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Age 116, Kane Tanaka of Japan was recently crowned the oldest person on Earth. She's six years shy of the longest human life on record: 122 years and 164 days reached by a French woman, Jeanne Louise Calment, before her ...

Blog The plenary sessions at this year's Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC) demonstrate the significance of power electronics in enabling advances in disruptive technologies such as robotics, clean energy... Sta...

Lurking in the distant corners of space are 83 monster black holes that can teach us about the early days of the cosmos.

For Maatie Alcindor, Facebook is less about reaching out to old friends and more about connecting with new clients.

Posts of praise or support for the crime are being removed from Facebook, along with any unverified footage that surfaces on the platform.

Mt Gox head Mark Karpeles found guilty of data manipulation, cleared of embezzlement, breach of trust

As Earthlings, the kind of space collision we typically fear the most is one between an asteroid and our home planet. Depending on the size of the rock, it could be devastating to to the human race, but as far as the uni...

Three crew members have arrived safely at the International Space Station, following a successful launch and docking of their Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft Thursday.

IBEX is helping astronomers figure out where the edge of our solar system ends and the rest of space begins.

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News Qualcomm has notched a win in its worldwide legal battle with Apple, announcing Friday that a jury in a federal court in San Diego found Apple infringed on three Qualcomm patents and owes the chip giant $31 million ...

If you want the lights outside of your house to automatically turn on at night and off again in the morning, there are a couple of different ways to accomplish it. You could pick up smart light bulbs like the ones sold b...

Medical researchers have been creating new sensors on a wearable patch the size of a Band-Aid that stimulates sweat even when a patient is cool and resting. The sensor measures specific analytes over time that doctors ca...

Product Announcement System developers designing high-end embedded control applications need flexible options to provide scalability as projects increase in complexity. To meet these needs, Microchip Technology Inc... Co...

Videos "We explore a range of projects that turn light into a powerful medium for data communication and object or behavioral sensing," says Xia Zhou, an associate professor of computer science. "Our recent projects... C...

Blog Industry experts answer the question: Given the importance of reliable, energy-efficient battery technology, do you think existing battery chemistries such as lithium-ion will be the solution or will new... Contribu...

News A floating island of solar panels is being tested in Chile as a way to generate clean energy and reduce water loss at mine operations, a cornerstone of the Andean country's economy that uses huge amounts... Contribu...

Videos The paving crew extended a mixer truck's chute over the stainless steel electrodes that make up part of a heated pavement technology developed by Iowa State University engineers. And then came the other... Contrib...

News When cyberthieves attacked Empire Industries' computer network, technology manager Rich Shemanskis could see files in the process of being infected by malicious software. "We were looking at the network... Contribut...

News The Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar mission shows how cracks cutting across Antarctica's Brunt ice shelf are on course to truncate the shelf and release an iceberg about the size of Greater London - it's just a... Contr...

News Access to clean water remains one of the biggest challenges facing humankind. A breakthrough by engineers at The University of Texas at Austin may offer a new solution through solar-powered technology... Contributed...