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Navion, a new heads-up display, projects information on the road in front of the driver -- no headset required.

The Internet has been in an uproar since news broke on Slate that a new law in Wyoming would make collecting data illegal. Illegal, that is, if you collected those samples…

Science fiction encourages people to dream big, envisioning what the future could be like and all of the possible paths that we could take. But not everyone gets a chance…

Phone calls to automated customer service lines inspire a unique brand of ire. Now a New Zealand-based digital marketing company is creating a robot that can mimic our…

Napoleon’s army may have marched on its stomach, but a modern military force needs more than just food to survive in the field. Electricity powers everything on an army…

2015 Invention Award Winner Category: Medicine Inventor: Katarzyna “Kasia” Sawicka Company: ImmunoMatrix LLC Invention: ImmunoMatrix…

Doing surgery on some of the body’s softest tissues is like shaving a balloon without popping it: the task requires delicate movements of sharp tools. The challenge is even…

In the aftermath of a nuclear event like the Fukushima disaster, medical professionals have to quickly determine which victims they should treat for radiation poisoning,…

Instead of the red blush of a Macintosh, Apple seems to be turning a bright shade of Granny Smith green. This week Greenpeace released their Click Clean report, an analysis…

Over the past few years, researchers have gotten a much better idea of the importance of the human microbiome--the trillions of bacteria living in and around our bodies.

Dunking a statue into a bucket of paint usually won't give you anything other than a monochromatic result. But dunk a statue into this vat of water coated with a layer of…

Just like lifeforms here on earth, galaxies can die. And it isn't always pretty. A paper published in Nature suggests that most galaxies die by strangulation. A galaxy is…

Zoltan Istvan didn’t see the half-buried bomb. He was reporting on a story about Vietnam’s forgotten landmines when he wandered off the path to look at the scar of an…

In 1986, psychology professor Linda Camras took a leave of absence from DePaul University to have a baby. For eight weeks, she recorded her daughter’s every expression and…

When my book Infested published last month and I started revisiting some of its stories during interviews, I was reminded of those I didn’t include in the final version. Some…

A dictator's smile is never really a good sign. On Saturday, North Korea claimed they launched a ballistic missile from a submarine, and pictures from the launch show…

Help to digitize important collections at the Smithsonian Institute.

BioSentinel--it sounds like Hollywood’s next big sci-fi film. Rather, it's one of NASA’s upcoming missions, with the goal of studying the long-term effects of radiation on…

When it comes to maneuvering a 200-mile-per-hour racecar, auto engineers tend to hew to a long-held belief: Rear-wheel drive is better than front-wheel drive for handling…

Seashells aren’t just pretty objects for kids to collect on the beach. According to a new study, their structure could inspire protective gear and packaging. Dr. Chandra…

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