U.S. patent awards continue to rise sharply, feeding a perception that those laying claim to intellectual property are at an unfair advantage.

Researchers in Stavanger, Norway, have developed a theory which can be important for future oil and gas exploration.

Clarkson University researchers have developed technology that uses the vibrations caused by passing traffic to power wireless bridge monitoring sensors.

MIT and University of Rochester researchers report important advances toward a therapeutic device that has the potential to capture cells as they flow through the blood stream and treat them.

A spectacular new image shows how complex a star's afterlife can be.

Harvard chemists have built a new wire out of photosensitive materials that is hundreds of times smaller than a human hair. The wire not only carries electricity to be used in vanishingly small circuits, but generates power as well.

New technology in development at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science could lead to more successful hip and bone replacement surgeries, make better use of solar power and even prevent your computer from overheating.

The successful test flight clears the way for long-duration polar ballon flights that will capture unprecedented details of the Sun's surface.

Researchers have just produced the most intense operating positron (antimatter electron) beam anywhere in the world.

Astronomers have unmasked hundreds of black holes hiding deep inside dusty galaxies billions of light-years away.