Metal Gear Solid character Solid Snake is a tough, silent guy due to the technical limitations of the MSX2 computer.

Hideo Kojima explains that there's a reason behind Metal Gear protagonist Solid Snake's cool, strong, and silent personality ...

Here, the authors present a sintering-free approach to synthesize disorder-driven garnet-type solid electrolytes, achieving performance comparable to traditional sintered materials. The synthesis ...

I have been a technology journalist for 30-plus years and have covered just about every kind of computer gear—from the 386SX to 64-core processors—in my long tenure as an editor, a writer, and ...

Applications for US unemployment benefits were little changed last week at a relatively low level that underscores a resilient labor market. Initial claims increased by 2,000 to 223,000 in the ...

British startup Magdrive claims it can help with both, via a new propulsion system for spacecraft that will launch into space for the first time later this year and will be fueled by solid metal.

Several startups, including Factorial Energy, QuantumScape, and SES AI, have advanced to the sample delivery and pilot runs for semi-solid or quasi-solid-state batteries, with the first-generation ...

Death adders (Acanthophis) are a group of venomous snakes native to Australia and New Guinea. They have one of the fastest strikes of any snake, with some species being capable of biting and ...

Google Snake is a great example, but there are more worth checking out — here's a list of 12 that stand out. The Google team spent quite a bit of time making their version of Pac-Man as faithful ...

‘HyLiST’ stands for Hybrid Lithium Metal-based Scalable Solid State Battery Manufacturing. Under the leadership of the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, an international consortium is working on ...

Italian scientists have achieved a groundbreaking feat by "freezing" light, revealing that it can exist as a supersolid—a rare state of matter that combines solid-like structure with frictionless flow ...

Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory / CC BY 2.0 Scientists have transformed light into a supersolid, a unique form of matter that behaves like both a solid and a liquid, for the first time. The ...