The U.S. Department of Energy announced Tuesday a monumental milestone in nuclear fusion research: a "net energy gain" was achieved for the first time in history by scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm called it "one of the most...

May 30, 1963 marked the fifteenth birthday of my sister Nancy Gerson in Mexico City. As first generation born in Mexico my parents decided to have a quinceañera celebration of a girl's 15th birthday. It has pre-Columbian roots in Mexico (Aztecs) and is widely celebrated by girls throughout Latin A

Disney Imagineering has created autonomous robot stunt doubles. The robot acrobats can flip through the air and stick a landing every time. The machines they’re creating are becoming more active and mobile in order to better represent the wildly physical nature of the characters they portray within

In the old days, doctors sliced you open to examine your body. But today, with the help of powerful body imaging technology, they can look at "slices" ofyour anatomy without a scalpel. Many body imaging devices follow a principle called tomography (the 'T' in CT, PET and SPECT systems), which take i...

This wild new motorcycle, invented by 19-year-old Ben J. Poss Gulak was presented at the 30th annual Motorcycle Convention in Toronto in March, 2011. Gulak continues to develop and commercialize his invention while studying engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The latest prototy...

In the premiere of our ReForm series, we explore the frontier of the 3D face- and body scanning technology used to create digital doubles for films, video games, and holograms. We meet some of the scanned humans, their avatars, and get to understand the challenges the Institute For Creative Technolo...

Come explore with us Madurodam the famous Miniature City in Holland The Hague - Den Haag Ever wanted to see what a miniature city looks like ? Madurodam which is actually a war memorial did a beautiful imitation of a mini city near The Hague in the Netherlands. We were super exited to explore this ...

Pride is in the air in New York City, and Queerty kicked things off on Friday, June 17th with an unforgettable evening at Current in Chelsea, celebrating this year’s #Pride50 honorees. The looks did not disappoint, naturally, but the real focus was on the 50 trailblazing honorees. Representing every

The city of Dubai is no stranger to ambitious construction and architectural projects. Dubai recently announced plans to construct a $5 billion resort that resembles the moon. The structure will be 735 feet tall, and will emulate the conditions of the actual moon. In today's video, we discuss everyt...

The DRC is a competition of robot systems and software teams vying to develop robots capable of assisting humans in responding to natural and man-made disasters. It was designed to be extremely difficult. Participating teams, representing some of the most advanced robotics research and development o...