The experimental XB-1 aircraft, made by US company Boom Supersonic, flew faster than the speed of sound on 28 January. The achievement is the first time any civil aircraft has gone supersonic over ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft broke the sound barrier during three test runs, a step toward the possible return of supersonic commercial flights ...

Chuck Yeager flew a rocket-propelled experimental aircraft across the Mojave Desert -- taking off from the Mojave Air and Space Port just as the XB-1 did. Before today's sound barrier-breaking ...

Airbus is experimenting with a smartphone-based artificial intelligence (AI) program it calls GenAIR Assistant to generate custom instructions for assembling aircraft. The software can generate ...

A new hunter-killer unmanned aircraft system (UAS) configuration will begin testing in February with the 1st Battalion, 29th ...

The aerospace company Boom Supersonic flew its experimental aircraft supersonically for the first time today, a major accomplishment for a company seeking to fly commercial supersonic airliners by ...

In a blog post last week, the company announced a handful of new experimental features available to Premium subscribers. These features, while not enabled by default, can be switched on from ...

There could be new hope on the horizon for kidney cancer patients in the form of an experimental vaccine. Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Yale Cancer Center ...

Subscribers can now also sign up to test multiple experimental features all at once, instead of being limited to just one at a time. These will eventually be joined by expanded playback options ...

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