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This adorable little robot is as versatile as a bird or an insect

Fill ’er up— with hydrogen

Two registries have claimed the Internet domain, leaving it stuck in limbo. The court battle begins next week

No more natural breathing

Timing, cost, and the right license made all the difference

Bells and semiautonomous whistles

Fast lap to the future

Engineers are trying to squeeze outsize AI into mobile systems

A new "rocket science" for the blood detects proteins we didn't even know were there

Just don’t call it a DeLorean

Mishaps and a court-imposed reactor shutdown have left the country's energy goals in doubt

Key works from the late AI titan’s favorite sci-fi authors

London’s new $21 billion underground rail network is a hotbed of innovation—built with lots of mud, concrete, and sweat

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The financier warns foreign investors that familiar business models might not work

Novel nanostructure combines plasmonics and toplogicial insulators for a boost in light absorption

With carbon markets and subsidies in doubt, nuclear is no longer affordable

Its inventors say it could work for other neurotransmitters, too.

New speech recognition technology can distinguish sounds that look the same on lips, making lip reading easier for machines

If wrinkling graphene once is interesting, what happens when you do it repeatedly?

The U.K.’s Alton Towers, which opens its Galactica ride this week, is one of more than a dozen amusement parks that are giving old rides new life with VR

The engineer’s life disproves the myth that only scientists make discoveries

If you had all the amazing robots Google has, what would you do? Here’s what some leading roboticists say

New kinds of detectors look back to the beginning of the universe

The OTTO 100 can bring 100 kilos of whatever you want, wherever you want it

Helium-ion microscopy could directly write circuitry on a 2-D material without multi-step lithographic processes

Your Fitbit can tell how many calories you’re burning, but no gadget so far can tell you how many you’re taking in

An artificial egg packed with sensors could help save endangered birds

The former CEO and management guru comes to the end of what he thought of as a random walk through life

A gesture-controlled system could allow surgeons to swipe through medical images without dirtying their hands

The company introduced technology that automatically adjusts the color of a screen to blend with the ambient light of its surroundings.

A future without traffic lights is fast, efficient, and terrifying

The experimental device involves no injections

This prototype drone can follow a cyclist down a forest trail, which is a skill we've never seen demonstrated before

Nima, a pocket-sized chemistry lab, lets gluten-free people test their food at the table

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The TeraRanger One is a maker-friendly, high-speed, high-precision sensor born in the radiation-filled tunnels of the Large Hadron Collider

At SXSW, Google laid out what one expert calls its most conservative roadmap yet

The device that will realize Oxford Nanopore's grand vision to read the world in DNA

A mysterious power surge is taking out the electrical propulsion systems on random BART trains; 50 cars hit yesterday

IBM combines "top-down" and "bottom-up" manufacturing to usher a new approach to electronics manufacturing

Researchers propose vehicular cloud using cars in parking lots as ad hoc data centers

ETH Zurich spin-off Aerotain has created the most agile balloon you’ve ever seen

SCAMP is a quadrotor with legs that can perch on walls and then climb up them with spiny little feet

Zapping the brain during therapy has long-lasting effects for stroke rehabilitation

This $200 robot is designed to mop and sweep hard floors

Back in 1993, a physicist named Judah Levine had a bright idea: distributing time over the Internet

Durability and resiliency are the watchwords in the face of power outages, spotty connectivity, and schoolkids