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Happy Birthday Hubble!
After 25 years and a tumultuous life, Hubble is still going strong
NASA Uses Mars Rover Tech to Design the Perfect Urban Car
The Modular Robotic Vehicle can drive in any direction and doesn't even need you behind the wheel
3-D Printed Graphene Aerogels Could Improve Sensors and Batteries
Using 3-D to manufacture predetermined architectures for aerogels opens up energy storage and electronic applications
Keep On Flying
Look past the screaming headlines and you’ll see that airliners have never been safer
Documentary on eSports Shows Video Games in Transition
The rise of eSports leaves plenty of uncertainty among professional gamers and tournament organizers
NordLink – a landmark project enabling a more interconnected Europe
This video is sponsored by ABB.com
Android Creator Andy Rubin's Playground for Hardware Startups
Thinking about hatching a hardware company? A new incubator might be the place for you
Proposal Would Put Laser Cannon on ISS to Blast Space Junk
A powerful orbital laser could eliminate centimeter-scale orbital debris in just five years
How Google Handled a Year of “Right to Be Forgotten” Requests
Following a European court ruling, Google expunged more than half a million links
Baseball's Player-tracking Statcast System Debuts
After limited trials last season, Statcast, a radar and motion-capture system, is now ready for live TV coverage
Soggy Computing: Liquid Devices Might Match the Brain's Efficiency
Vanadium dioxide switches could be great for a new kind of computing, but maybe they're just too strange
Baidu's Boffin Describes Beijing's Homegrown Self-Driving Car
China's Google also wants a wondercar, and China's regulators are opening the roads for it
Building a New Home? Better Make It Solar Ready
Palo Alto celebrates Earth Day with green building codes targeting solar energy use and water conservation
New Material Can Change Its Color and Texture Like a Cuttlefish
Beyond camouflage applications, material holds out promise for speeding up growth of biological tissue
MIT Turns Thumbnail into Trackpad
Could allow mobile device use even when hands are full
From Engineer to Manager: How to Cope With Promotion
Swapping technical expertise for management skills can be difficult
All-photonic Quantum Repeaters: a Major Step Towards a Worldwide Quantum Internet
Matter quantum repeaters: The end of a dogma?
Laser-printed polysilicon transistors on paper
Could improve wearable electronics, lead to trillions of cheap sensors
PR2 Robot Figures Out How to Make a Latte
Your robot butler is now closer than ever
Disney Does Better Dubbing
More than 9,600 alternatives found for "clean swatches"
40 Percent of Hanford Nuclear Waste Would Fit in One 5-km Deep Borehole
All of the U.K.'s high-level nuclear waste could be buried in just a few extremely deep holes
Theory Lowers the Speed Limit for Quantum Computing
A lower theoretical speed limit for quantum entanglement puts new bounds on future quantum computers
Unlucky Robot Gets Stranded Inside Fukushima Nuclear Reactor, Sends Back Critical Data
A brave little robot has given its non-life to send back critical data on the inside of the damaged reactor
How Nicaraguan Villagers Built Their Own Electric Grid
Modern infrastructure had bypassed Nicaragua’s northern highlands, so locals took matters into their own hands
Camera Array Gives You Real-Time Third Person View As You Drive
It's not a video game, it's the next step in automotive safety
New Theory Leads to Gigahertz Antenna on a Chip
Tech history and modern physics inspire a new path to smaller antennas
Molybdenum Disulfide Gets a Boost as a Li-ion Electrode Material
Researchers find a way to maintain MoS2's high charge capacity over numerous cycles
Singapore to Open Robocar Testing Facility
Nanyang Technological University's "Smart Mobility Test Bed" will focus on vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-infrastructure communications
Video Friday: Robotic Kitchen, Swarming Drones, and Robots Want Your Blood
The week's best robot videos are here. Yes, right here. Here. HERE!
Engineers Attack Mt. Everest's 12-Ton Poop Problem
A new waste-to-energy system could help power a nearby Nepalese village
Graphene Brings Photodetectors to the Brink of Terahertz Speeds
Graphene's properties overcomes charge carrier cooling times, which had limited switching speeds
Rethinking Radio
A novel changes my perception of radio waves
How Much Did Early Transistors Cost?
About a billion times more than they do now
University of Pennsylvania Unleashes Robot Jerboa Upon the World
Thanks to an actuated tail, this robot has hops
IBM Will Harness Fitness and Health Data from Apple Devices
A new IBM Watson Health unit will analyze personal health data to hopefully benefit patients, physicians and researchers
Robocop Delivers Pizza, Prevents Suicide
A standoff between police and a man threatening to jump from a highway overpass came to a peaceful end, thanks to a robotic intervention
BMW's Mini Will Augment Your Vision
Stand aside, Google Glass and Oculus Rift--BMW's giving drivers virtual eyes
Q&A: Carver Mead
A longtime collaborator recalls the first time he met Gordon Moore
Where are the Top Companies for Tech Women?
This year’s list of Top Companies for Women Technologists includes four in the San Francisco Bay Area, three in New York City, and two near San Antonio, Texas
Tactical Laser Weapon Module Can Laserify Almost Anything
General Atomics displays a small, self-contained, weapons-grade laser cannon that can be attached to the roof of your car
Electronic Gate Built For Silicon Quantum Computers
Researchers implement a 1998 proposal to control long-lived silicon qubits
How Brain Pacemakers Treat Parkinson's Disease
Figuring out how deep brain stimulation actually works may lead to next-generation implants
Self-Powered Video Camera Could Run Indefinitely In Bright Light
Camera is based on a new photovoltaic pixel design that captures images while powering itself
Who Is Gomtec, the Collaborative Robotics Company Acquired by ABB?
Here's why Swiss automation giant ABB is buying a small robot arm company
SpaceX Tries Again for Reusable Rocket Landing on Drone Ship
SpaceX hopes for a historic upright landing of a reusable rocket on a drone ship after past attempts faltered
Perovskite Leads to 100-Percent Efficient Nanowire Lasers
The quality that makes perovskite attractive for photovoltaics makes them near perfect for lasers
NRC Opposes European Moves to Tighten Nuclear Safety Post-Fukushima
Belgium’s top nuclear regulator and an independent corrosion expert say all nuclear pressure vessels should be inspected after flaws are detected at two Belgian power plants. The NRC is unmoved.
You Can Launch This Quadrotor by Throwing It in the Air
Without any external control, this drone stabilizes itself in midair almost instantly
Aston Martin's Robocar: Stirring, Not Shaken
"Q" won't have to tell James Bond to bring it back in one piece. The car will bring itself back
Jeremy Rifkin on the Internet of Things and the Next Industrial Revolution
Will the Internet of Things be a technological and economic panacea?
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