Just Transformed Space Flight, Launching Two Rockets in 48 Hours Success!
By: Dom Galeon/Futurism Elon Musk’s SpaceX took a scheduling delay and turned it into a historic opportunity: as the result of postponing the launch of a Bulgarian satellite from Monday to Friday of last week, SpaceX had two Falcon 9 rocket launches within 48 hours of each other. Friday’s BulgariaSat-1 launch happened from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The second…
A Facebook AI Unexpectedly Created Its Own Unique Language
By: Karla Lant/Futurism While developing negotiating chatbot agents, Facebook researchers found that the bots spontaneously developed their own non-human language as they improved their techniques, highlighting how little we still know about how artificial intelligence learn. THE FUTURE OF LANGUAGE A recent Facebook report on the way chatbots converse with each other has given the world…
Sweden Commits To Becoming Carbon Neutral By 2045
By: Josh Davis/IFL Science Sweden has announced even more ambitious targets to cut their carbon emissions. The country now aims to become carbon neutral by 2045, five years earlier than what they pledged when they signed up to the Paris climate agreement in 2015. Passed by a massive majority in the Swedish parliament, with 254…
The First “Space Nation” Wants You To Live On Their Orbital Space Station
By: Jonathan O’ Callaghan /IFLScience Asgardia, a rather unusual attempt to start a nation in space has announced it wants to eventually build a space station in Earth orbit and on the Moon. That somewhat lofty goal was revealed at a press conference in Hong Kong today. Here, Asgardia also unveiled its plans to launch its first satellite,…
Wireless Charging Could Soon Be A Reality For Electric Cars
By: Alfredo Carpineti/IFL Science The current limitations of electric cars are usually their range and recharging time, but now a physics breakthrough could wipe them off the list of problems. In a paper published in Nature, Stanford University researchers have worked out how to transmit electric charges wirelessly to a nearby moving object. The team transmitted 1 milliwatt…
This New ‘Solar Paint’ Could Transform Your Entire House Into A Clean Source Of Energy
By: Patrick Caughill/Futurism Powering homes using clean energy is becoming easier thanks to a growing number of innovative technologies and initiatives. Some government programs help homeowners with the financial burden of equipping their residences with energy-generating solar panels, and Elon Musk’s Tesla has developed roofing tiles that double as solar panels to give solar power generation an aesthetic boost. Now, a new…
Surgeon Who Wants To Perform First Human Head Transplant Claims New Breakthrough
By: Robin Andrews/IFL Science “Are human head transplants coming soon?” CNN wondered back in 2015. This is an extremely strange question to attempt to answer. Apart from the fact that it’s now 2017 and such an operation clearly isn’t available at your local hospital, Sergio Canavero – the neuroscientist who first announced that he was going…