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The winner of the Smithsonian Ingenuity Award for technology hopes to launch a revolution with his spaceship and electric car
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Pollutants from crude stoves are responsible for many deaths – a D.C.-based NGO has a solution
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Born in desperation and long mocked, the social media platform has become a popular research and intelligence-gathering tool
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Retailers are mining personal data to learn everything about you so they can help you help yourself to their products.
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Sure, it can get aggravating, but here are some innovations that are making it easier and more enjoyable to take a trip
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Only if utility companies are able to make their power grids smart enough to spot outages and "heal" themselves
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In Tokyo, a reservation-only photo booth spits out three-dimensional replicas of its subjects
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Get ready for the day when your big screen and your small screens work together to connect you with shows and products.
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Voting experts David Becker and Thad Hall discuss the technologies that could forever change the way we register and cast our votes
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Brain scans suggest Democrats and Republicans actually are different biologically. Welcome to the world of political neuroscience.
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Incredibly powerful supercomputers and a willingness to acknowledge that they're not perfect has made weather scientists become much more effective in forecasting hurricanes.
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A Microsoft prototype called Digits could put the power to control everything from TV screens to smart phones in a device you wear on your wrist
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The war on cancer has been going on for more than 40 years. Here are 10 small--and maybe not so small--victories scientists have had this year
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It sounds funny, but when Google created a huge computer network that was able to identify cats from YouTube videos, it was a big leap forward for artificial intelligence.
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A lot of police departments will soon have their own flying robots. How far should they be allowed to go in shooting video from the sky?
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Cutting-edge research in regenerative medicine suggests that the future of health care may lie in getting the body to grow new parts and heal itself.
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Set to be christened in 2013, this new naval warship will amaze, leaving almost no wake in the open seas
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Smith trucks are powered by batteries, not diesel, which could make a big difference in the fight against climate change
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A new breed of scientists says that if you want to understand why people make financial decisions, you need to see what's going on inside their brains
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Here's the latest on robots that work with humans, a revolutionary camera, home 3-D printers, mobile wallets and Google's driverless car
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