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'Han,' a robot created by Hanson Robotics, is targeted for customer service and health care fields, but might need to be toned down a bit.

Aside from its monumental rocket landing attempt, last week’s SpaceX launch made headlines for another reason: It jettisoned an espresso machine into space for the first…

To protect this year's Boston Marathon runners and spectators from drone-borne threats, a Washington, D.C.-based company patrolled the event with drone-detecting sensors…

Where do stars come from? This handy infographic follows a star from beginning to end to beginning all over again.

Touches to certain parts of the hand can elicit emotional interpretations, opening the door to sending emotions to others via technology.

At first glance it looks like a rogue jet ski speeding through the water, rider nowhere to be found. Al Seer Marine’s Hydra unmanned surface vessel (or sea drone) is a…

A lot of agriculture is bug herding. Predators and pesticides keep the bad bugs off, while strategically placed plants attract the good bugs. It’s a lot of work, but a…

In the past, cancer drugs have been indiscriminate killing machines—they would kill the cancerous cells, but take healthy cells too, sometimes making the patient even…

T. rex has its big head and tiny arms, triceratops has horns, and brontosaurus (yes, brontosaurus) has its super long neck. The stegosaurus, on the other hand, has a tiny…

Using a pair of augmented reality glasses, a Marine signals intelligence (SIGINT) specialist monitors web traffic while he lies on the ground, his assault rifle trained on…

To feed our need for health-related data, engineers have created specialized wearable gadgets or have added capabilities to the devices already integrated into our lives.

A security vulnerability discovered by researchers could allow a Wi-Fi network to crash your phone--without you even connecting to it.

Rumors have been buzzing for months that a team of Chinese researchers was intending to edit the genes of a human embryo. According to a study published this week in…

Between 2012 and 2014, 160 people became infected by Salmonella Cotham, a rare strain of bacteria that causes vomiting, diarrhea, and fever. Sixty-one people were…

Forget being your search engine and email service: now Google wants to be your wireless carrier as well.

The Little Engine That Could was a bright, friendly blue locomotive who managed to overcome impossible odds through sheer force of will--I think therefore I can. GE's new…

Ghost looks more like a spacecraft than a seaborne combat vessel. It's waiting for us in the Piscataqua River, a few minutes out from its home at the Portsmouth Naval…

Chile's Calbuco volcano has been sleeping since 1972--and yesterday, it woke up with a start. The peak finally erupted, sending a huge ash plume into the air followed by…

While mitochondrial DNA transfers, or “three-parent babies,” are now legal in the United Kingdom, the debate (largely an ethical one) is still ongoing in the United States.

On March 30, Elon Musk sent out this tweet: Since then, we've all been waiting with bated breath to see what kind of "new product line" Tesla could possibly be getting…

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