While the engines in propeller-powered aircraft generally achieve their maximum efficiency at much lower speeds and altitudes, jet engines achieve maximum efficiency at speeds close to or even well above the speed of sound. Check out this spectacular landing in NYC's JFK Airport.

The Israel Missile Defense Organization (IMDO) and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) successfully completed a series of tests of the David's Sling Weapon System designated DST-4. David's Sling is an Israel Defense Forces military system being jointly developed by the Israeli defense contractor R...

A private company has launched a spacecraft in a bold demonstration test for NASA. The Space Exploration Technologies rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday morning. The Falcon 9 is carrying a capsule named Dragon. The company, known as SpaceX, hopes to place the capsule in orbit and th...

Two days after finally smashing the Outright world speed sailing record, the Vestas Sailrocket 2 team decide to tackle the 'Nautical Mile' world record which was held by the mighty 'Hydroptere'.VSR2 performed exactly as predicted by the Sailrocket design team of Malcolm Barnsley and Chris Hornzee Jo...

Stella Grant (Haley Lu Richardson) is every bit a seventeen-year-old: she’s attached to her laptop and loves her best friends. But unlike most teenagers, she spends much of her time living in a hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-control -- all of

East Side Access is the massive mainline rail project New York City has been working on for the past few decades, and it'll bring a brand new terminal to Grand Central Terminal, alongside Long Island Rail Road services. The culmination of the East Side Access project will be the opening of Grand Cen...

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...

Margaret Heckler was President Reagan's secretary of health and human services from March 1983 to December 1985. Here she says AIDS was her number one priority, but that she had to balance her department's response against the Reagan administration's fiscal priorities. Heckler maintains that preexis...

Audrey Hepburn portrait being performed instantly by famous artist.

On June 28, 2014, during the one year anniversary of the Supreme Court Decision allowing marriages to continue in California popular transportation service Uber provided 8 lucky couples spontaneous weddings in San Francisco in celebration of the city's Pride event and marriage equality. The couples ...