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In their ongoing pursuit of robots that can handle any task - from assisting people with special needs, to navigating disaster areas, or building …

It's a bird. It's a plane. It's... a high school junior? Don't be jarred. I don't wear a cape, and neither do the other students with whom I colla…

Ever since astronauts first set foot on the Moon in 1969, NASA and every space agency on the planet has been beset by the challenge of how to main…

Unmanned aerial vehicles (aka. drones) are becoming a very common feature in our world. In addition to conducting airstrikes and surveillance overse…

Gun violence remains one of the most controversial issues in the United States today. In fact, few issues have managed to spur the same amount of …

One of the greatest challenges of modern medicine is developing the necessary tools to make smarter and faster diagnoses, while at the same time bei…

Water is life. Not only is it absolutely essential for all living organisms in order to live and thrive, it is the very basis of civilization as we …

It's what is known as inductive charging: the ability to use an electromagnetic field between two objects to provide electrical power. In recent y…

When it comes to poverty, underdevelopment, and infant mortality, one of the main contributors is a lack of access to clean drinking water. Today,…

At one time, the price of manufacturing and installing photovoltaic cells was seen as a major stumbling block to their wide-scale use. But with rece…