How aircraft company's new patent takes a page out of science fiction. Pictured is a still of the Battle of Naboo from "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace." Lucasfilm — -- Boeing's new ...

Earth’s survival story has always invited grand explanations, from divine intervention to elegant equations in physics. The idea of a “newly found force field” around our planet taps into that same ...

This is about as futuristic as it gets: Boeing has officially been awarded a patent for a technology that can generate force fields meant to protect military vehicles from the shockwaves that result ...