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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

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

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

Security experts say hospitals aren't adequately protected from constant cyber attacks

Researchers at the UK's NGI won't work at the new facilty for fear that their research will be pilfered

If some drivers are willing to take a few extra minutes getting where they need to go, most drivers will save time on their commutes

Vertical take off and landing comes to fixed-wing UAVs

The AI owes its success to self-training deep neural networks, which can, in principle, be applied to other domains. Like your job.

It spent a fortune, but that doesn't mean there's a tech bubble brewing

Wrist biosensors accurately detect drug use, and someday could anticipate when a relapse will occur

A basic limit has been measured for a real-world bit; now how to reach it?

Gold nanoparticles are chemically modified to form flexible devices for wearables

Spectrum's new biomedical engineering blog will chronicle bold attempts to understand and debug the human body

The futuristic diagnostic device from Star Trek still belongs to the future

The futuristic diagnostic device from Star Trek still belongs to the future

Implanted electrical devices may be better medicine than pills and drugs, says GSK bigwig

Implanted electrical devices may be better medicine than pills and drugs, says GSK bigwig

Technique promises metamaterials that have both finely tuned magnetic properties and reconfigurable device architectures

Fans of the Amiga computer turned to social media to react to the death of Dave Needle, one of its creators

An MIT spinout is developing self-driving cars for use in autonomous-only urban zones