NASA's InSight lander isn't camera-shy. The spacecraft used a camera on its robotic arm to take its first selfie—a mosaic made up of 11 images. […]

The surprise arrest of Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co., has thrust the company into a political firestorm and deepened a core threat: that more and more countries will blacklist its switches, routers and phones out of growing concern that they could be hijacked by foreign spies. […]

Discovery of a previously unknown replica of the legendary Swiss Millionaire calculating machine at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. […]

Roboticists at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition are teaching Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot Atlas a more natural walking gait. […]

Researchers from Denmark and Germany trained a computer model on prostate cancer patient data to predict disease progression. […]

(Rutgers University) What if, instead of turning up the thermostat, you could warm up with high-tech, flexible patches sewn into your clothes -- while significantly reducing your electric bill and carbon footprint? Engineers at Rutgers and Oregon State University have found a cost-effective way to make thin, durable heating patches by using intense pulses of light to fuse tiny silver wires with polyester. Their heating performance is nearly 70 percent higher than similar patches created by […]

(University of Alberta) Challenge any modern human to go a day without a phone or computer, and you'd be hard pressed to get any takers. Our collective obsession with all things electronic is driving a dramatic daily drain on the world's power. In fact, according to studies from the Semiconductor Research Corporation, if we continue on pace with our current ever-increasing energy consumption, by the year 2035, we will use all of the world's energy to run our computers - an […]

(University of New South Wales) A global study has found a paradox: our water supplies are shrinking at the same time as climate change is generating more intense rain. And the culprit is the drying of soils, say researchers, pointing to a world where drought-like conditions will become the new normal, especially in regions that are already dry. […]

(Japan Science and Technology Agency) Ferroelectric HfO2-based transistor and memory are expected to realize ultralow power electronics; however, their operation mechanism and scalability were not clarified yet.?Physical mechanism of low voltage operation of a transistor with ferroelectric-HfO2 gate insulator has been experimentally clarified. Scalability of ferroelectric memory with HfO2 tunnel-layer down to 20nm diameter has been theoretically elucidated.?The obtained results will contribute […]

(Queensland University of Technology) Ecology and technology have combined to give nature a helping hand, using a robot to deliver heat-tolerant coral larvae directly onto Australia's Great Barrier Reef in the first small-scale pilot of a new technique to help restore and recover coral reefs. […]

Doris Tsao mastered facial recognition in the brain. Now she’s looking to determine the neural code for everything we see -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com […]

Internet queries about opioids are linked to drug-related hospital admissions  -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com […]

Will a general algorithm that masters chess, go and shogi succeed as well for games with less-defined rules? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com […]

U.S. government funding is needed to sustain the arduous journey toward a practical quantum computer, experts say -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com […]

By analyzing the network connections between 47,000 films on IMDb, researchers found the most influential films ever made. Christopher Intagliata reports.  -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com […]