It looks like a tube made of glass but it’s actually aluminum. Well, aluminum with an asterisk beside it — this is not elemental aluminum but rather a material made using it. We got ont… ...

Jim Miller from Thermcraft shows us their transparent tube furnace that was originally developed by MIT. The transparent nature of the furnace allows the user to gain valuable insights into what is ...

Topping out at about 12 miles (20 km), the elevator features a commercial space launch runway at the top, where single-stage reusable spacecraft can launch and land in thin atmosphere, and ...