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The device that will realize Oxford Nanopore's grand vision to read the world in DNA

A mysterious power surge is taking out the electrical propulsion systems on random BART trains; 50 cars hit yesterday

IBM combines "top-down" and "bottom-up" manufacturing to usher a new approach to electronics manufacturing

Researchers propose vehicular cloud using cars in parking lots as ad hoc data centers

ETH Zurich spin-off Aerotain has created the most agile balloon you’ve ever seen

SCAMP is a quadrotor with legs that can perch on walls and then climb up them with spiny little feet

Zapping the brain during therapy has long-lasting effects for stroke rehabilitation

This $200 robot is designed to mop and sweep hard floors

Back in 1993, a physicist named Judah Levine had a bright idea: distributing time over the Internet

Durability and resiliency are the watchwords in the face of power outages, spotty connectivity, and schoolkids

Security experts say hospitals aren't adequately protected from constant cyber attacks

Researchers at the UK's NGI won't work at the new facilty for fear that their research will be pilfered

If some drivers are willing to take a few extra minutes getting where they need to go, most drivers will save time on their commutes

Vertical take off and landing comes to fixed-wing UAVs

The AI owes its success to self-training deep neural networks, which can, in principle, be applied to other domains. Like your job.

It spent a fortune, but that doesn't mean there's a tech bubble brewing

Wrist biosensors accurately detect drug use, and someday could anticipate when a relapse will occur

A basic limit has been measured for a real-world bit; now how to reach it?

Gold nanoparticles are chemically modified to form flexible devices for wearables

Spectrum's new biomedical engineering blog will chronicle bold attempts to understand and debug the human body

The futuristic diagnostic device from Star Trek still belongs to the future

The futuristic diagnostic device from Star Trek still belongs to the future

Implanted electrical devices may be better medicine than pills and drugs, says GSK bigwig

Implanted electrical devices may be better medicine than pills and drugs, says GSK bigwig

Technique promises metamaterials that have both finely tuned magnetic properties and reconfigurable device architectures

Fans of the Amiga computer turned to social media to react to the death of Dave Needle, one of its creators

An MIT spinout is developing self-driving cars for use in autonomous-only urban zones

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The agency invites both professionals and hobbyists to submit their most dangerous ideas

Sony hopes to catch the wave with its optical jukebox for data storage

New technique serves as a call to arms for identifying source of frequency jitters in nanoresonators

Dreadnoughtus schrani was one of the largest animals ever to exist, and 3D-printed legs are figuring out how it walked

Why heat or cool a whole building when you could heat or cool individual people instead?

The Slovak Republic will "explore" building a superfast vac-train from Bratislava to Vienna and Budapest

Some sources see moves to offshore U.S. jobs to India and elsewhere

Google's AI makes history by beating Korea's Lee Sedol, the best Go player in the world

Nanomanufacturers now have a tool for testing electrical properties of materials in roll-to-roll processing

The technique could offer a non-invasive alternative to optogenetics.

Emotional behaviors can make your drone seem like it's an adventurer, anti-social, or maybe just exhausted

It's been two years since Malaysia Air vanished without trace, and now we have a trace. With the right system, we could have tracked its every move

NASA aims to improve space weather forecasting by better simulating solar storm effects on the Earth's geomagnetic field

AAA survey finds that both the old and young are wary of self-driving cars, but they also want some of the benefits

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A transparent and flexible photodetector made from graphene and quantum dots demonstrates its capabilities

Whole medical implants could dissolve in the body

Will computer modeling and meteorological data allow high-accuracy location of nuclear leaks?

Fraunhofer's headlights use an array of individually addressable LEDs to efficiently illuminate only the parts of the road you care about

Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman remain dedicated to sticky issues at the intersection of technology and society

For engineers, Silicon Valley is turning into a starter community—a good place to kick off a career, but not a place to put down roots

A tech startup aims to spread the wealth of deep learning AI to many industries