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Before building a vacuum train tube from L.A. to San Francisco, proponents must succeed with an 8-kilometer test track

In Ford’s Palo Alto Research Center, researchers are using video game systems to speed up the way autonomous vehicle software learns

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Understanding the experiences of adult transfer students from community colleges could help STEM

The first demonstration of boron-based borophene reveals a conductive material that could outperform graphene

Supercapacitors finally on par with lead-acid batteries for energy storage, could drive an electric bus 25 kilometers

The two companies partnered to create a robotics-focused surgical startup

Delusional estimates for time and cost plague large IT projects

Google counters by wooing British regulators and setting up a ride-sharing business

In a cutthroat market for autonomous vehicle experts, Ford's CEO Mark Shields says it’s doing just fine. (But is still hiring)

In the iron economy, you'd retrofit coal plants to burn iron powder, then recycle it using renewable energy

World leaders set a high bar for climate action, striking a deal in Paris that well exceeds their action plans. But transparency, verification and peer pressure could close the gap

Nauto retrofits cars with connectivity, machine learning and safety systems

You have 30 days to register your personal drone online before the FAA starts charging a fee

Despite metal-like conductivity, this new class of materials has high optical transparency

An expensive new Roomba with features and performance to match

Crystals plus infrared beams bring water to near zero

Mercedes and Hyundai hope they'll be able to send their new autonomous vehicles out on demo drives

Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman and others believe the world needs noncommercial AI research—and they’re hiring

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Engineers soup up off-the-shelf robots to new standards of accuracy

Nanopillars on the surface of photovoltaics are becoming a trend for allowing in more photons

What happens when you eliminate test and QA? Fewer errors and faster development, say Yahoo’s tech leaders

Starting in 2018, U.S. vehicle safety ratings will account for technologies meant to keep cars from crashing

Computer can not only write as well as humans, but invent new symbols

Study finds that 40% of PhDs go to industry and boost economic growth

A report published by NREL found that more than half of energy capacity added in the US in 2014 was renewable

Two education startups look to personalize online help for math and science classes

Will porous semiconductors lead to more efficient photovoltaic cells and lithium-ion batteries?

It may be possible to create digital clones of anyone

New advance could also lead to chips that can smell, taste

Startup piggybacks on social media to make learning-to-code girl-friendly

New analytical approaches turn low-amplitude seismic data into insights about this world and others

The U.S. version of 007's Q branch hopes IBM can take the next big step toward universal quantum computing

Adding some small twists to chemical vapor deposition makes a hexagonal boron nitride that could make the perfect substrate for graphene

Study for the SAT, learn another language, or sound like a cowboy when you send text messages

When self-driving cars become street legal, a world full of old cars will become ripe for retrofitting

Being programmable through headphones could keep Canny relevant for decades

Stalker and K-MAX talk to air traffic control to safely operate while detecting and dousing fires

Among the challenges: competing with Facebook and Google, and figuring out how to integrate commercial technology into space programs

Laser light and special sensors let a camera see around a corner with centimeter precision

One cable to rule them all, and it’ll be optical in 2016

Researchers continue to refine the process for producing laser-induced graphene that promises big changes in energy storage

This group of geriatric engineers probably can’t stop global warming—but maybe they can cool down a few hot spots

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Will sodium replace lithium as the material of choice for rechargeable batteries?

Can more R&D dollars deliver a clean energy future faster?