I settle into the seat, check my controls, and lift off. The aircraft lifts off, not takes off. It’s like a helicopter at first, as the propellers start to spin. But unlike a chopper’s long floppy ...

For adults of a certain age and a certain whimsy, there are a few technological advances we're still waiting for. From ...

If you've been wrestling with how to bring your personal flying machine along in your car, look no further. During CES 2025 this week, Chinese company Xpeng Aeroht showed off its hybrid car that ...

A giant egg equipped with rotors and "Transformers"-style robots are among some of the creative designs submitted in a $2 million dollar contest to dream up new ways of flying. A giant egg equipped ...

Have you ever imagined what personal flying could look like in the near future? China's Zhiyuan Research Institute, based in Hangzhou, is bringing that vision closer to reality. They just unveiled ...

Being is trying to be cheap and get a deal. If they were serious about this they would have something like an x prize, 10 mil (to start), proper milestones and some serious competition going. It seems ...

Since the early 20th century, an unheralded star of genetics research has been a small and essentially very annoying creature: the fruit fly. As global automakers compete to bring the first flying car ...

Everybody dreams of flying. Leonardo da Vinci sketched dozens of prototypes for flying machines based on the anatomy of birds. The Wright brothers finally worked out the details four centuries later.

Artificial intelligence has exploded across our news feeds, with ChatGPT and related AI technologies becoming the focus of broad public scrutiny. Beyond popular chatbots, biologists are finding ways ...