If that sounds like a mouthful, just call it SCUTTLE – the open-source mobile robot designed at Texas A&M University. SCUTTLE is a low cost (under $350) robot designed for teaching Aggies…

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Airships lost out to conventional aircraft after a series of disastrous crashes. But now safer technology could be the key to their return.

A British historian famously wrote that work expands to fill available time – but what was he actually saying about inefficiency?

A normal day at the archives takes a strange turn when _Appendix_ editor Felipe Cruz finds a box full of personal effects recovered from a 60-year-old PanAm ...

Sometimes I have a picture of a software design in my head and I just want to draw it. If I don’t need to collaborate with anyone remotely I might just draw it freehand. For collaborations an…

With its cheap geothermal energy and low crime rate, Iceland has become the world’s leading miner of digital currency. Then the crypto-crooks showed up.

How curiosity and relentlessly experimentalism inspired Charles Birdseye to forever change the way Americans eat with the frozen food industry

Samples of lung fluid from patients with the mysterious illness led to a breakthrough in finding a possible cause. More than 2,000 people have been sickened, many from illicit marijuana-based products.

A hundred years ago, the Palmer Raids imperilled thousands of immigrants. Then a wily official got in the way.

We took a look at one busy road outside of Orlando where a dozen people have been struck and killed by drivers in recent years. The mix of high-speed traffic with people walking, biking, and taking transit is a dangerous combination; in the event of a crash…

“We will make decisions that hurt the business if they help people’s well-being and health,” says Instagram’s CEO Adam Mosseri. To that end, next week Instagram will expand to some users in the United States its test of hiding Like counts from everyone but…

Large marathons frequently involve widespread road closures and infrastructure disruptions,
which may create delays in emergency care for nonparticipants with acute medical conditions
who live in p...

Telecommunications regulators have levied hefty financial penalties against illegal robocallers and demanded that bad actors repay millions to their victims. But years later, little money has been collected.