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A new study suggests full automation could mean more efficiencies but also more emissions

No government regulation or check-list can make space tourism safe

Zap&Go expects to have the portable charger for sale this year

Physicists use particles called muons to map the melted nuclear cores

Sensor fusion and integrated MEMS are essential tools for today’s athletes

Design Squad Global follows on the success of reality TV series Design Squad

If you need your data to last billions of years, this quartz disc might be the answer

The founder of Boston Dynamics describes how his team built one of the most advanced humanoids ever

The U.S. government eyes cryogenically cooled circuitry for tomorrow's exascale computers

Biomimicry is delivering novel surface designs that manipulate water to boost the performance of everything from power plants and refrigerators to wind turbines

Diverse teams of cybersecurity mavens come up with surprisingly similar approaches to IoT security

Will these satellites catch thunderbolts on Jupiter?

Britain's Ansible Motion builds simulators that put eyes, hands, and inner ear in full synch

The latest ATLAS is by far the most advanced humanoid robot in existence

For first time, flexible, mechanically tunable, dielectric resonators are developed for metasurfaces

Some 240 million people in India don’t have electricity. Can illiterate village women solve the problem with off-grid solar power?

Will future exascale supercomputers be able to withstand the steady onslaught of routine faults?

Mitsubishi says it has finished the robot that will install the Thirty Meter Telescope's huge mirrors

Mitsubishi says its finished the robot that will install and replace the Thirty Meter Telescope's huge mirrors

A huge driving behavior study found phones to be the single factor responsible for the largest increase in car crashes

Membrane wings show promise for highly efficient micro air vehicles

For first time, Japanese researchers have observed “zero” electrical resistivity in graphene

New algorithms make CRISPR as easy as point-and-click

Duke researchers estimated that implanting energy and transportation policies that would reduce carbon emissions to the goals set in Paris could prevent 295,000 premature deaths and have an economic benefit of $250 billion

Mobile device forensics experts weigh in

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The RS-UV3 lets you build your own Arduino- or Raspberry Pi–based radio

Artificial skin made from paper, aluminum foil, and sponges could lead to new wearable electronics and robots that feel

A dynamic spatial water membrane can create moving shapes out of a splash

Low-power, multichannel listening device could put computers closer to perceiving the world the way we do

Superprecise standard masses are on their way to Paris for a critical weigh-in

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