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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

With $200-million overhaul complete, scientists are looking for ripples in the fabric of space-time

Silicon for the smarts, but stomach acid for the power

U.S. regulators may fine Volkswagen billions of dollars after discovering software designed to cheat official emissions testing

Show's first episode points out the pitfalls of a boys-only tech world

Computer models are becoming more attuned to human fear during crowd evacuations

If carbyne can be synthesized in bulk, its unusual properties could be a boon to nanoelectronics

Several research groups are creating algorithms that make carpooling a more personalized experience

Tiny, energy-efficient, homes are bucking the trend toward bigger and bigger houses

Your weekly injection of steaming hot robot videos

The Mr. Robot television series has some real world imitators

This is the science fiction movie you’ve been waiting for

Electric racing returns next month with new power trains and other improvements

Will digitizing taste lead to a Pepsi-clone made out of “kale and pine nuts”?

Graphene-based 3-D printing filament may trigger an explosion of printing electronics and circuitry

Robotic teleoperation means we can explore places where it's too difficult to send fragile, needy humans

In one integrated design and print process, you can now create objects with a suite of embedded sensors

System could help reduce your energy footprint

Smarter driving by autonomous features could save $1,800 in battery costs for a Tesla electric car

14-year old Texas youth arrested for bringing homebrew electronics to school