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Turns out plasmonic internferometers don't need a coherent light source to take measurements

Deciphering how brains and machines think and learn

It keeps proper time and comes with an off switch, making this robotic third arm infinitely better than a human drummer

Luke Skywalker, your new hand is ready

New material promises to lead to 2-D complementary logic circuits

Scientists make a qubit at the sharp edges within a silicon nanowire transistor

Tesla partners with Radio Flyer to make a $499 Model S, and the sidewalks of Silicon Valley will never be the same

An adaptive plug-in hybrid system can use driving data to make consumption of electric and fossil fuel power more efficient

Entire slabs of a new material can be as invisible to certain electromagnetic signals as air

A huge study on how humans and computers see objects could inspire better artificial intelligence

Its new set of gaming developer tools may represent a play for the emerging markets of e-sports and virtual reality

Novel design forces photons to strongly interact with a qubit in a solid-state device

Researchers hope to turn smartphones into a crowdsourced seismic monitoring network

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The Coursera founder discusses his new gig as head of Baidu Research, Baidu’s autonomous vehicle project, and hiring plans

New tunneling junction transistor design for thin-film transistors boosts power-handling capabilities ten times

Confidence in this first detection comes from many sensors—and a lot of computation

Despite the FBI's claims, a growing number of everyday household objects provide access points for eavesdropping on suspected criminals

Nanomaterial looks to buoy the prospects of lithium-metal batteries

Hint: He's the one person in history whose backing Tesla Motors would most desire

The country’s peaceful intentions were questionable in 2012, and they still are

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A new way to sell high tech hardware debuts in Palo Alto, Calif.

The budding carmaker is investigating technology for plugless recharging its EVs

A chip designed to run powerful neural networks for image analysis uses one-tenth the energy a mobile GPU would

High-power transistors and switches for the next-generation power grid could be a step closer

The popular robotics simulator gets a bunch of new features

Using the sun to change easy to store chemicals into usable hydrogen is getting more efficient

Will stellarators outperform tokamaks one day?

The innate speed limit of electrons in atoms could limit future optoelectronics

Real-time genetic surveillance during the Ebola outbreak offers lessons for Zika virus response

Their pod design floats on magnets and moves very fast; but if they build it, will passengers come?

Plasmonics enable wavelengths of light to shrink to the nanometer scale

Yahoo’s chief architect answers a few questions about the company’s move to eliminate QA

A robot shuttle bus carrying six passengers and no driver conducted its first trial run

The U.S. Army is testing supply airdrops that can guide themselves based on ground images rather than GPS

Graphene coating reduces cracking of silicon-based anodes in Li-ion batteries

Historian W. Patrick McCray tracks down Malina’s kinetic sculpture Cosmos to a locked storage room in Oxford

Most borrow the boilerplate used in standard "clickwrap" e-commerce contracts, but few prevent a customer's data from being sold—or the terms of the contract from being amended without notice.

Goods zipping along underground in little robot cars would clear trucks off of congested Swiss roads

Attack eagles are training to become part of the Dutch National Police anti-drone arsenal

Basketball spawns a grandchild of football’s virtual first down line, and it debuts Saturday

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Val Monticue goes to Antarctica to help fix a telescope—and tests some high tech gear for educators

Watch this concrete slab melt ice

A gas pedal that communicates with you through vibration offers improved safety, fuel economy, and foot massages

Vertical orientation of polymer chains could change the game in OLEDs and organic solar cells

How the rollout of UHF television in 1951 led to “the shot heard ’round the world”

Another entrant in the wireless charging field says it will have a smart-home product by late 2016

Impressive though the engineering may be, the big-battery EV is simply not economical