Inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, an MIT team has designed a technique that could transform flat panels into medical devices, habitats, and other objects without the use of tools.

Advances in machine learning and shape-memory polymers are enabling engineers to design for mechanical performance first and ...

MORAINE, Ohio—President Trump spent much of last year courting foreign investment in U.S. factories, promising to replace jobs lost to the global economy. The rise of a Chinese automotive glass plant ...

The modern industrial era blurs the lines between tangible machinery and interconnected computer systems. Step forward to the era of Cyber-Physical ...

Ford Motor shut down a battery factory and laid off 1,600 workers after President Trump and Republicans gutted government support for electric vehicles. By Jack Ewing Jack Ewing covers the auto ...

How new equipment and methodologies are improving reliability, yield, and time-to-market for multi-die assemblies.

ProbeLibrary, a fast, specific and flexible format for quantitative real-time PCR, is described. The ProbeLibrary concept is based on the fact that just 90 short probes provide transcriptome-wide ...

National security, unlocked. Each Thursday, host Mary Louise Kelly and a team of NPR correspondents discuss the biggest national security news of the week. With decades of reporting from battlefields ...

Imagine unlocking your phone in a cafe, unaware that a hacker is secretly videotaping you. Theoretically, they could crack your Android code by analyzing your hand movements with computer vision ...

Have you ever worked with a group of people trying to solve a problem? There are different opinions, different considerations, and each person’s perspective provides a different angle on the problem.