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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

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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