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Did microwave ovens lead astronomers astray?

Report says the driver assist market will increase by a factor of fifty over the next two decades

This consumer camera drone can shoot stable video without a gimbal

Goldman Sachs jumps in on a 50 million dollar funding round for Circle, a Boston-based Bitcoin startup.

As incomes rise, so does the demand for cooling. Can developing world grids handle it?

The country’s huge expansion into solar, wind, and other renewables has not been entirely smooth

Denmark, Portugal, and Spain have all made a rapid transition away from fossil fuels for electricity, but each in a different way

The Blue Origin spaceflight firm funded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos held a first test flight of its New Shepard space vehicle

Feast your eyes on this teaser from the upcoming Bond movie

Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg have been reproduced in wax—who should be next? Time to vote

Today we have two weeks of robots videos for you

Replacing magnets with light to detect electron spin offers new possibilities for "spintronics'

As the stakes got higher and higher, semiconductor specialists performed the near impossible to keep the winning streak alive

The Energy Department's first comprehensive hydropower assessment shows steady growth and plenty of headroom, especially for pumped hydro energy storage

Facts that are often overlooked when Moore’s Law is discussed

To figure out how stone tools were used millions of years ago, archaeologists are turning to robots

In a six-month trial run, this robot made over 1,000 deliveries in busy hotel

The TeNet group cofounder creates telecom, banking, and electricity systems to lift up underserved communities

Jeremy Bailenson looks to virtual reality's future based on lessons from two decades of research

Classified DARPA technology allows bullets to follow your directions after you fire them

Only vigilance and ingenuity stand between Earth and oblivion

Novel manufacturing process brings uniform 2-D films to the wafer scale

SAP's Sports One combines on-field performance analysis software, with fan engagement and business operations support, in a single unified system

A study predicts that cities will be dramatically changed when no one drives to work and few people have their own cars

The privately funded space telescope will hunt for objects on a collision course with Earth

This pair of robots is ready to take over in warehouses, autonomously picking and delivering goods

IBM's four-qubit array is the first to detect both types of quantum computing errors

Oculus Story Studio founders take inspiration from films, games, and live theater to do VR storytelling

Researchers develop a more refined process for making holes in graphene that promises greater charge capacity for supercapacitors

Electronics made from nanoscale tubes, wires, and sheets of carbon are coming, thanks to pioneering researcher Mildred Dresselhaus

"You feel like you are transported somewhere else in the real world"

Microparticles could zip inside fluid to generate hydrogen gas

A hunt for the very first time the term was used

Gas pockets and short circuits can destroy battery innards during thermal runaway

In the 1960s, microelectronics were often unreliable

A free phone app warns you when a red light is about to turn green

A photovoltaic device implanted in the retina will be tested in humans next year

Google, Facebook, activate people finder tools

A Silicon Valley company sets out to prove that earthquake-warning systems can easy to set up, effective, and cheap enough for Nepal

New photonic process would help eliminate the need for 3-D glasses

Economics killed small nuclear power plants in the past—and probably will keep doing so

Prehistoric killer used low frequency sounds to follow its prey's footsteps

What will it take to unlock high-tech farming?

Mid-air engine retrieval will be necessary to make ULA's new launch system competitive with SpaceX

A home-brew programmer for the low-power Membership Card microcomputer

Cars that take deliveries can get around the "last hundred meters" shipping problem

Your weekly dose of robot videos is here

A Japanese startup is betting that an aging population of tech savvy first adopters will want their super-wheelchair

In the Bay Area this weekend? Want to experience a hackathon at Facebook? It’s not too late to Code for Cuba

By shifting focus from neural nodes to networks, engineers can build better brain-computer interfaces