A keen sense of smell is a powerful ability shared by many organisms. However, it has proven difficult to replicate by artificial means. Researchers combined biological...
Predicting when and how collections of particles, robots, or animals become orderly remains a challenge across science and engineering.
Albert Einstein once said, "You have to learn the rules of the game, and then you have to play better than anyone else." That could well...
Have you ever seen a fancy ergonomic chair that seems to magically mold to a person's body? Such products got researchers at MIT's Computer Science and...
Shape, color, and gloss.
Stanford University engineers have developed an airborne method for imaging underwater objects by combining light and sound to break through the seemingly impassable...
Magnesium batteries have long been considered a potentially safer and less expensive alternative to lithium-ion batteries, but previous versions have been severely...
So you need a robot that climbs stairs. What shape should that robot be? Should it have two legs, like a person? Or six, like an...
Hydrogen-powered car manufacturer Riversimple is hoping to steal a march on competitors ahead of Britain's promised "green revolution" that would see petrol-powered...
Researchers in a joint research project led by a scientist from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) have developed an easy way to make millirobots, by...