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NASA's Olympex mission vets the GPM weather satellite—with a little help from humble beasts of burden

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A proper mix of full and half duplex cells will maintain high-quality coverage and deliver greater spectrum efficiency

Six month's worth of beta-testing is showing what works and what needs tweaking

OpenBike says their pedal-charged battery and in-bike network should be standard equipment

The TrashBot aims to prevent recycling mistakes by doing the sorting

A lawsuit over the Android operating system could adversely affect how companies write and release software

Doctors don the glasses to virtually bring off-site specialists to bedsides, and even the front lines of a disaster

The CTO of Japan’s largest mobile carrier is on a mission to dispel these misconceptions

An artificial nervous system could help robots avoid damaging interactions

New method exploits the luminescence of carbon nanotubes to detect tumors deep inside tissue

Startup Machina says gamers need connected clothing to be fully immersed in virtual reality

Wireless experts will need to find a “sweet spot” between intragroup message reliability and data age

To win a competition, a Georgia Tech student devised a fuel-cell plane to rival today’s best-selling small aircraft

Candy-bar-sized device could produce solar and wind power from city rooftops

Simulations show the potential for wider problems, because of natural gas dependence and poor understanding of feedback effects between the two systems

Simulations show the potential for wider problems, because of natural gas dependence and poor understanding of feedback effects between the two systems

Indeed Prime reports on tech talent deficits across the U.S.; DevOps engineers in highest demand

Companies go to great lengths to lock us out from our own stuff

In 2012, low quality turbines and delayed grid connections wasted as much of China’s wind power potential as forced outages. But today’s picture could be quite different

Not every personal product should join the Internet of Things

The HoloLens Development Edition shines despite rough edges

The best robot videos of the week, ICRA edition

Startup Courtmatics hopes its smart dampener makes it easier—and cheaper—for tennis players to quantify their strokes

Tin is good and antimony is bad, but together they're perfect for the electrodes of magnesium-ion batteries

Watch-Bot will never let you forget to put the milk back in the fridge

Long-Haul trucking offers robots a particularly good target

The Liv Smart Bracelet is likely to lead off a wave of motion-tracking products that do far more than count steps

Hack a vintage Casio keyboard synthesizer to create sounds that its designers never dreamed of

With lower power consumption comes clock speeds two orders of magnitude faster

We'll need new efficiencies in home heating and insulation to counteract thermal pollution

Moves closer to theoretical limit

A robotic tobacco hawkmoth joins Harvard's collection of artificial insects

Vlad Zamfir is helping Ethereum make a world where any exchange can happen using blockchains. And he's really worried about it

U.S. federal agency awards $200,000 to BACtrack Skyn wearable alcohol sensor

This chatty humanoid is finally coming to America

A new aggressive control algorithm helps this self-driving car drift around a dirt track at 30 kilometers per hour

A plastic band with zipper teeth can interlock into a cylindrical robotic arm

While self-healing conductors have been a leading research focus, there's now a self-healing dielectric material

With the "Aware" earbuds, quantified selfers can add brain-tracking data to their quantified lives

Implanted electrodes make this haptic hand feel like the real deal

A customized computer model showing a heart's unique pattern of electrical activity can guide medical intervention

A leisurely push on the pedal gets a biker of a certain age up to truly steroidal speeds

New study suggest wearing a body camera may put police in greater danger of assault

The best robotics research from the largest IEEE robotics conference

New 3-D printing technique combines direct ink writing with a laser to build structures in midair

The electronic tattoo gets a wearable power pack

Edward Snowden's revelations may have tightened the NSA's leash, but the agency can still request tens of thousands of records for each case

Quantum mechanics help perovskites perform well in fuel cells

Everyone want to supply the brains to tomorrow's cars—because that's where the money is