In the 1950s the Navy and Army worked on small VTOL machines to make troops go airborne. They worked, just not well enough.

After building a flying jet bike and hoverboard, Franky Zapata has created a futuristic drone. But he’s really selling an ancient fantasy like the one pictured above. “It’s being able to fly all by ...

Airborne cameras are taking pictures of individual houses across the U.S. Insurance companies use the photos to inspect buildings after extreme weather, from hurricanes to hailstorms. But they also ...

Nature can be an instructive guide for overcoming technological barriers. In 1969, the American engineer Otto Schmitt coined a term to describe the practice of science pulling from nature’s source ...

You might say a storm is brewing in the small town of Georgetown -- but it's not the kind that brings snow -- it's the kind that brings the heat. Cincinnati snowstorm tests plow crews, website crashes ...

When Maxx Chewning sold his sour-candy business to Hershey for $75.5 million, the first thing he did—before buying a Rolex or dream home—was jet his wife and six friends to Vail on a Dassault Falcon ...

Researchers have found a way to make the chip design and manufacturing process much easier — by tapping into a hybrid blend of artificial intelligence and quantum computing. When you purchase through ...

DENVER (KDVR) — A Denver woman is feeling devastated after a one-of-a-kind flying machine she bought was stolen off her porch only minutes after it was delivered, and the theft was caught on her ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

A flying machine designed by Leonardo da Vinci may have been functional and much quieter than modern drone designs. Rajat Mittal at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland and his colleagues have found ...

There was a time when having your own plane was a pretty clear indicator that you were part of that upper crust of society. If it was a pricey and rare electric plane, then all the more. But those ...