This robot is the fastest in its category Thanks to its legs, whose design faithfully reproduces feline morphology, EPFL’s four-legged “cheetah-cub robot” has the same advantages as its model: it is small, light and fast.

An antibiotic has been found to stimulate its own production. The findings, to be published in PNAS, could make it easier to scale up antibiotic production for commercialisation. Scientists Dr Emma Sherwood and Professor Mervyn

Tianhe-2, or Milky Way-2, a supercomputer developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology, is the new No. 1 ranked machine on the industry-standard Top500 list of the world’s most powerful high performance computing (HPC)

An Alzheimer’s patient may be able to have synaptic connections restored even with plaques and tangles already in his or her brain The first experimental drug to boost brain synapses lost in Alzheimer’s disease has

On TV and the Lecture Circuit, Bill Nye Aims to Change the World As the car pulled into the parking lot of a Starbucks, William Sanford Nye unknotted his trademark bow tie and slipped it

NASA’s communications experts have begun flight testing a prototype radio as part of the agency’s contributions toward fully integrating civil and commercial Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) into the National Airspace System (NAS). This particular radio

“This compound showed powerful activity against ordinary active TB bacteria, non-replicating TB bacteria and even extensively drug-resistant TB strains,” An international team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), the Howard Hughes Medical

You may not be able to control the privacy of your electronic data. But keeping yourself off security cameras? There’s an app for that. Given the recent NSA revelations, there may not be anything you

Out in the wilds or anywhere off the grid, sophisticated instruments small enough to fit in a shirt pocket will one day scavenge power from sunlight, body heat, or other sources to monitor water quality

With modern communication aids, users of electric powered wheelchairs can operate a PC and cellphone without human assistance. A new module is set to transform electric powered wheelchairs into communication hubs. Writing text messages and

Research by Indiana University environmental scientists shows that air-pollution-removal technology used in “self-cleaning” paints and building surfaces may actually cause more problems than they solve. The study finds that titanium dioxide coatings, seen as promising

Researchers develop method to design synthetic materials and quickly turn the design into reality using computer optimization and 3-D printing. Researchers working to design new materials that are durable, lightweight and environmentally sustainable are increasingly