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Three microgrids show how diverse energy sources can supply power during disasters

Engineering historians teach the past to help make a better future

Will LEDs replace semiconductor lasers in optical circuits?

The Deep Learning expert explains how convolutional nets work, why Facebook needs AI, what he dislikes about the Singularity, and more

Detailed modelling shows that biomass power plants equipped to capture their CO2 emissions can render Western North America's grid carbon-negative by 2050

Researchers eliminate errors in retrieving data from DNA

Will sound waves help extend microwave links?

Faster sensor systems and motion capture could speed decisions about suspect bowlers

The launch of a new space booster is a key to understanding the state of the Russian space program

At least on paper

These newly announced robot competitions have some pretty impressive awards

Tailgating? You say that like it's a *bad* thing

The proposed rules are surprisingly reasonable, but there are things that need work

An experimental mini-spaceplane's first flight paves the way for a reusable spacecraft called Pride

This week's best robot videos

A "flow-boosting" upgrade to Europe's power market algorithms, years in the making, is delayed again amid concerns that it could aggravate grid reliability problems.

Workers begin testing muon detectors to help decommission three melted-down reactors

Who is the hottest Bay Area software engineer? Probably a Berkeley grad who is working with Hadoop at a San Francisco startup

System sends light signals from the optical fiber fiber through the air to your computer

Inspired by the process snails use to build their shells, researchers develop a method to make better electrodes

The debate has centered on policy, law, and finance, as if the network itself were a given. It is not

Everyone says they’re for Net neutrality, but not everyone agrees on what it means

The climate satellite launch would have given SpaceX a second chance to land a rocket on a drone ship

DARPA wants amputees to have prosthetics that act, and feel, just like real arms

Researchers have made a bendable, stretchable multiferroic film

Flyability's cleverly designed drone wins Drones for Good competition

Have an idea for some crazy new technology that won't be ready until 2025 or later? The DoD's Stephen Welbey wants to hear from you

Proposed law would ban “trespassing” by low-flying drones

Novel method enables commercially viable production of electronic devices from graphene

Thin-film transistors made of the 2-D electronic material work at over 220 °C

Mounting hundreds of single-photon detectors on a single chip may yield key to quantum computing

Reason: nobody wants to pay for systems that you still have to supervise