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The X-44 MANTA never left the drawing board, but its ideas still loom over future air-dominance planning. -Conceived as a ...

There it is. The new and upgraded S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier from the new Captain America movie: The Winter Soldier. You can check out the trailer here on YouTube. Maybe you notice that this is a little ...

The rise of the commercial space industry in the past decade has been nothing short of amazing to watch. Not only have we witnessed some brilliant innovations brought to reality, such as reusable ...

It's difficult to make a rocket if you are one of the first rocket makers. Sometimes, you simply don't know the best way to design a rocket so you just have to pick something. This is exactly what ...

Like a child scared to dive into a pool, cosmic matter needs one last push to plunge into a black hole. New observations confirm that magnetic fields provide this final galactic shove. The ...