The world’s first flying car has flown and is now being built. Alef Aeronautics’ Model A marks a shift from prototype to ...

Join me on a flight from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Amsterdam aboard a Silkway West B747-8 Freighter, carrying 120 tons of cargo and a takeoff weight exceeding 400 tons. Before departure, I received a tour ...

You may soon drive to an airport, then fly home. Alef Aeronautics announced formal agreements with Half Moon Bay and Hollister airports to begin test operations of a road-legal, vertical-takeoff ...

Researchers have folded their way into a groundbreaking new family of origami patterns. Dubbed bloom patterns, because they resemble flowers as they unfold, the new class of origami shapes holds great ...

Bloom patterns could be useful, as engineers build folding structures to send to outer space. They’re also very pretty. Researchers have now found a new class of origami that they call bloom patterns, ...

The year is 2015. “Mad scientist” Doc Brown has just brought wide-eyed teenager Marty McFly to the future in style: aboard a flying DeLorean. Although the time travelers are out of place, their mode ...

Jeremy has more than 2200 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

Researchers mapped all 139,255 neurons in the brain of an adult fruit fly, which are linked by more than 50 million synapses. Tyler Sloan for FlyWire, Princeton University, (Dorkenwald, S. et al.

In the brain of a singular fruit fly, nerve cells weave themselves together, enabling flight, mating, eating, sleeping and every other activity of her fly life. Now, in nine papers published October 2 ...

Scientists have mapped out how 140,000 neurons are wired in the brain of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. By Carl Zimmer A fruit fly’s brain is smaller than a poppy seed, but it packs ...

Stanford scientists spent the summer investigating everything from how therapy changes the brain to what causes cells to fold themselves. Learn about their findings in this week’s Research Roundup.

A fly landed on the face of former President Donald Trump during a press event Thursday, marking the second Trump-led campaign that featured a notable interaction with the insect. At Trump's event at ...