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“Someday you’ll be a star!” promised this 1968 Western Electric ad

Some of the most sophisticated machines ever built end their life as scrap

How an engineer re-jiggered a 3D printer and its factory to streamline production

A Kindle and a Raspberry Pi make for a impressive display of maps and distance

A tiny robot shows how water striders can jump without sinking

Property of CNT-based speakers producing sound through heat could prove useful in heating applications

An ultrafast light-emitting device that can flip on and off 90 billion times a second could help computers operate even faster

Jets, rockets, and computer models will help a British team break 1,600 km/h

We are too quick to chase wild and crazy innovation and too slow to implement obvious, practical ideas

Details on exactly what it is are vague

They don't always need to come to a full stop, and they sometimes should exceed the speed limit

Hybrid materials could boost photovoltaic efficiencies by 30 percent or more

Programmable panels turn a classical instrument into a video screen

What we really need is a way of making autonomous armed robots ethical, because we’re not going to be able to prevent them from existing

At a NASA Convention, Workhorse Group presents its plan to have drones drop packages at your door

Amazon urges FAA to create a drone zone, separating drones within it by speed and capabilities.

Discovery holds important implications for the future of spintronics in enabling high-speed, low-power computing

We need new words to describe the coming wave of machine-generated information

Wireless power transfer is less efficient over distances, but there are remedies

With a little DC wizardry and a lot of cash, we could swap power across continents

If you had a couple of weeks and a robot to program, what would you do?

Lasers that can span the entire color spectrum could speed up Li-Fi and find use in lighting and displays

Circuits with single atoms and molecules: the ultimate of Moore's Law?

Hacking a Moving Jeep Was Evidently Enough To Catch NHTSA's Eye

The range of applications for the fiber, including shape-shifting aircraft and exoskeletons, come right out a comic book

Thirty years ago, the Amiga computer launched at Lincoln Center. Count me among its fans who are remembering and celebrating

The week's best robot videos

Major League Baseball teams hope the mThrow’s instant data analysis will improve performance and prevent injuries

Old generators prop up voltage for regions rich in renewables

How to get more women overseeing tech companies? Start by making a list

Charge makes glass moves between light, dark, and "cool" modes

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Researchers can leverage pop culture to talk about their projects

We can't drill 5 kilometers down to tap geothermal energy, but we may be able to get there with a really big gun

A robot powered by turbulence might be the best way to explore gas giants

Web applications could increase security by keeping data encrypted even during computations

Of course, it's staged, and Jeep has now issued a security patch. But it shows how full of holes automated autos can be

Refueling and repairing satellites in orbit could drastically lower costs, and NASA is working to make it happen

Mildred Dresselhaus, Daktari Diagnostics, O3b Networks Honored

Instead of either Internet or TV in UHF channels, how about both?

An unprecedented effort backed by a Russian billionaire will search the Milky Way galaxy for signals from alien civilizations

Plants could provide abundant sustainable materials for lithium-ion batteries

Segmented structure could help electrons flow in future chips

A spaceplane that uses ground-based microwave power as an energy source could be a very efficient way of launching satellites

Growing polycrystalline materials on a non-wetting surface increases grain size

Physical robots mutate and crossbreed to evolve towards the most efficient mobility genome

Track your dog’s behavior with this smart collar

New wrinkle promises to expand nanowire uses in optoelectronics

Solar fuel cells made of nanowires beat their non-nano predecessors

The first spacecraft of the asteroid-mining venture Planetary Resources will test technologies for future space missions