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New production technique for nanoparticle-enabled polymers could lead to better control of soft robots

A 320-terabyte prototype, expected in 2016, will showcase the company’s bid to reinvent computing

Meeting people, not playing games, will make VR popular

The company’s C919 airliner is slated to begin flight tests soon

Five intrepid spacecraft will make their way to the Red Planet in 2016

Scheme lets scientists "have our cake and eat it too"

It's hard to find trustworthy data about IT debacles

A Minority Report–style glove for controlling computers and machines harvests energy from finger motions

Liquid precursor replaces gas to make 3-D nanostructures in seconds

A wireless camera pill uses fluorescent imaging to help detect cancer inside patients' throats and gastrointestinal pathways

Researchers leverage plasmonics to create a laser printer capable of producing an image with over 120,000 dpi resolution

The long-delayed Tres Amigas superstation would help move up to 20 gigawatts of electricity around the continent

Spectrum’s annual special report for the technologies to watch this year

At the Zurich games, people with disabilities will use robotics to go for the gold

Despite big promises, these tech giants probably won’t champion end-to-end encryption

He’ll compete in a bike race, thanks to nerve stimulators implanted in his legs

The latest search for extraterrestrial intelligence will seek out radio and laser signals from other worlds

Before building a vacuum train tube from L.A. to San Francisco, proponents must succeed with an 8-kilometer test track

In Ford’s Palo Alto Research Center, researchers are using video game systems to speed up the way autonomous vehicle software learns

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Understanding the experiences of adult transfer students from community colleges could help STEM

The first demonstration of boron-based borophene reveals a conductive material that could outperform graphene

Supercapacitors finally on par with lead-acid batteries for energy storage, could drive an electric bus 25 kilometers

The two companies partnered to create a robotics-focused surgical startup

Delusional estimates for time and cost plague large IT projects

Google counters by wooing British regulators and setting up a ride-sharing business

In a cutthroat market for autonomous vehicle experts, Ford's CEO Mark Shields says it’s doing just fine. (But is still hiring)

In the iron economy, you'd retrofit coal plants to burn iron powder, then recycle it using renewable energy

World leaders set a high bar for climate action, striking a deal in Paris that well exceeds their action plans. But transparency, verification and peer pressure could close the gap

Nauto retrofits cars with connectivity, machine learning and safety systems

You have 30 days to register your personal drone online before the FAA starts charging a fee

Despite metal-like conductivity, this new class of materials has high optical transparency

An expensive new Roomba with features and performance to match

Crystals plus infrared beams bring water to near zero

Mercedes and Hyundai hope they'll be able to send their new autonomous vehicles out on demo drives

Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman and others believe the world needs noncommercial AI research—and they’re hiring

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Engineers soup up off-the-shelf robots to new standards of accuracy

Nanopillars on the surface of photovoltaics are becoming a trend for allowing in more photons

What happens when you eliminate test and QA? Fewer errors and faster development, say Yahoo’s tech leaders

Starting in 2018, U.S. vehicle safety ratings will account for technologies meant to keep cars from crashing

Computer can not only write as well as humans, but invent new symbols

Study finds that 40% of PhDs go to industry and boost economic growth

A report published by NREL found that more than half of energy capacity added in the US in 2014 was renewable

Two education startups look to personalize online help for math and science classes

Will porous semiconductors lead to more efficient photovoltaic cells and lithium-ion batteries?

It may be possible to create digital clones of anyone