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The Bollinger B1 SUV and B2 truck prove that electric vehicles don’t have to look or act like their gas-powered predecessors

This waist-mounted supernumerary robotic limb is gentle enough to pick fruit but powerful enough to punch through a wall

Learn about the critical roles of precision, accuracy and measurement speed in impedance measurement via two distinct impedance measurement scenarios.

Quantum dots, the nanoparticles that improve color reproduction in TV displays, are migrating from the TV to the farm

There’s a lot of to gain from writing more efficient code

It’s fast, it’s tiny, and it’s going to get even tinier

With a little bit of feedback, this robot will generate an omelet optimized just for you

A British scientist working in Australia has found a way to apply a three-dimensional code to a two-dimensional framework for quantum error correcting

The antibody was discovered in a recovered patient’s blood using microfluidics, machine vision, and big-data tools

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The platform CrowdExpress relies on current and anticipated taxi requests to let packages hitch rides across urban areas

Our favorite jumping robot can now stop jumping

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Texas engineers devise a non-volatile memristor-like switch from 2D hexagonal boron nitride

Twisted light beams could boost telecommunications data rates

The new Dragon 2 spacecraft is reminiscent of the Gemini spacecraft, not the space shuttle

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Two studies analyze the use of controversial terms like “Chinese virus” on Twitter

Rugged and well designed, the first clamshell laptop flew on the space shuttle

This explainer gets you up to speed on emergency ventilators

Tech startups scramble to develop chips that signal the presence of the coronavirus RNA, antibodies, and antigens

Microsoft’s Project Silica is one of several efforts underway to make it practical to store huge amounts of data in glass

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Electric-field generating fabric, already approved for wound care, appears to destabilize coronavirus particles so they are unable to infect cells

This Facebook Messenger bot asks questions to determine one’s risk of catching the virus

Magnetic memory could get a boost from materials that promise more reliable storage at greater densities

Drone startup Sabrewing says its big vertical-takeoff flier would be quick to land, load, and take off again

Not nearly as many as old estimates would have you believe. Here is a back-of-the-envelope calculation, based on simple physics

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Researchers converted the precise timekeeping of optical atomic clocks into microwave signals for electronics

Researchers at the University of Chicago want to take what they’ve learned from working on bionic hands to restore sensation for mastectomy patients

Program your yellow and black robots while avoiding Linux entirely

Big tech companies are adopting a new security model called confidential computing to protect data while it’s in use

A former mission controller remembers the last time the United States dared to put humans in a new type of spacecraft—and some hard-won lessons for today

An emergency waiver from the FAA enables a new drone delivery service in North Carolina

A new COVID-19 data-science platform backed by the U.K. National Health Service aims to provide secure access to patient data during the coronavirus pandemic

The robots could interact with COVID-19 patients, check their temperature, and even provide entertainment

Open Robotics CEO Brian Gerkey explains why you should switch to ROS 2 even if you really, really don’t want to

The platform Troubadour can be adapted to individual curriculums and was found effective at boosting the scores of first-year music students

A lone entrepreneur’s saga shows that oil-cleanup equipment and regulations need fixing


This webinar examines the fundamentals of PAA, upcoming test challenges and how key antenna test parameters for active antennas need to be revised

Q&A with IEEE Fellow Jian-Ping Wang on his research team’s innovative tool for combating the spread of the novel coronavirus

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A replica of the Sinclair Scientific demonstrates how a cheap chip was tricked into performing miracles

Learn about the process of creating cable assemblies for application sectors such as aerospace, defense, space and motorsport.

He received the 2015 IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology for his device, which helps monitor the progression of COVID-19

In April, more power was generated from renewables like wind and solar than coal for the first time in US history

The threat of COVID-19 has disrupted fieldwork and lab experiments

The startup Coder says its cloud-based development environments can help software engineers work faster and more efficiently

Why land a drone to pick up a package when it can snatch it from a robot arm without stopping?