Election officials have all the information they need to ensure that voting in November will go smoothly. But will they use it?

Should crewed exploration of Venus come before we try to go to Mars?

Researchers still don’t have a way to neutralize the former nuclear-weapons complex’s 1,936 capsules of radioactive cesium and strontium

The robotics startup will be launching into space next year an advanced manipulator with integrated sensing and computing

Former chief engineer of Makani speaks to Spectrum about energy kites and the future of AWE

Chinese company sets out first steps towards extracting space resources

Makers of Internet-connected gadgets should have to certify that their products can resist cyberattacks

VotingWorks’ Arlo software creates a document trail and calculates a confidence value for an election’s results

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Solid learning objectives and assessing students are among the keys to success highlighted in a recent IEEE conference

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Swiss Formula Student team uses AI and sensors on the vehicle to calculate velocity and control sideslip

While the rest of the world struggled to shift work and school online, Estonia was already there

“Look Mum, No Computer” celebrates volts over bits

In the time of COVID, pulse oximeters are the new thermometers, on the shelves of many medicine cabinets. But do they belong in wristwatches?

The new Roomba i3 is a solid budget-ish model from iRobot

IEEE also mourns the loss of Northrop Grumman executive Robert Nafis and others

Two high school students create Virginia app

Too many of the COVID-19 models have led policymakers astray. Here’s how tomorrow’s models will get it right

GitHub rockets into number two spot in Hired survey; Facebook trails

At very low temps and high magnetic fields, “particles” emerge that behave like fractions of an electron