What just happened? While we're still a long way from Blade Runner-style skies filled with flying cars, there are a surprising number of companies invested in the industry. One of these is the Larry ...

Sebastian Thrun is waving a device in his hand with an excited, almost gleeful expression on his face as he trots from a makeshift aircraft hangar toward the secret project that Kitty Hawk Corp. has ...

Flying car startup Kitty Hawk has revealed its third electric aircraft — and it can cover 160 kilometers (100 miles) while making almost no noise at all. Project Heaviside is a high-performance, ...

To explain radio, among other natural phenomena, physicists have imagined a stretchy blanket of ions encasing the Earth. This is the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer, named after Harvard’s Bombay-born ...