MIT engineers have flown the first silent, fuel-free “ion plane.” The light aircraft is the first plane to fly with no propellers, turbine blades, or other moving parts.

LON­DON: Per­haps it’s not up there with life’s most im­por­tant ques­tions – what is the mean­ing of it all, why are we here? – but don’t pre­tend you haven’t ever won­dered why some parts of your body are dif­fer­ent colours.
Why, for ex­am­ple, are our…

Remember when you could go through security without a boarding pass? At these U.S. airports, you now can.

vehicle widely regarded as the first automobile

pointed fastener with a locking mechanism, often used to secure clothing and cloth diapers

American rocket engineer

65% of the world's population is lactose intolerant, but that doesn't mean that cheese is totally off the table.

The Parker Solar Probe (PSP; previously Solar Probe, Solar Probe Plus or Solar Probe+) is a NASA space probe launched in 2018 with the mission of making observations of the outer corona of the Sun. It will approach to within 9.86 solar radii (6.9 million…

Ahead of Northern Ireland's clash at Windsor Park tonight, Joanne Fleming uncovers interesting facts about the rivals.

species of edible fungus

form of conflict that could happen after a massive nuclear exchange

Did you know that Tobey Maguire's run as Spider-Man could have ended after one movie, when he reportedly tried to scheme his way to a heftier payday for Spider-Man 2?

aviation accident

mode of transport which falls between both taxicabs and buses

US law

Red and Blue almost had over 65,000 versions.

Chinese scientist (1922-1968)

A Chinese rocket scientist helped two superpowers reach the moon, but his story is remembered in only one of them.

From Malta to Colombia, women have significantly boosted their share of seats in parliament, but global progress towards gender equality has slowed

The purported discovery is backed by individuals with a history of making false, pseudoscientific claims.