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Amazon Dash buttons are WiFi-connected gadgets that let you order certain branded items from Amazon without having to go to the website. They’ve been so successful, an Amazon spokesperson tells Recode, that Amazon is now putting virtual…

The question of whether Earthlings are alone in the universe has puzzled everyone from biologists and physicists to philosophers and filmmakers. It's also the driving force behind San Francisco State University astronomer Stephen Kane's…

Technology that emulates the way a gecko uses its toes to cling to flat surfaces has been developed by a small team of researchers at Kiel University in Germany. In their paper published in the journal Science Robotics, the team describes…

To study human behavior for long-term space exploration, including a planned voyage to Mars, a group of NASA-funded researchers are poised to enter an isolated geodesic dome on a Hawaii volcano. The six crew members head into their new…

Metamaterials—materials whose function is determined by structure, not composition—have been designed to bend light and sound, transform from soft to stiff, and even dampen seismic waves from earthquakes. But each of these functions…

The largest ever single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) dataset of genetic variations in poplar trees, information useful to plant scientists as well as researchers in the fields of biofuels, materials science, and secondary plant metabolism,…

While some scientists believe that the world can achieve significant dematerialization through improvements in technology, a new MIT-led study finds that technological advances alone will not bring about dematerialization and, ultimately, a…

A giant drone called the Joint Tactical Aerial Resupply Vehicle, or JTARV, could be the backbone of battlefield resupply for the US military. Researchers at the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) compare it to “Amazon on the battlefield,”…

To keep its modem chips in Apple's products, including the iPhone and iPad, a newly unsealed antitrust suit from the Federal Trade Commission alleges that Qualcomm entered into an anticompetitive deal with Apple. The deal allegedly…