Shredding old face masks and turning them into construction materials could save them from being thrown into landfills.

How do you improve on the capabilities of regular backpacks? Researchers in China have found two key ways.

Helmet technology has come a long way since the leatherhead days of football. Today, materials science is driving a revolution in head protection tech

Concussions frequently take place during football practice. This robot tackling dummy could help reduce that risk, and also give players an edge.

Boston Dynamics’ Spot, one of the most advanced robots around, can now pick up the underwear you left on the floor.

Microsoft doesn’t just make Windows and Surface tablets; it’s also doing some pretty interesting work with quantum computers.

How do you make a prosthesis feel more comfortable for the people who need to use them day in, day out? This tech could help.

There's still more work to be done, but this is an exciting breakthrough in materials science for better solar cells.

It sounds a whole lot like Little Shop of Horrors, as remade by roboticists. It could turn out to be pretty useful, though.

The inventors of Reachy, a humanoid, open-source robot, have come up with a way to teleoperate its robo-creation using a VR headset.

The groundwork is being laid for the quantum internet -- up in the air, at least. Here's what researchers at a Chinese university recently pulled off.

A prototype device is able to give out canine commands, check to see if they’re being obeyed, and then provide a treat as a reward when they are.

Brainwave data is almost always captured sporadically or intermittently. But with this innovation, it could be captured continuously

Could energy from black holes be harvested to provide power for future off-planet colonies? It sounds crazy. It might very well be. But it could be possible.

How do you transport salmon upstream when there's a dam or other blockage in the way? With a Hyperloop for fish, of course.

Graphene is one seriously exciting material. Its next trick could be powering the next generation of batteries.

One of the picks for this year’s CES 2021 Innovation Awards is a smart hearing aid that uses A.I. to improve the audio experience in a couple of crucial ways.

Think a mouse click takes too darn long? For competitive online gamers, it very well might. The Impulse Neuro-Controller could change that.

There's no longer a reason to leave your home to get a vision check for new glasses. Here's how VisionCheck 2 works.

TCL has been working on its Wearable Display smartglasses tech for some time. At CES 2021, it finally showed off the model it plans to ship.

Small Inspector is a multi-channel smell detector chip that could be used to give your smart devices a sensitive schnozz.

It might sound like something straight out of steampunk, but steam power could turn out to be a revolutionary innovation for CubeSats.

Gazprom Neft, one of the largest oil producers in Russia, is getting into mining -- for Bitcoin, that is.

Movies have taught us that genetically tweaking a killer animal and then releasing it isn't smart. This could be one solution.

Earth has a problem with orbiting space junk. Wooden satellites might be one way to avoid making the problem worse.

Most autonomous cars use lidar and other light-based sensors to see the world around them. But what if they could use radar, too?

Today, our kitchens have things like ovens, fridges, stovetops, toasters, and microwaves. Tomorrow, they might just have built-in robotic sous chefs.

Think drones can only lift lightweight objects? Think again! xFold drones are capable of lifting up to 1,000 pounds.

It’s not exactly breaking news to say that the internet has changed the world. But this insight into migration is one way you might not have considered.

IBM has been considering using digital magnetic tape, a storage medium that was first invented in 1952, as the method of the future.

How do you create the shooting range of the future? Get your hands on an army of autonomous robots to shoot at, of course.

The world of farming is changing. Want proof? Check out this amazing robot-filled vertical farm in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Who doesn't love science? Especially when it means rocketing spiders into space to see how they spin webs in microgravity.

Using machine learning to analyze fossil records can shed light on major extinction events and how they changed history.