Once an exotic component, solid state heat pumps or Peltier devices are now pretty mainstream. The idea is simple: put electricity through a Peltier device and one side gets hot while the other sid…

A pilot is in progress to see if invisible barcodes on packaging can improve recycling rates.

Nature - Nature’s survey of more than 6,000 graduate students reveals the turbulent nature of doctoral research.

Motorola’s foldable Razr has a hidden retro throwback to the original.

The Motorola Razr is back, and now it’s a modern foldable Android flip phone.

Back in 1948, the journal Physical Review published a paper entitled “Space-Time Approach to Quantum Electrodynamics” by a young physicist named R.P. Feynman at Cornell University. The paper described a new way to solve problems in electrodynamics using matrices.…

So far, no cure has been found for Parkinson's. It is only possible to treat the symptoms. But a nurse in Scotland can smell the disease before it is diagnosed, and researchers are hoping she can help on the search for a breakthrough.

The way the press covers Donald Trump is unlike any other president in modern American history.  Quantifiably so. Communications scholar David Rozado (and two of his students, Mohammed Dinnunhan and Raymond Hua) developed a data-visualization tool to analyze…

The afterlives of the Berlin Wall.

Before there was recycling, there was the rag trade.

The FPGA revolution that occurred within the past few decades was a boon to many people interested in “antique” electronics. The devices “wire together” logic elements as ne…

The airline found out about the trick after the Russian man posted photographs on social media. He has been stripped of his frequent flier miles.

One of the most iconic flip phones ever is rebooted as a $1,500 foldable smartphone.

MILAN (Reuters) - Italian defense and aerospace group Leonardo (LDOF.MI) has invested in a company developing solar-powered drones potentially capable of unlimited flight with no refueling, it said.

Psychologist Robert Epstein argues in a provocative book, "The Case Against Adolescence," that teens are far more competent than we assume, and most of their problems stem from restrictions placed on them.