The skin could help rehabilitation and enhance virtual reality by instantaneously adapting to a wearer's movements.

Salty air the Dutch city of Harlingen causes exposed metal parts to corrode.

New measurements could help experts guess the location and size of the next earthquake.

Our expert examines the pros and cons of welding, adhesives, and other metal joining methods.

A team in Germany has a quicker, cleaner approach to welding metal to plastic: The HPCI® Joining Gun.

For decades, robots in controlled environments like assembly lines have been able to pick up the same object over and over again. More recently, breakthroughs in computer vision have enabled...

Flying animals both power and control flight by flapping their wings. This enables small natural flyers such as insects to hover close to a flower but also to rapidly escape danger. Animal flight has...

Sherry Towfighian and her team made a big improvement on how microphones are manufactured.

Learn about the world's first wave-driven desalination system.

A prototype of the AC 'Biode' battery has been developed at 20W.

Although Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is being used widely for pallet and box-level tracking in the commercial sector, significant technology gaps remain for tracking dense quantities at the item...

Researchers have developed a new self-calibrating endoscope that produces 3D images of objects smaller than a single cell without a lens or any optical, electrical, or...

The ULiSSES device preserves organs, without the ice chest.

A Tech Briefs reader asks: What's next with military motion control?

A new drone “folds” itself into configurations that suit a given environment.

Inventor Olivier Ceberio found a new way to turn ocean waves into fresh water.

Very thin nylon films were created that can be used in electronic memory components. The films are several hundreds of times thinner than a human hair and could be used in bendable...

A set of five tiny fundamental parts can be assembled into a wide variety of functional devices including a tiny “walking” motor that can move back and forth across a surface or...

Between walking and running, human gaits can cover a wide range of speeds; for example, at low speeds, the metabolic rate of walking is lower than that of running in a slow jog....