Pigeons may sense Earth’s magnetic field using their inner ear, sending signals to brain areas that help with navigation and ...

Physicists at NASA and Princeton generate electricity from the Earth's rotation: could wind energy be our energy source of ...

Warnings about magnets and gadgets have been passed down like tech folklore, often without much explanation. The reality is ...

The complexity and frequency of security threats across the globe is leading to a greater focus on what is needed to keep ...

Brain-computer interfaces will play a central role in defining how human intelligence and artificial intelligence fit together.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan have created the world's smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots ...

Cell-sized robots can sense temperature, make decisions, and move autonomously using nanowatts of power—no external control ...

In a major advance for quantum science, an international team of researchers has achieved the first-ever observation of ...

Highspeed Internet, autonomous driving, the Internet of Things: data streams are proliferating at enormous speed. But classic radio technology is reaching its limits: the higher the data rate, the ...

It’s not just spacecraft that are impacted by the horrors of deep space. In October, 15 people were hospitalized after a cosmic ray sent a New Jersey-bound JetBlue flight plunging thousands of feet — ...

A microrobot can operate independently in liquids for months. The development effort was high, but the costs for the robot ...