Technology and Society News

Eco-minded drivers in drought-prone states take note: A new study concludes that producing electricity for hybrid and fully electric vehicles could sharply increase water consumption in the United States.

A University of Arizona researcher has created a new system to dramatically show American cities their relative level of vulnerability to bioterrorism.

CSIRO has developed a prototype portable device that will allow people to do business across the internet on any computer in a trusted manner.

If you could hold a giant magnifying glass in space and focus all the sunlight shining toward Earth onto one grain of sand, that concentrated ray would approach the intensity of a new laser beam made in a University of Michigan laboratory.

Taking a page out of a science fiction story, researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Webb Research Corporation (Falmouth, Mass.) have successfully flown the first environmentally powered robotic vehicle through the ocean.

From deploying robots in the rain forest to testing fitness products in triathlons, engineers are living their dreams and redefining "work."

Engineers have for the first time used manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights.

Most women, and large numbers of men, are interested in having cosmetic surgery, UCLA scientists report in the October issue of the Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

University of Toronto researchers have discovered that differences between men and women on some tasks that require spatial skills are largely eliminated after both groups play a video game for only a few hours.

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