Can we build a lift that could take us into space?
Rockets are an expensive way of taking people to the final frontier, so James May finds out whether the concept of an elevator could ever get off the ground.
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Rockets are an expensive way of taking people to the final frontier, so James May finds out whether the concept of an elevator could ever get off the ground.
It is called "The Hyperloop" and, according to the designer, it will be a revolutionary "fifth mode" of transport ...
Li Mo, an incoming Chinese graduate student at UC-Riverside, is likely be offered the new option of paying tuition in RMB for the upcoming billing cycle through a new program between China UnionPay, a banking card association in China, and peerTransfer, a provider of global payment solutions for the education industry.
Russia will host the Winter Olympics in Sochi in six months. But what should be a good news story has instead thrust Moscow's recently passed anti-gay propaganda law into the headlines.
Two encrypted email services have closed down for reasons linked to US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden.
Students from outside the EU will pay up to four times the fees charged to UK students next year suggests a survey.
At first glance, my 11-year-old son seems like your everyday, all-American kid.
Recently, a new sailing barge was launched on Lake Champlain that its backers hope will soon be in the vanguard of a new carbon-neutral shipping alternative.
Students who enroll in a new competency-based program at Northern Arizona University will earn a second transcript, which will describe their proficiency in the online bachelor degree’s required concepts
A move by New York City to begin collecting food scraps and other organic waste is just the latest example of expanding efforts ...