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An experimental HIV vaccine has for the first time cut the risk of infection, researchers say.

Leaping lizards have a message for robots: Get a tail!   University of California, Berkeley, biologists and engineers — including undergraduate and graduate students — studied how lizards manage to leap successfully even when they slip and stumble. They found that lizards swing their tails upward to prevent them from pitching head-over-heels into a rock.

Research team uncovers gene regulatory network that controls seed ‘de-greening’ A genetic discovery by a University of Calgary-led international research team offers a solution to a longstanding “green seed problem” that causes millions of dollars annually in canola crop losses. Led by Marcus Samuel in the Faculty of Science, researchers from the University of Calgary, the University

In the future, everything is going to be connected to the Internet—even our farm animals. We’ll track cattle the same way we monitor human health: with always-on, wearable devices that follow animals wherever they go. Several startups are working on these Fitbits for the farm yard. They hope to make detecting illness easier, and ultimately

A new start-up called Electric Imp promises to turn almost any product into a connected device with the addition of a tiny card in a slot.   Former iPhone engineering manager Hugo Fiennes, former Gmail designer Kevin Fox and long-time firmware engineer Peter Hartley co-founded the start-up, which is intended to help users monitor, control

EPFL scientists have shown how to achieve a dramatic increase in the capacity of optical fibers; Their simple, innovative solution reduces the amount of space required between the pulses of light that transport data Optical fibers carry data in the form of pulses of light over distances of thousands of miles at amazing speeds. They

  University of Washington researchers have invented a cellphone that requires no batteries — a major leap forward in moving beyond chargers, cords and dying phones. Instead, the phone harvests the few microwatts of power it requires from either ambient radio signals or light. The team also made Skype calls using its battery-free phone, demonstrating that the