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

New drug target found for cystic fibrosis lung disease Vancouver researchers have discovered the cellular pathway that causes lung-damaging inflammation in cystic fibrosis (CF), and that reducing the pathway’s activity also decreases inflammation. The finding

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 —

Microsoft’s speech recognizer can correctly identify 86 to 88 percent of the words in arbitrary speech, Rashid said. Ever wondered what you’d sound like if you were fluent in Chinese, French or another language you

A group of African girls have made an engine that runs on a truly renewable resource: human urine. Over the last two days, Lagos, Nigeria has hosted Maker Faire Africa, the Maker movement’s bastion on that

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

Enzymes from fungi growing on trees filter out medicine residues from sewage and drinking water Months of painstaking work in the laboratory at Bielefeld University‘s Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec) have paid off: the 15 students

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