The only European company to be working on a passenger VTOL, Vertical Aerospace, brought the Valo aircraft to New York to ...

Environmental change doesn’t affect evolution in a single, predictable way. In large-scale computer simulations, scientists discovered that some fluctuating conditions help populations evolve higher ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the ...

A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...

From a distance, it looks like a war plane imagined by Hayao Miyazaki, or the type of machine that could only exist in a science fiction novel. But according to aviation enthusiasts who captured ...

The US Navy has recovered two aircraft that crashed into the South China Sea in October while flying off the USS Nimitz, the service said in a statement Tuesday. An unmanned system on a contracted ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...

The deal with a company owned by Embraer gives Beta Technologies an additional source of revenue as it develops its own electric aircraft. By Niraj Chokshi Two companies racing to develop electric ...

A small handful of companies are responsible for building virtually all of the world's commercial aircraft, with the two largest players making up around 80% of the current global fleet. These two big ...

"Consciousness," although challenging to define, can be thought of as a first-person awareness of one's surroundings and oneself. You sense the world through your eyes, nose, ears and hands, and track ...

DARPA's X-65, that replaces conventional aircraft flight controls with puffs of air, is coming together at Boeing subsidiary Aurora’s Bridgeport, West Virginia facility. The fuselage is taking shape ...

In November 2025, the Fujian aircraft carrier officially entered service with China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). Unlike the Liaoning (CV-16) and Shandong (CV-17), which use ski-jump decks, ...