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Batteries are bulky and rigid components that can’t easily be modified or eliminated. So when product developers design a new device, the battery is often the limiting factor in determining size, shape, and flexibility. But this year at…

A survey has shown that more than three-fourths of American adults now use a smartphone, helping to boost internet adoption to a record level. The Pew Research Center survey found 77% owning a smartphone in late 2016, more than double…

With the same precision as bulky medical equipment, a graphene health sensor that goes on the skin like a temporary tattoo takes measurements. The graphene tattoos, presented in December at the International Electron Devices Meeting in San…

Google's parent company, Alphabet, is scaling back its ambitions for Internet by drone. It has disbanded the team that had been developing the technology, according to the company. For years, companies like Facebook and Google have…

Thanks to rocks and soil collected by the Apollo 14 moonwalkers in 1971, it turns out the moon is older than many scientists suspected: a ripe 4.51 billion years old. A research team reported Wednesday that the moon formed within 60…

Nintendo is releasing more details on the upcoming Nintendo Switch later this week, but the first piece of official news has already dropped. The New York-based Nintendo store Twitter account announced that a “limited quantity” of preorders…

According to a report from The Las Vegas Sun, the city of Las Vegas will be home to a two-week autonomous shuttle trial. The shuttle is a small 12-person vehicle known as Arma, similar in appearance to Google’s original driverless car…

A wide variety of pigments to absorb different wavelengths of light are used by plants and other photosynthetic organisms. MIT researchers have now developed a theoretical model to predict the spectrum of light absorbed by aggregates of…

From art and science to culture and natural history, museums can be great teachers. They educate and inspire us. Still, display signs and audio guides can only convey so much. What if you could explore museums in a different way? With…

To demonstrate how a new force-sensing control scheme he designed was able to detect the contact and instantly stop the robot, Sami Haddadin once attached a knife to a robot manipulator and programmed it to impale his arm. Which it didn't.…