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Foam and bubble wrap help concentrate heat without mirrors or lenses

NanoRacks explains why rocket upper stages should get a second life as space habitats instead of having them burn up in the atmosphere

Festo's chief pilot gives us a private demo of its eMotionButterfly, AirJelly, and AirPenguin

Soil bacteria modified to conduct 2000 times as much electricity as that in untreated dirt

The life blood of a new room-temperature laser is a green fluorescent protein from jellyfish

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Humidity and rain cause their own form of interference

A faster conversion from blue light to red and green light leads to a 20-fold increase in data transmission speeds

Uber and Volvo are putting 100 cars on the road faster than anyone had expected

Audits of renowned neuroscientist's electrical stimulation studies uncover problems

Computer models combine daytime satellite images, nightlights, and survey data to estimate poverty levels

Warning: All projections for the Internet of Things are subject to change

The company that makes the best (and most expensive) lidar systems gets a huge pile of cash to make them cheap enough for cars

The vehicles are the second stage in robo-bus development, following an earlier test on less-traveled roads

The competition starts with teams operating a robot in a simulated Martian dust storm

Molybdenum sulfide's optical properties shorten a water purification process from days to minutes

Inspired by mountain goats, this novel robotic leg could result in robots that move in completely new ways

Kernel wants to build a neural implant based on neuroscientist Ted Berger's memory research

The mission will test quantum links—in principle unhackable—between space and the ground

And many other brands are vulnerable to another hack, researchers say

Abundant Robotics is sucking apples right off the tree

No need for range anxiety: most EV drivers would manage on a given day, and a quarter would have no trouble in an entire year

Engineering chops merge with first-person-view flying in the exhilarating mixed reality sport of drone racing

So-called click reactions using copper as a catalyst no longer need kill QD's key property

Intel's purchase of Nervana gives the tech titan ownership of a specialized chip designed for deep learning

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Researchers can turn 'on' or 'off' the mechanical anisotropy of black phosphorus

Patients regained some voluntary movements. Difficult to say which technology was the key factor

The biocompatible touchpad could one day be implanted into skin

When a transhumanist runs for president, what does that mean for society?

Carrier admits that its original story, blaming a local utility for setting off the chain of events that led to more than 1000 flight cancellations on Monday and Tuesday, was a work of fiction

Locus Robotics founder Bruce Welty explains how his company is developing better warehouse robots from scratch

Industry leaders from around the globe use multiphysics simulation to stay ahead of the curve

FCC documents reveal car maker’s plan for 725-strong fleet

Ultrafast synthesis of high-quality graphene films combined with roll-to-roll processes ushers in a new era in graphene production

A spin switch translates between light and voltage using little power

Solid-state lidar sensors are going to be critical to autonomous vehicles—if they can be made reliable and affordable

The latest robot vacuum from iRobot is $200 cheaper, without sacrificing the features you care about

Hundreds of flight cancellations today are just the latest in a string of airline industry IT problems

It's the most prominent departure yet in the self-driving industry's game of musical chairs

Transient batteries could power military, medical, and environmental devices, then simply melt away

Expert says system calls, but not source code, were copied from CP/M to MS-DOS. But there's $100,000 if you can prove he's wrong

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The team behind the victorious Cyber Reasoning System will receive a US $2 million prize

Every tool a hardware engineer could want—plus swings and a slide

Smaller than a dime and with no moving parts, MIT's lidar-on-a-chip is exactly what cars and robots need

Orbital angular momentum could take optical and radio communication to new heights

For the first time a one-dimensional chain of atoms separate from their two-dimensional substrate leading potentially to greater miniaturization in data storage

Software that can analyze tiny motions in video allows real objects to be dynamically simulated in augmented reality

Athletes have been training for the 2016 Games using tDCS