The U.S. Navy announced Monday that an electromagnetic catapult successfully launched a fighter jet in a demonstration of two futuristic technologies.The electromagnetic aircraft launch system, is being developed to replace the steam catapults that have launched fighter jets off Navy carriers for more than 50 years. An electric currents that generate magnetic fields from which [...]

Scientists are getting closer to reaching one of the Holy Grails of medical research — regenerating brain cells to wipe out a wide range of neurological diseases, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and epilepsy.”We’re not there yet,” said Dennis Steindler, executive director of the McKnight Brain Institute at the University of Florida and one of the leaders [...]

Forget long distant bills and roaming charges (especially with me working in Tokyo and sleeping in Paris). I want a very small device that lets me talk and see anyone, anywhere and anytime. All for the price of the device and please throw in the ability for universal translation for a modest surcharge.(WATCH VIDEO)  

Teleportation is the name given by science fiction writers to the feat of making an object or person disintegrate in one place while a perfect replica appears somewhere else. How this is accomplished is usually not explained in detail, but the general idea seems to be that the original object is scanned in such a [...]