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Making coffee in space isn't quite the same as making coffee here on Earth. Astronaut Tim Peake from the European Space Agency is spending six months aboard the ISS and in the video below, he shows us how he gets his coffee-fix.…

Engineers from The University of Texas at Austin have been doing some writing — not with a ball point pen — with a bubble pen that uses lasers to help it focus. Their new technique may help researchers easily create tiny machines,…

On January 13, NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter broke a new record. Juno was approximately 493 million miles from the sun — making it the most distant solar-powered craft ever. The previous record-holder was the European Space Agency's…

If you ever become tired of working on your ordinary desktop computer, there may be another option. A company called 3D Horizons has introduced a new technology that transforms your PC into a virtual reality world without the use of…

Hate those awful potholes that appear each winter? A robotics and 3D printing start-up called Addibot, based in New York, is trying to help repair them with a new robot that uses water to 3D print ice. The company's robot comes…

While the world is busy catching hackers and terrorists, a group of furry critters is disrupting the power grid. A new database, the Cyber Squirrel 1, maps over 600 incidents worldwide where squirrels have wreaked some havoc by chewing…

While many supermarkets today are already equipped with self-checkout services, a self-service solutions company called Diebold has introduced an even more self-serving and high-tech checkout concept. The new mobile-enabled…

Engineers from Pennsylvania State University are developing smaller, lighter, and more multifunctional miniature antennas made out of smart materials that could increase performance and lead to better satellite communications systems.…

To meet the need for high-current, high-efficiency, and high-power-density performance in next-generation notebooks, ultrabooks, and desktops, Vishay Intertechnology introduced five new VRPower integrated DrMOS power stage solutions for…

Saelig Company has introduced the AG051 and AG051F - economical, feature-rich, single-channel multi-function generators which combine arbitrary waveform and function generation using advanced Direct Digital Synthesizer (DDS) technology to…