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With no sensors, motors, or actuators, hot feet are all this robot needs to walk

While conversion efficiencies are still low, a few tweaks could make the first optical rectenna ready for commercial use in photovoltaics

A machine classification system can identify harmful website links on Twitter within seconds of being clicked

Magnetic stripe technology retires today after nearly 50 years on the job, but the chip card may just be a temporary replacement

Nearly 10,000 visitors saw Bloodhound's guts. It's engineers tell us there's still a bit more testing to do

If it can push a spacecraft, engineers are trying to harness it to fly through space

More than a century after the first Mars movie, we finally have a really good one

Watch Andy Weir, author of the adapted novel, discuss the science behind his plot twists

Software engineer turned sci-fi author talks about his hit book and seeing it adapted to the big screen

Engineers fashion ways to survive on Mars

Compact gyroscopes could help astronauts live and work in space

When Fashion Is a Matter of Life or Death

Without any hardware modifications, the Harvard RoboBee learns to land in the water and go for a swim

Google Science Fair finalists create biofuels and a substitute for carbon nanotubes out of chicken feathers

Don't hold your breath waiting for VW to clean up its diesels. Do hold your breath while crossing the street

A safety study finds European cars do better in frontal and side crashes while U.S. cars withstand rollovers better

Portable detectors could be used to determine drug chirality in hospitals and in the field

A $20 million Carbon XPrize funded by big fossil fuel producers and users sets a 4-1/2 year challenge to turn carbon dioxide into value-added products. Could there be more value in reducing emissions at the source?

Maturing tech shows that diesel exhaust in the real world is far higher than what carmakers advertise

The world's most crowded public space could use smart design, technology, and crowd management to prevent disasters, says expert

Will faster transistors revolutionize video?

Health-related projects at 2015 Google Science Fair are not just child’s play

Why the tantalizing promise of replacing silicon with molecular components has yet to be fulfilled

The goal is to build an interconnected network of offshore wind, tidal, and wave energy projects

This week's best robot videos are here!

Atoms-thin flakes of phosphorus have a crucial property that graphene lacks

Case points to the need to move away from a compliance mindset and towards better ethics integration in engineering education

Researchers discover new mechanism by which graphene dissipates heat between its layers

New metasurface could point the way toward practical computing

The company's collaborative robot is now available for purchase and being deployed in factories around the world

Will splitting water with solar energy become part of the hydrogen economy?

Experiments with robot babies reveal that when a baby smiles at you, it's trying to get you to smile back

A new cyber defense strategy aims to protect the most vulnerable Navy ship systems against hackers

Aaaand another basic human skill bites the dust

These stealthy subatomic particles could someday be used to see across national borders

This robot can take just about whatever you want to just about wherever you want it

A computer program builds on human expertise to make 3-D printed heart models from MRI scans

Researchers discover how to tune the carbon-capture capacity of nanotubes

Deep in the woods in Maryland, the U.S. Army is testing exoskeletons that can lighten the load that soldiers carry

Jim O’Sullivan and Julius Rix demonstrate the essential qualities of resourcefulness and endurance

Volvo wants robots to help bringing trashcans to garbage trucks, which sounds like a great idea except that it may not be

An attempt to understand VW's clean diesel tech instead uncovered one of history's greatest corporate cybercrimes

The U.S. Naval Observatory tests a ground-based GPS alternative that could work in crowded cities and even underground

Can electromagnetic theory still surprise us?

I don't trust robots this much, but at ETH Zurich, they're crazy enough to put their lives in the hands of a team of quadrotors

A new coating lets solar panels cool themselves while producing even more energy