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A prototype of gaming system aims to improve behavioral skills of autistic children

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One of the world’s longest undersea HVDC cables and other new transmission links will end reliance on Russian energy

An adhesive with its hardness controlled by electricity can be used underwater, or in human tissue.

Researchers overcome some of the final issues with solar windows, opening the way to commercial roll out

Slight tweaks to acceleration and deceleration can make a huge difference to robot energy consumption

Nanomagnet computers could consume one-tenth the power of today’s microprocessors

At school and at work, women with mentors are more likely to succeed

This is one of the most confidently brisk picking robots we've ever seen

New production technique makes full array of 2-D materials available for real-world applications

Demography is destiny, and Japan’s population is getting too old for the country’s economic health

A fuel cell that can power a smartphone for a week sounds great in theory, but in practice, you probably only care if you live in India

Will solar cells much thinner than a human hair power future planes?

The AI Impacts project estimates computer hardware could match the human brain in four to seven years

A fixed-wing drone that can lift off vertically has its advantages, but who needs one?

User-friendly interfaces give operators critical context

Visible light communication could reduce interference with medical equipment

Sandia National Laboratory will host a turbine that can improve energy efficiency by 40 percent

How history forgot this pioneer of the traveling-wave tube

A cubic kilometer-sized neutrino detector buried deep in Antarctic ice has confirmed the discovery of mysterious ultra-high energy neutrinos

Scalable manufacturing process could lead to new generation of LED lighting

The Alibi Routing network can show whether your Internet data crosses certain international borders

Researchers devise antennas that can be lengthened—or shortened—to adjust their frequency

Mathematical models applied to biology could also help islanded power grids

When you're at the peak of the hype cycle, there's just one way to go--down. Then you bounce back again.

Learning algorithms may have a mind of their own

A Kit Connects a Microcontroller to the Cloud

Catalyst Can Work in Water

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Teams are keen, but some pitchers see a downside to the data

Google pushes back its modular Ara smartphone's first real-world debut until 2016

Banning autonomous weapons would be much more complicated than advocates have suggested

So far the organizing principles of nanoinformatics focus on the environmental impact of nanomaterials

Shows about engineers are finding an audience

The sharing economy needs machine intelligence to set prices

Documents show the Silicon Valley giant hopes to test its own self-driving cars at a naval weapons station

But will all this data have any impact on policy?

An opponent of the BitcoinXT proposal lays out all the bad outcomes for us

Leafcutter ants and other insects have evolved specialized cooperative behaviors, and now robots have too

How technology complicates the end of life

Portable system can identify explosives and toxins

An electronic vehicle immobilizer used in popular car models has proven vulnerable to hackers with laptops

Reactor pools are where no humans want to go for a swim, so we're sending robots instead

New layering method for 2-D materials offers new possibilities for tuning material properties for various applications

Gadgets let families monitor their elderly relations without invading privacy

Google's new solar energy calculator provides a simple answer to a tricky question

Tiny, fully implantable LED device can activate brain cells as mice scamper around

Prototype transistors of both the types needed for CMOS can be made by adjusting the material's thickness

Superfast simulation would allow regions to trade higher electricity costs for reduced healthcare costs