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The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) set a number of difficult-to-reach goals for unmanned aerial vehicles researchers. Research did not, ... Read More »

Lab-on-a-chip (LOC) devices are being touted as harbingers of the next biomedical revolution. Small, simple devices that closely model human tissues, chemically and... Read More »

Reuters reports today that Google Inc will pay a settlement of $22.5 million to resolve the Safari privacy settings suit. The suit alleged, and the FTC agreed, that... Read More »

A Reuters report this morning suggests that Amazon is on the lookout for some top IP talent. As the online retailer moves into the mobile device sphere, it will need... Read More »

NASA video captured from a low-resolution 4fps camera on the underside of curiosity. The video begins with Curiosity's heat shield -- that protected it for the... Read More »

For those of you who were not part of the throngs of enthusiasts whose collective traffic shut down all of NASA's websites yesterday evening, humanity completed... Read More »

Stable gold nanoparticles consist of a mere handful of gold atoms -- typically about one hundred. These "balls" of atoms are covered in organic molecule... Read More »

Online retailer and content provider Amazon has been making moves to expand their content beyond the ebook market, in which they are a dominant player. Sensibly, this... Read More »

MIT scientists learn how to control wrinkling as stretched surfaces relax. The process involves stretching a silicon-based polymer before depositing a second layer of ... Read More »

Late yesterday -- just shy of one week before the planned landing of our latest Mars exploration effort -- NASA posted two videos describing the Curiosity rover's ... Read More »

The 1970s was a time of secrecy and speculation, when the governments research projects and inner workings were kept secret for fear of national security. Yesterday... Read More »

“The fact is that we really don’t understand how any atomic-scale defect affects the performance on an optoelectronic device,” said Norman Tolk, the ... Read More »

Vaccines are designed to mimic aspects of the microbe they hope the help the body build immunity to. Typically, this means dead or weakened versions of the microbe... Read More »

Treating eye disease is especially tricky because the eye is a complex place. In a recent study, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University researchers... Read More »

iRobot teamed up with InTouch health to recently release the RP-VITA telemedicine robot ("Remote Presence Virtual + Independent Telemedicine Assistant")... Read More »

Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers offer a number of advantages in the manufacturing process over their horizontal-cavity brethren. In particular, vertical... Read More »

Ever since a swarm of quadrotor drones performed a dazzling light show at the Cannes film festival, it seems these robots are inching their way into performance. In... Read More »

CalTech and Harvard researchers have teamed up to create a rudimentary swimming jellyfish from silicon and rat muscle cells. The researchers worked out the ideal... Read More »

When Samsung appealed Judge Lucy Koh's decision to impose an import injunction last month, the prospects of winning an appeal were slim. Samsung currently cannot... Read More »

When UCLA researcher Yang Yang looks out a window, he sees opportunity. Yang's focus isn't on what's beyond the window, but the window itself --... Read More »