Filters, centrifuges, and oil-gulping ships may be among the contenders for a new X prize designed to avert another Deepwater Horizon disaster

For 60 years, engineers have placed escape rockets on top of crew capsules – future craft may stow them below

Injecting electrons beneath the surface of a silicon wafer could move us closer towards building things atom by atom

Electrons trapped inside strain bubbles in graphene act as if they were in an incredibly powerful magnetic field – good news for future electronics

Combining radio transmissions can help robots maintain communications, confounding hostile jammers and overcoming obstacles

A collection of asteroids that orbit the sun along roughly the same path as Neptune may be a source of comets that could hit Earth

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Genetically modified bacteria that munch on sugar to produce refinable oil could bring down the cost of switching to cleaner liquid fuels

A trick used in 3D-movie theatres could enable totally secure quantum communication with satellites

If a potential dark matter particle – the axion – exists, it could reveal itself in explosions around black holes