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Giant European Robofish Sniff Out Ocean Pollutants Autonomously
Robots

Giant European Robofish Sniff Out Ocean Pollutants Autonomously

By Rebecca Boyle

100-Year Starship Project Forges Ahead With First Round of Funding
DARPA

100-Year Starship Project Forges Ahead With First Round of Funding

By Rebecca Boyle

DNA Inside Cells Can Serve As Rewritable Data Storage
Biology

DNA Inside Cells Can Serve As Rewritable Data Storage

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: Micro-Robots Made of Bubbles That Are Powered by Lasers
Robots

Video: Micro-Robots Made of Bubbles That Are Powered by Lasers

By Clay Dillow

SpaceX Successfully Launches the First Privately Built Spacecraft to the International Space Station
Technology

SpaceX Successfully Launches the First Privately Built Spacecraft to the International Space Station

By Clay Dillow

Hubble Peers Into the Constellation Andromeda to Capture a Spiral Galaxy in Profile
Technology

Hubble Peers Into the Constellation Andromeda to Capture a Spiral Galaxy in Profile

By Clay Dillow

With Telerobotics, Astronauts Orbit Mars While Robots Explore the Surface
Mars

With Telerobotics, Astronauts Orbit Mars While Robots Explore the Surface

By Rebecca Boyle

Equipped With a Hot Glue Gun, New Robot Builds Its Own Custom Tools
Robots

Equipped With a Hot Glue Gun, New Robot Builds Its Own Custom Tools

By Rebecca Boyle

Technology

SpaceX’s Historic ISS Cargo Ferry Launch Aborted at the Last Second

By John Mahoney

Your Very Own Cleaner, Faster Plane, Now on Kickstarter
Aviation

Your Very Own Cleaner, Faster Plane, Now on Kickstarter

By Paul Adams

The Dawn of the Commercial Space Age is (Probably) Happening This Weekend
Technology

The Dawn of the Commercial Space Age is (Probably) Happening This Weekend

By Clay Dillow

What Is Google’s Semantic Search?
Internet

What Is Google’s Semantic Search?

By Rebecca Boyle

PopSci Q&A: NASA Just Gave You A Telescope. What Will You Look At First?
Technology

PopSci Q&A: NASA Just Gave You A Telescope. What Will You Look At First?

By Rebecca Boyle

ViviSat: An On-Call, Robotic Doctor for Ailing Satellites
Robots

ViviSat: An On-Call, Robotic Doctor for Ailing Satellites

By Rebecca Boyle

The Pentagon is Investing Millions to Advance the Future of 3-D Printing Tech
Aviation

The Pentagon is Investing Millions to Advance the Future of 3-D Printing Tech

By Clay Dillow

Video: In Breakthrough Study, Paralyzed Patients Move a Robotic Arm With Their Own Thoughts
Robots

Video: In Breakthrough Study, Paralyzed Patients Move a Robotic Arm With Their Own Thoughts

By Rebecca Boyle

Now Showing in NYC: A Rare Collection of Hollywood Futurist Syd Mead’s Paintings
Concept Cars

Now Showing in NYC: A Rare Collection of Hollywood Futurist Syd Mead’s Paintings

By Clay Dillow

Test Drive: The 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL 63 AMG
Technology

Test Drive: The 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL 63 AMG

By Jon Alain Guzik

Video: New Finger-Tap Power Generator Uses Viruses to Make Electricity
Technology

Video: New Finger-Tap Power Generator Uses Viruses to Make Electricity

By Rebecca Boyle

NASA is Training Up an Astronaut Crew for a Potential Manned Asteroid Mission
Technology

NASA is Training Up an Astronaut Crew for a Potential Manned Asteroid Mission

By Clay Dillow

Engineer Details Plans to Build a Real, Burj-Dubai-Sized Starship Enterprise in 20 Years
Science

Engineer Details Plans to Build a Real, Burj-Dubai-Sized Starship Enterprise in 20 Years

By Rebecca Boyle

Electrical Engineer Can Feel Magnetic Fields Through Magnets Implanted in His Fingertips
Engineering

Electrical Engineer Can Feel Magnetic Fields Through Magnets Implanted in His Fingertips

By Clay Dillow

New Light-Powered Eye Implants Use Infrared Pulses to Restore Sight
Health

New Light-Powered Eye Implants Use Infrared Pulses to Restore Sight

By Rebecca Boyle

Skywatchers Take Note: Sunday’s Annular Solar Eclipse Will Leave a Ring of Fire in the Sky
Technology

Skywatchers Take Note: Sunday’s Annular Solar Eclipse Will Leave a Ring of Fire in the Sky

By Clay Dillow

Living in the Future: Multitouch, or How I Learned to Love the Mac
Technology

Living in the Future: Multitouch, or How I Learned to Love the Mac

By Dan Nosowitz

This Week in the Future, May 7-11, 2012
Science

This Week in the Future, May 7-11, 2012

By Baarbarian

Even the Maya Didn’t Think the World Would End in 2012
Technology

Even the Maya Didn’t Think the World Would End in 2012

By Dan Nosowitz

New iPad App 123D Catch Turns Pictures Into Printable 3-D Renders
Gear

New iPad App 123D Catch Turns Pictures Into Printable 3-D Renders

By Dan Nosowitz

Today’s Pretty Space Pic: Cygnus-X, a Star Nursery in Action
Technology

Today’s Pretty Space Pic: Cygnus-X, a Star Nursery in Action

By Clay Dillow

Golf-Ball-Inspired Nike Track Suit Has Speed Holes, for Speed
Technology

Golf-Ball-Inspired Nike Track Suit Has Speed Holes, for Speed

By Dan Nosowitz

Pentagon: That Fictional Drone From That Unreleased Video Game Sure Looks Cool
Aviation

Pentagon: That Fictional Drone From That Unreleased Video Game Sure Looks Cool

By Clay Dillow

Video: Bizarrely Realistic Japanese Robotic Buttocks Responds to Slaps
Robots

Video: Bizarrely Realistic Japanese Robotic Buttocks Responds to Slaps

By Dan Nosowitz

Do You “Possess” What You View Online?
Internet

Do You “Possess” What You View Online?

By Dan Nosowitz

Envisat, Now Quiet for Nearly a Month, Is Declared Dead by the ESA
Technology

Envisat, Now Quiet for Nearly a Month, Is Declared Dead by the ESA

By Clay Dillow

Anyone Can Build an Enormous Next-Generation Jet Engine (In Holographic 3-D)
Aviation

Anyone Can Build an Enormous Next-Generation Jet Engine (In Holographic 3-D)

By Clay Dillow

Using Facial Recognition to Identify Unknown Subjects in History’s Great Portraits
Military

Using Facial Recognition to Identify Unknown Subjects in History’s Great Portraits

By Clay Dillow

Jeff Bezos’s “Blue Origin” Space Company Reveals Spacecraft Design
Technology

Jeff Bezos’s “Blue Origin” Space Company Reveals Spacecraft Design

By Dan Nosowitz

Blueseed, the Floating City for Startups, Has More Than a Hundred Firms Ready to Ship Out
Technology

Blueseed, the Floating City for Startups, Has More Than a Hundred Firms Ready to Ship Out

By Clay Dillow

Paralyzed Woman Completes London Marathon in Bionic Suit After 16 Days
Technology

Paralyzed Woman Completes London Marathon in Bionic Suit After 16 Days

By Dan Nosowitz

Microsoft’s Newest Gestural Interface Captures Hand Motions By Listening to Them
Robots

Microsoft’s Newest Gestural Interface Captures Hand Motions By Listening to Them

By Clay Dillow

Nevada Issues a Driver’s License to Google’s Self-Driving Car
Self Driving

Nevada Issues a Driver’s License to Google’s Self-Driving Car

By Paul Adams

China Takes Off
Aviation

China Takes Off

By James Fallows

Video: Touch-Sensitive Doorknobs Could Lock or Unlock With the Curl of a Finger
Security

Video: Touch-Sensitive Doorknobs Could Lock or Unlock With the Curl of a Finger

By Dan Nosowitz

Video: FlexLeg Pseudo-Prosthesis Lets You Run When Your Leg Is Broken
Health

Video: FlexLeg Pseudo-Prosthesis Lets You Run When Your Leg Is Broken

By Dan Nosowitz

NASA and SETI Rent a Giant Zeppelin to Hunt for Meteorite Over Nevada
Technology

NASA and SETI Rent a Giant Zeppelin to Hunt for Meteorite Over Nevada

By Clay Dillow

Using Magnetic Bacteria to Construct the Biocomputer of the Future
Health

Using Magnetic Bacteria to Construct the Biocomputer of the Future

By Clay Dillow

This Week in the Future, April 30-May 4, 2012
Science

This Week in the Future, April 30-May 4, 2012

By Baarbarian

Testing the Long-Awaited Fisker Karma Plug-In Hybrid
Technology

Testing the Long-Awaited Fisker Karma Plug-In Hybrid

By John Voelcker

Kids These Days Are 3-D Printing “Brass” Knuckles
Technology

Kids These Days Are 3-D Printing “Brass” Knuckles

By Dan Nosowitz

A Personal Simulation of Your Blood Could Help Doctors Study Disease
Health

A Personal Simulation of Your Blood Could Help Doctors Study Disease

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: Baroque Music Composed and Performed by Robotic String Quintet
Technology

Video: Baroque Music Composed and Performed by Robotic String Quintet

By Dan Nosowitz

In Successful Test, Microsubmarines Help Clean Up Oil Spills
Technology

In Successful Test, Microsubmarines Help Clean Up Oil Spills

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: How to Fold the Longest-Flying Paper Airplanes
Aviation

Video: How to Fold the Longest-Flying Paper Airplanes

By Corinne Iozzio

‘Jetman’ Yves Rossy Takes to the Skies Above Rio de Janeiro
Technology

‘Jetman’ Yves Rossy Takes to the Skies Above Rio de Janeiro

By Clay Dillow

Morphable Concert Hall Ceiling Shape-Shifts For Superbly Customized Sound
Technology

Morphable Concert Hall Ceiling Shape-Shifts For Superbly Customized Sound

By Rebecca Boyle

Mexican Electro-Receptacle Dispenses Free Wi-Fi in Exchange for Deposits of Dog Poo
Technology

Mexican Electro-Receptacle Dispenses Free Wi-Fi in Exchange for Deposits of Dog Poo

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: Herb the Robot Butler Microwaves Your Dinner For You
Robots

Video: Herb the Robot Butler Microwaves Your Dinner For You

By Rebecca Boyle

Bandages Made of Edible Starch Could Dissolve On Your Skin Once You’re Healed
Health

Bandages Made of Edible Starch Could Dissolve On Your Skin Once You’re Healed

By Rebecca Boyle

Meet Silicene, Single-Atom-Thick Sheets of Silicon That Could Supersede Graphene
Technology

Meet Silicene, Single-Atom-Thick Sheets of Silicon That Could Supersede Graphene

By Rebecca Boyle

Who Is Buying Up More Drones Than Law Enforcement? Universities
Aviation

Who Is Buying Up More Drones Than Law Enforcement? Universities

By Clay Dillow

Airplane-Mounted Laser Weapon Project May Be Resurrected to Defend Against North Korea
Technology

Airplane-Mounted Laser Weapon Project May Be Resurrected to Defend Against North Korea

By Clay Dillow

Head-Mounted 3-D Mapping Device, Developed for Robots, Can Help Blind People Navigate
Technology

Head-Mounted 3-D Mapping Device, Developed for Robots, Can Help Blind People Navigate

By Rebecca Boyle

The Jets of the Future
Aviation

The Jets of the Future

By Andrew Rosenblum and Rose Pastore

Rough Sketch: “I Build Flying Robots”
Aviation

Rough Sketch: “I Build Flying Robots”

By Vijay Kumar as told to Flora Lichtman

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