A research team has developed an "intelligent artificial muscle" capable of simultaneously performing sensing and actuation ...

Spanish researchers have demonstrated a scalable manufacturing process for carbon nanotube (CNT) fibers with electrical ...

A new approach has been proposed to address the problem of "overconfidence"—one of the most critical risks of artificial ...

Perovskites, a class of material with a characteristic crystal structure that can convert light into electricity, have proved ...

Tens of thousands of students studying for final exams around the world Friday regained access to a key online learning ...

Researchers from The University of Osaka, Kyushu University, and the University of Victoria have developed a new method ...

In 1985, the Innovative Design Fund placed an ad in Scientific American offering up to $10,000 to support clever prototypes ...

Over the past few decades, computer scientists have developed increasingly advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems that ...

Mechanical engineers have designed a more effective and energy-efficient technology for cooling computer chips. Published in ...

A flurry of new schemes to launch Europe-based social networks faces a steep, rocky road to seduce users away from American ...

Until recently, AI's role in research felt like having a useful assistant. It could summarize a paper, clean up a dataset or ...

In managing airport traffic, small errors can cause catastrophe. A group from the CMU Robotics Institute's AirLab used the ...