Using this state-of-the-art technique will benefit the agency by saving millions in manufacturing costs. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. is using a method called selective laser melting, or SLM, to create intricate [...]

To what extent can social networking make it easier to find people and solve real-world problems? IN 1967 Stanley Milgram, an American social scientist, conducted an experiment in which he sent dozens of packages to [...]

ABB has announced a breakthrough in the ability to interrupt direct current, solving a 100-year-old electrical engineering puzzle and paving the way for a more efficient and reliable electricity supply system. After years of research, ABB [...]

A research project considers how the law should deal with technologies that blur man and machine SPEAKING at a conference organised by The Economist earlier this year, Hugh Herr, a roboticist at the Massachusetts Institute [...]

MIT researchers develop tool to assess regional risks of climate change, potential impacts on local infrastructure and planning. Climate scientists cannot attribute any single weather event — whether a drought, wildfire or extreme storm — [...]

Strange expects that solar panels of sufficient power for the first cislunar missions will be available by 2020. A marriage of the tortoise and the hare may be the key to exploring the Solar System. [...]

Researchers at the University of Tokyo‘s Kamata lab are working on a new wheeled robotic vehicle that can climb stairs. Called the NOBOROT, it uses a proximity sensor to detect when it is next to a step [...]

Wyss Institute Models a Human Disease in an Organ-on-a-Chip Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have mimicked pulmonary edema in a microchip lined by living human cells, as reported [...]

TechJect is looking to raise $110,000 via indigogo by the time the calendar ticks over to 2013. Given their impressive flight capabilities, it’s not surprising to see researchers turning to the world of flying insects [...]

India has become the focal point for a mosquito-borne plague that is sweeping the globe. An epidemic of dengue fever in India is fostering a growing sense of alarm even as government officials here have publicly refused to acknowledge [...]

Aguilar suggests that a future version of the device might have a Geiger counter to get initial readings on suspected radioactive areas. A CLUMP of cameras, electronics and LEDs packed into a rubber shell the [...]

Why spend billions on restringing, burying, or waterproofing power lines?  True post-storm resilience lies in onsite renewable energy. Last week, 8.5 million people in the Northeast lost power, most for days, due to Hurricane Sandy. [...]