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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

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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

After 25 years and a tumultuous life, Hubble is still going strong

The Modular Robotic Vehicle can drive in any direction and doesn't even need you behind the wheel

Using 3-D to manufacture predetermined architectures for aerogels opens up energy storage and electronic applications

Look past the screaming headlines and you’ll see that airliners have never been safer

The rise of eSports leaves plenty of uncertainty among professional gamers and tournament organizers

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Thinking about hatching a hardware company? A new incubator might be the place for you

A powerful orbital laser could eliminate centimeter-scale orbital debris in just five years

Following a European court ruling, Google expunged more than half a million links

After limited trials last season, Statcast, a radar and motion-capture system, is now ready for live TV coverage

Vanadium dioxide switches could be great for a new kind of computing, but maybe they're just too strange

China's Google also wants a wondercar, and China's regulators are opening the roads for it

Palo Alto celebrates Earth Day with green building codes targeting solar energy use and water conservation

Beyond camouflage applications, material holds out promise for speeding up growth of biological tissue

Could allow mobile device use even when hands are full

Swapping technical expertise for management skills can be difficult

Matter quantum repeaters: The end of a dogma?

Could improve wearable electronics, lead to trillions of cheap sensors

Your robot butler is now closer than ever

More than 9,600 alternatives found for "clean swatches"

All of the U.K.'s high-level nuclear waste could be buried in just a few extremely deep holes

A lower theoretical speed limit for quantum entanglement puts new bounds on future quantum computers

A brave little robot has given its non-life to send back critical data on the inside of the damaged reactor

Modern infrastructure had bypassed Nicaragua’s northern highlands, so locals took matters into their own hands

It's not a video game, it's the next step in automotive safety

Tech history and modern physics inspire a new path to smaller antennas

Researchers find a way to maintain MoS2's high charge capacity over numerous cycles

Nanyang Technological University's "Smart Mobility Test Bed" will focus on vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-infrastructure communications

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A new waste-to-energy system could help power a nearby Nepalese village

Graphene's properties overcomes charge carrier cooling times, which had limited switching speeds

A novel changes my perception of radio waves

About a billion times more than they do now

Thanks to an actuated tail, this robot has hops

A new IBM Watson Health unit will analyze personal health data to hopefully benefit patients, physicians and researchers

A standoff between police and a man threatening to jump from a highway overpass came to a peaceful end, thanks to a robotic intervention

Stand aside, Google Glass and Oculus Rift--BMW's giving drivers virtual eyes

A longtime collaborator recalls the first time he met Gordon Moore