War has a funny way of turning wild ideas into serious government projects. In the chaos of World War II and the paranoia of the Cold War, military minds across the globe cooked up experiments that ...

A strange new phase of ice has been discovered during experiments with the world's largest X-ray laser. Meet ice XXI, a bizarre phase that forms at room temperature, under extreme pressure.

Porsche’s archives hide concepts far wilder than any 911. From the electric Vision Renndienst “minivan” to the single-seat Bergspyder and the Vision Gran Turismo, these 10 studies show what happens ...