Artificial lung system keeps patient alive without lungs until transplant

Humans can’t live without lungs, but Ankit Bharat’s patient did for 48 hours. Reporting in the journal Med, surgeons describe how they removed a patient’s infected lungs and built...

From stellar engines to Dyson bubbles, alien megastructures could hold themselves together under the right conditions

New theoretical models have strengthened the case that immense, energy-harvesting structures orbiting their host stars could exist in principle in distant stellar systems. With the right engineering...

EXCLUSIVE: Inflatable Space Bag May Help Scientists Capture and Mine Metal-Rich Asteroids

by:Rhodilee Jean A. Dolor A California-based startup is eyeing to use an inflatable bag to catch asteroids and clean up garbage in space. TransAstra, a company founded by an aerospace engineer who taught at...