With Star Wars on the mind lately, a lot of you are probably thinking about how cool it would be to go to space. While floating around in zero gravity may look fun in the movies, it actually does some not-so-fun things to your body. Astronaut Leland Marvin is here to unmask any preconceived notion…

What’s a company to do when its dreams crash and burn? Turn to Stephen Hawking for help. Virgin Galactic, the underdog in the private space tourism community, had some pretty aspirational goals of sending wealthy passengers into space (a seat aboard the commercial aircraft would cost you a whopping $250,000). The company received a ton…

A lot of exciting things are happening in the engineering industry. In just five years, we’re expecting to see driverless cars on the roads, we’re caring a lot more about our planet by trying to live “greener” lives, and all of our products are getting smarter than us. And this year, we’ve made some huge…

Greg Fyke, Marketing Director, IoT Wireless Products, Silicon Labs There are three key areas of improvement in IoT applications: interoperability, complexity and security. Connected devices must be able interpret the same set of data and be controlled by a single application. This can be achieved by either using a common application layer or by interworking…

If your company manufactures products containing 3TG (tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold), you’ll want to listen up. This week, the U.S. Court of Appeals denied the petitions of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Amnesty International for a rehearing in the conflict minerals case. If you’re not familiar with the case, in 2010, Congress…

3D printing as a whole has really taken off recently (you name it, it’s being 3D-printed). Take for instance the latest 3D-printed creation to blast off—the world’s first 3D-printed unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). This 3D-printed creation actually flies, and it made its debut this week at the Dubai Airshow. The creation was a collaboration between…

A strange piece of space junk is headed toward Earth…WTF. Excuse my French, but that’s actually its name. Well, WT1190F to be exact. This piece of space junk isn’t exactly new. It was first discovered in 2013 by the Catalina Sky Survey. While it still remains mysterious, we do know some things about it. Based…

The Military teaches its robots to do all sorts of things—Walk through minefields, deactivate bombs, clear out hostile buildings. They’re given some pretty serious tasks. But would you ever guess these military robots have a creative side? Researchers at the University of Arizona and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in collaboration with the…

Shooting down your neighbor’s pesky drone with a shotgun might be a thing of the past now (not that it should’ve ever have been a thing). READ: This Is Why You Shouldn’t Shoot Down A Drone A new anti UAV defense system uses a more sophisticated approach to taking down drones. Developed by British company…

‘Unmanned Rocket Explodes After Liftoff.’ Most people would read this headline and think, “Thank goodness no one was on board!” because the term “unmanned” has, historically, been used to describe machines with no people on board. But others may think, “If there were people on board, I wonder what gender they would be?” The divide…

SpaceX and Boeing will soon shuttle astronauts to the International Space Station, thanks to the launch of NASA’s commercial crew transportation contract. This will be the first time private companies will carry people into orbit, since the US retired its space shuttle program in 2011. Since this forced retirement, US astronauts have been totally dependent…