A survey of 1000 travellers over the age of 18 undertaken by Send My Bag has found that just under half (48 per cent) believe airlines deliberately profit from confusing baggage policies, while 37 per ...

FLYING CARS have been humanity’s dream since European futurists mused about them at the dawn of the automobile age in the late 19th century. Time and again humanity has been disappointed. “We wanted ...

In the fast-paced world of medical innovation, the development of programmable microbots is emerging as a revolutionary force, offering groundbreaking solutions for long-term autonomous operations in ...

Many of us are still grappling with the idea of self-driving cars, and even those are still hit or miss. Witness, for example, recent reports of Waymo vehicles in San Francisco driving erratically and ...

Ten years ago I praised a book by Mervyn King, former governor of the Bank of England, on the subject of “radical uncertainty.” Back then, I agreed with King that radical uncertainty – the kind that ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Managers at Orlando International Airport are taking another step toward bringing flying taxis to Orlando. They completed an exercise with the Federal Aviation Administration to ...

The bleeding edge: Nanomachines were once a distant fantasy of science fiction writers and video games like Deus Ex and Metal Gear Solid. However, recent advances in miniaturization have brought those ...

Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) and the University of Michigan have created the world's smallest autonomous and programmable robots. Each measuring about 200 micrometers wide – ...