By replacing the cam, a new valve technology may lead to more affordable — and more environmentally friendly — engines.

The Olympic Games give elite athletes a chance at athletic triumph but also carry a risk of injury. When injuries occur, it’s critical that they be evaluated quickly. Onsite imaging...

Recent advances in brain imaging have enabled scientists to show for the first time that a key protein which causes nerve cell death spreads throughout the brain in Alzheimer's disease...

A new NYU Langone study offers the first solid evidence that functional MRI scans of brain entropy are a new means to understanding human intelligence. High-tech scans of the resting human brain...

Over the past decade, researchers have been working to create nanoscale materials and devices using DNA as construction materials through a process called DNA origami. A single long...

Stanford University is developing a laser-based imaging technology that allows cars to peek around corners.

Researchers from the University of British Columbia have developed a stretchable sensor that can be weaved into a fabric to detect a range of complex human movements, including...

If you forgot your charger today, engineers from the University of Washington have a solution for you — and it’s lasers.

By integrating storage, memory, and processing into one unit, a new semiconductor device may someday support a computing architecture that mimics the brain.

A JHU team has developed a prototype robot that steals some moves from a Central American cockroach species known as blaberus discoidalis.

Professor Stefanie Mueller and fellow researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are exploring a more efficient way to cut down on...

An electrically-driven demolition probe originally funded by NASA enables a more precise, quieter fracturing method that its creators hope will give construction workers on...

A BYU professor and his team have found a way to take the 3D displays of science fiction and make them a reality.

For the first time ever, Columbia University engineers created “artificial graphene” in a semiconductor device.

Creators of a new, M&M-sized wearable device aim to bring UV detection to users’ fingertips – or more precisely, fingernails.