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The agency invites both professionals and hobbyists to submit their most dangerous ideas

Sony hopes to catch the wave with its optical jukebox for data storage

New technique serves as a call to arms for identifying source of frequency jitters in nanoresonators

Dreadnoughtus schrani was one of the largest animals ever to exist, and 3D-printed legs are figuring out how it walked

Why heat or cool a whole building when you could heat or cool individual people instead?

The Slovak Republic will "explore" building a superfast vac-train from Bratislava to Vienna and Budapest

Some sources see moves to offshore U.S. jobs to India and elsewhere

Google's AI makes history by beating Korea's Lee Sedol, the best Go player in the world

Nanomanufacturers now have a tool for testing electrical properties of materials in roll-to-roll processing

The technique could offer a non-invasive alternative to optogenetics.

Emotional behaviors can make your drone seem like it's an adventurer, anti-social, or maybe just exhausted

It's been two years since Malaysia Air vanished without trace, and now we have a trace. With the right system, we could have tracked its every move

NASA aims to improve space weather forecasting by better simulating solar storm effects on the Earth's geomagnetic field

AAA survey finds that both the old and young are wary of self-driving cars, but they also want some of the benefits

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A transparent and flexible photodetector made from graphene and quantum dots demonstrates its capabilities

Whole medical implants could dissolve in the body

Will computer modeling and meteorological data allow high-accuracy location of nuclear leaks?

Fraunhofer's headlights use an array of individually addressable LEDs to efficiently illuminate only the parts of the road you care about

Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman remain dedicated to sticky issues at the intersection of technology and society

For engineers, Silicon Valley is turning into a starter community—a good place to kick off a career, but not a place to put down roots

A tech startup aims to spread the wealth of deep learning AI to many industries

A wireless brain-machine interface allows primates to guide a wheelchair to a reward using their mind

IBM researchers solve the problem of measuring temperature locally on the nanoscale

Today, 2 March, appears to be the day IBM watchers have been warning about

Tega uses cuteness and artificial intelligence to teach Spanish to preschoolers

Even though cash is a bigger motivator for men than for women, they’re getting equal pay for equal positions, education, and experience, says tech job search firm Dice

Novel material provides both stability and ease in functionalizing into a semiconductor

It was just a little fender-bender, but still it's for the record books

Boston Dynamics' dog Spot meets Andy Rubin's dog Alex

The company pitches a family of RRAM chips at the low-power gadget market

It’s time to start thinking about what’s next

Each wind turbine embodies a whole lot of petrochemicals and fossil-fuel energy

Before Nissan shut it down, the NissanConnect EV app allowed anyone to remotely mess with your Leaf

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Applications including "smart" athletic shoes and advanced instrumentation look feasible

Intelsat 1, the first commercial telecom satellite, could relay 240 phone calls at once

Some carriers aim to have fully-realized next-generation service available in time for the 2020 Summer Olympics

The metal-air battery carries more energy per kilogram than today’s lithium-ion batteries

Tiltbrush could be a game changer for virtual reality

Can the social web serve as ID? Is biometric identification over? Do we need new, national IDs?

A new study suggests full automation could mean more efficiencies but also more emissions

No government regulation or check-list can make space tourism safe

Zap&Go expects to have the portable charger for sale this year

Physicists use particles called muons to map the melted nuclear cores

Sensor fusion and integrated MEMS are essential tools for today’s athletes

Design Squad Global follows on the success of reality TV series Design Squad

If you need your data to last billions of years, this quartz disc might be the answer

The founder of Boston Dynamics describes how his team built one of the most advanced humanoids ever