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Using the sun to change easy to store chemicals into usable hydrogen is getting more efficient

Will stellarators outperform tokamaks one day?

The innate speed limit of electrons in atoms could limit future optoelectronics

Real-time genetic surveillance during the Ebola outbreak offers lessons for Zika virus response

Their pod design floats on magnets and moves very fast; but if they build it, will passengers come?

Plasmonics enable wavelengths of light to shrink to the nanometer scale

Yahoo’s chief architect answers a few questions about the company’s move to eliminate QA

A robot shuttle bus carrying six passengers and no driver conducted its first trial run

The U.S. Army is testing supply airdrops that can guide themselves based on ground images rather than GPS

Graphene coating reduces cracking of silicon-based anodes in Li-ion batteries

Historian W. Patrick McCray tracks down Malina’s kinetic sculpture Cosmos to a locked storage room in Oxford

Most borrow the boilerplate used in standard "clickwrap" e-commerce contracts, but few prevent a customer's data from being sold—or the terms of the contract from being amended without notice.

Goods zipping along underground in little robot cars would clear trucks off of congested Swiss roads

Attack eagles are training to become part of the Dutch National Police anti-drone arsenal

Basketball spawns a grandchild of football’s virtual first down line, and it debuts Saturday

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

Val Monticue goes to Antarctica to help fix a telescope—and tests some high tech gear for educators

Watch this concrete slab melt ice

A gas pedal that communicates with you through vibration offers improved safety, fuel economy, and foot massages

Vertical orientation of polymer chains could change the game in OLEDs and organic solar cells

How the rollout of UHF television in 1951 led to “the shot heard ’round the world”

Another entrant in the wireless charging field says it will have a smart-home product by late 2016

Impressive though the engineering may be, the big-battery EV is simply not economical

30 years after the Challenger disaster, space agencies and private companies alike must guard against the greatest threat: complacency

There’s a word for when the machines in your life seem to be out to get you: Resistentialism

From the archives: NASA’s resistance to probabilistic risk analysis contributed to the Challenger disaster

How you look at a robot and how it looks at you can make you more comfortable

Researchers integrated 70 million transistors and 850 optical components into a silicon processor using standard chipmaking tricks

The prime contender is Ann Arbor, Michigan which has one thing Mountain View lacks: snow

Food waste begins on the farm and doesn't stop on our dinner plates. But we can easily cut that waste in half

Plastic sensor array combined with flexible silicon IC accurately measures several biomarkers in sweat

Google DeepMind's program defeats a pro, meeting a Grand Challenge of AI years earlier than expected

Lily Robotics is making a drone for people who would never buy a drone. And the company is flying high

New processes promise bigger, cheaper, and more complex circuits

Nanofibers enable pressure sensor-based glove

Soft robotic fingers help scientists collect deep sea specimens

Transistors with compound-semiconductor nanowires could consume less power than today’s silicon FinFETs

Transistors with compound-semiconductor nanowires could consume less power than today’s silicon FinFETs

Metal 3-D printing is due for disruption, and Velo3D might be looking to do just that

With short-term memory, recurrent neural networks gain some amazing abilities

After decades of exponential growth, fiber-optic capacity may be facing a plateau

Techies with cloud and database chops were the big winners in 2015, according to Dice survey

Teleoperation and in-situ materials are how robots will prepare the moon and Mars for our arrival

Floating plants are eco-friendly, space efficient, and require no civil engineering

The simulation found that a national network of HVDC transmission lines in combination with mostly solar and wind energy could lower both electricity prices and carbon emissions

A study of mobile health apps' impact on health care costs represents a limited but crucial step for assessing digital medicine

A long-lived game series is revived, joining other titles that eschew fancy graphics

Turns out you can measure the capacitance of a bee

A wide range of materials for which 2-D versions were unavailable can now be made atomically thin with new technique

New battery has much more power and a longer cycle life than any current rechargeable battery