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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

The week's best robot videos are here. Yes, right here. Here. HERE!

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

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

General Atomics displays a small, self-contained, weapons-grade laser cannon that can be attached to the roof of your car

Researchers implement a 1998 proposal to control long-lived silicon qubits

Figuring out how deep brain stimulation actually works may lead to next-generation implants

Camera is based on a new photovoltaic pixel design that captures images while powering itself

Here's why Swiss automation giant ABB is buying a small robot arm company

SpaceX hopes for a historic upright landing of a reusable rocket on a drone ship after past attempts faltered

The quality that makes perovskite attractive for photovoltaics makes them near perfect for lasers

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.

Without any external control, this drone stabilizes itself in midair almost instantly

"Q" won't have to tell James Bond to bring it back in one piece. The car will bring itself back

Will the Internet of Things be a technological and economic panacea?

With the help of the European Space Agency, NASA may attempt a landing on Europa in the late 2020s to search for alien life

The world's most popular camera drone is now even easier to fly

Robot faceplants guaranteed!

Even with a tired battery back, electric vehicles will still have plenty of charge for most people

Terrible idea: teaching robots to use swords. Not terrible idea: spending the rest of your Friday watching robot videos

Scientists have discovered could solve one of the big problems in spintronics—distance

A U.S. decision to block Intel from upgrading a Chinese supercomputer won't stop China in the long run

Consumer GPS devices could provide a low-cost earthquake warning system in developing regions

With robotic samplers in sewage tunnels, public health officials will study the city's microbiome

Random voltage fluctuations on chips can be turned into electricity

iRobot wants to do away with the annoying edge wire that most lawn mower robots use, but their wireless beacon proposal has angered radio astronomers

2-D material offers way to produce third-terminal memristive devices, potentially key to new brain-like computers

A Qualcomm processor in this stock Android phone is powerful enough to autonomously fly this robot

The king of video-game hardware unveils Drive PX, a two-chip monster of parallel processing power

Smart waters meters, rate restructuring and gray water recycling could turn the tide in California's water crisis

Google’s patent for generating robot personalities from cloud data is superfluous, and could make it more difficult for companies social robotics companies to innovate

Coming laser lighting would free Li-Fi from current data rate constraints

Mitsubishi will roll it out in April 2016

The U.S. military's cybersecurity budgets make it tough to gauge the effectiveness of such spending

Nanophotonic coherent imager promises 3-D imaging for 3-D printing applications and beyond

Gordon Moore’s path to his famous prediction

The test mission will see how much we can deflect an asteroid by hitting it with a spacecraft

Low cost, long cycle life and flexibility makes new system promising for grid storage and wearables