History was made when the first Qantas non-stop flight from Perth to London landed on Sunday morning at Heathrow following its departure on Saturday night. The journey was scheduled for a gruelling 17 hours and 20 minutes but it landed triumphantly a few minutes ahead of schedule at 5.02am after travelling the historical 9,000 miles. …

When Canadian engineers Omar Eleryan and Simon Czarnota first tried flying a regular drone, they were put off by how big, loud, hard to control and potentially dangerous it was. That prompted them to form Cleo Robotics, and develop the donut-shaped Cleo drone. Recently showcased at CES, the Cleo fits in a pocket, is controlled …

It’s really quite astonishing that more research and development isn’t being done in the area of water-borne housing: 71 percent of the Earth’s surface is water, the world’s already overcrowded population will grow from 7 to 9 billion in the next 20 years, 75 percent of the world’s megacities are on the water … the …

It appears billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk is taking #deletefacebook seriously. During a tweetstorm on Friday, Musk nonchalantly erased Tesla and SpaceX’s Facebook accounts. The abrupt move came after a Twitter user urged him to delete his company’s accounts from the world’s most popular social media platform. Both pages had roughly 2.6 billion ‘likes’ but …

A new breed of superhumans that can communicate using their thoughts alone could be a reality within decades, a brain surgeon has predicted. These telepathic superhumans will transfer information to other people and machines using brain implants, according to Dr Eric Leuthardt. The Washington University brain surgeon believes getting a brain implant will be as …