Engineering
Bowling at an elite level requires exceptional balance, flexibility and control.
Visions of Star Trek's "replicator" in your kitchen.
New technology could change the way things are made - and the world economy.
Isaac Asimov's thoughts about robots have found new vitality.
Silicon-based material might prove useful in electronics, but multiple teams are claiming credit for creating it first.
Studying lizards' tendons and bones allows researchers to develop seriously sticky 'skin.'
Mechanical engineers study snakes' sophisticated frictional properties to build more nimble rescue robots.
Most groundwater contamination problems are not unique to hydraulic fracturing.
Mid-February is a noteworthy time for the birth of innovators and big thinkers.