There are approximately 840 million people who do not have access to electricity. The Waterlight project aims to brighten their lives.

Perhaps the biggest hurdle to humankind’s expansion throughout the solar system is the prohibitive cost of escaping Earth’s gravity.

MedSENS consists of a probe about the size of an ear-plug, which contains innovative measuring sensors; the rescuer pushes it into the ear.

A practical inorganic material in the fabrication process enables their devices to run 1 million times faster than previous versions.

"ClearBuds" use a novel microphone system and one of the first machine-learning systems to operate in real time and run on a smartphone.

Israeli startup ThermoTerra is turning that vision into a novel renewable energy system that harvests energy from fluctuations in humidity.

New findings from Australian researchers show fitness trackers, pedometers and smart watches motivate us to exercise more and lose weight.

Engineers at MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have designed a heat engine with no moving parts.

The Innsbruck quantum computer stores information in individual trapped calcium atoms, each of which has eight states.

Research team has succeeded for the first time in producing a molecular electric motor using the DNA origami method.

Researchers have now demonstrated how the carbon atoms in mixed waste can replace all fossil raw materials in the production of new plastic.

A team at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country has used food industry waste to develop a nasal plug designed to tackle nosebleeds

By harvesting water vapor from the air and condensing it into liquid, atmospheric water generators can essentially pull water from the air

Arizona-based startup, has literally reinvented the wheel by developing a new type of wheel that ditches the need for pollutive rubber tires

A new flexible thermoelectric generator can wrap around pipes and other hot surfaces and convert wasted heat into electricity.

Can a $1 device that attaches to a mobile phone become a pivotal tool to help solve the $1 trillion #foodwaste problem? Researchers say yes!

In a new study, University of Chicago scientists find that holes can also improve technology, including medical devices.

Researchers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas created the first ever solid-state optical nanomotor.

New research shows rail systems around the world could be harnessed to help mitigate climate change and clean our air of CO2.

Devices made of readily available oxide and carbon-based materials can produce clean hydrogen from water over weeks - per new research.