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Though it's mostly dropped from the attention of the news media, the Curiosity rover is hard at work. This past week they've been working on calibrating and... Read More »

MIT postdoc Shahriar Khushrushahi has devised a devilishly clever way of separating oil from water. His team saw the necessity for better separation technologies after ... Read More »

Industrial robots have been integrated into manufacturing the world over. Bot & Dolly is a company that specializes in adopting the best of these robotic... Read More »

The dominant method for evaluating rust characteristics of a metal in a certain environment is dead simple. Museums keen on the condition of their metal artworks, for ... Read More »

Despite significant build-up talk about a new smartphone or set-top box, Jeff Bezos instead tells that Amazon is going to stay focused on the tablet space. The whole... Read More »

Boston Dynamics is at it again with another DARPA-funded robot reminiscent of the animal from which it gets its name. The Cheetah robot borrows moves from the real... Read More »

Today struggling handset maker Nokia released its next Lumia smartphones, the 820 and the 920. The specs on these phones are impressive enough: new low-light camera... Read More »

"Owing to the talents and efforts of materials chemists, graphene now grows like mold on almost anything, and from almost any feedstock," Boris Yakobson... Read More »

Electronic waste is slowly becoming a large-scale problem for our technologically advanced society. Rice University researchers have developed a new way of recycling... Read More »

To study matter on increasingly smaller scales, scientists need faster light. The speed of light is constant, of course, but "faster" here refers to the... Read More »

With all the media covering the recent Northern California District Court decision, it's easy to forget that the patent wars are being waged elsewhere in the world ... Read More »

This isn't the first time UPenn researchers have put a tail on their robots. The video first shows the results of their initial tests with "Tailbot," a... Read More »

Filing a patent to protect an idea in Europe can be a costly venture. Multiple countried mean multiple filings, each with its own fee. For years, the European Union... Read More »

The flat-panel display market is increasingly cut-throat, from smartphones to big screen TVs. These applications demand thin, efficient, and low-cost display... Read More »

Sony is undoubtedly looking for a windfall in the mobile device market to save the once great electronics manufacturer from going the route of Kodak or RIM. The... Read More »

ZTE is probably not next in line for a Samsung-esque smartphone IP takedown, but as a member of the top five telecom manufacturers in the world, the prospect has to... Read More »

A major focus of superconductor research is manipulating the critical temperature of various superconducting materials. The properties of such materials could be very ... Read More »

For anyone who missed the news, this summer's hottest patent infringement lawsuit ended on Friday with a jury decision largely in favor of Apple. Samsung's... Read More »

The question seems almost philosophical: how do they get non-stick Teflon coating to stick to metal pans? At Kiel University in Germany, researchers are tackling a... Read More »

Without a doubt, the Zen robotics recycling robot is pretty neat. That said, the Zen Robotics video ABOUT their recycling robot is way cooler. A couple years ago, the ... Read More »