Ever wonder "WTF?" about a traffic jam? Researchers have devised a formula to explain (but not prevent) them.

Pilot André Borschberg completes the first night flight by a solar-powered airplane. The Solar Impulse aircraft touches down at 9 a.m. local time in Payerne, Switzerland, after 26 hours in the air, breaking records for the highest and longest solar flight in history.

Joysticks, screens, gauges, sensors and logs cram the cockpits of these land, sea, and air machines.

Designer Martin Angelov has dreamed up a new system of public transportation that gives entirely new meaning to 'hanging out downtown.'

A new design study aims to shield riders on public transportation from what?s often their biggest complaint: The public. Designer Dave Owsen has drawn up a vision he somewhat ironically calls Community Transit. While it?s a mass transit system open to the public, riders have all the privacy of a trip in a car.