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30 years after the Challenger disaster, space agencies and private companies alike must guard against the greatest threat: complacency

There’s a word for when the machines in your life seem to be out to get you: Resistentialism

From the archives: NASA’s resistance to probabilistic risk analysis contributed to the Challenger disaster

How you look at a robot and how it looks at you can make you more comfortable

Researchers integrated 70 million transistors and 850 optical components into a silicon processor using standard chipmaking tricks

The prime contender is Ann Arbor, Michigan which has one thing Mountain View lacks: snow

Food waste begins on the farm and doesn't stop on our dinner plates. But we can easily cut that waste in half

Plastic sensor array combined with flexible silicon IC accurately measures several biomarkers in sweat

Google DeepMind's program defeats a pro, meeting a Grand Challenge of AI years earlier than expected

Lily Robotics is making a drone for people who would never buy a drone. And the company is flying high

New processes promise bigger, cheaper, and more complex circuits

Nanofibers enable pressure sensor-based glove

Soft robotic fingers help scientists collect deep sea specimens

Transistors with compound-semiconductor nanowires could consume less power than today’s silicon FinFETs

Transistors with compound-semiconductor nanowires could consume less power than today’s silicon FinFETs

Metal 3-D printing is due for disruption, and Velo3D might be looking to do just that

With short-term memory, recurrent neural networks gain some amazing abilities

After decades of exponential growth, fiber-optic capacity may be facing a plateau

Techies with cloud and database chops were the big winners in 2015, according to Dice survey

Teleoperation and in-situ materials are how robots will prepare the moon and Mars for our arrival

Floating plants are eco-friendly, space efficient, and require no civil engineering

The simulation found that a national network of HVDC transmission lines in combination with mostly solar and wind energy could lower both electricity prices and carbon emissions

A study of mobile health apps' impact on health care costs represents a limited but crucial step for assessing digital medicine

A long-lived game series is revived, joining other titles that eschew fancy graphics

Turns out you can measure the capacitance of a bee

A wide range of materials for which 2-D versions were unavailable can now be made atomically thin with new technique

New battery has much more power and a longer cycle life than any current rechargeable battery

Quick-charging devices might finally match lead-acid batteries for energy storage

Energous has made substantial progress towards consumer wireless power, but will we see it in devices this year?

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

The stakes are so high decision-makers have become paralyzed

Combining metamaterials with plasmonic components could tip the scale in the future of photonic circuits

How one developing country is navigating its way into the space age

The threat of failure hangs over efforts to solve big, multidimensional engineering challenges, but that shouldn’t stop us from trying

Advance May Help Support High-Altitude Drones, Space Exploration

New tunable properties open up applications in telecommunications and replacing X-rays for scanners

Open-source, Internet-assisted farming aims for a new green revolution

A robot team of a UAV and a UGV carry out dangerous recon missions so that you don't have to

Her intelligent clothing relies on sensors and smarts to react to its wearer and the environment

Separating hydrogen from carbon dioxide efficiently may help sidestep the nagging hydrogen storage problem

Researchers create vapor bubbles to pull particles of solution and down to a substrate

It takes an indestructible drone to explore these dangerous glacial crevasses

Putting autonomous vehicles on the road isn’t just a matter of fine-tuning the technology

Extracting fuel rods is too dangerous for humans, but not for this floating dual-arm robot

Transient electronics monitor pressure and temperature for five days and then disappear

Sierra Nevada Corp. joins SpaceX and Orbital ATK in $14-billion ISS resupply program

The 10-year government proposal aims to make state laws about self-driving cars consistent nationally

Smart pill can "smell" our intestinal gases and tell whether we're sick

Nanocomposite film enables miniaturized circularly polarized light detector

A prototype of a wireless sensor patch harvests your body heat to power itself