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The researchers zapped the ceramics with electric fields to prevent them from shattering (though under enough pressure they will still crack).

There's a lot of junk on the internet, but the world wide web is still a wonderful place to share and discover knowledge. These are the sites we love to read.

Thicker clouds above the North Atlantic, captured by NASA, are the result of pollution from ships passing below.

Past, American waveriders had some critical flaws that the new Chinese design aims to solve.

Cloaking technologies could become a reality with a specially designed material that can mask itself from other forms of light when it is hit with a "beam of invisibility."

For the first time, the private spaceflight company Stratolaunch tested all six of the engines on a colossal airplane with the largest wingspan of any aircraft in the world.

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO believes the only way to keep pace with artificial intelligence is to upgrade human intelligence.

A test at a SpaceX facility nets a German team top prize.

John Rummel, a biology professor at East Carolina University, reflects on his experiences as NASA's planetary protection officer, a job that requires a lot of science, but no alien combat.