Carnegie Mellon's noninvasive brain technology allows users to move robotic fingers by thinking about the motion, offering new possibilities for people with motor impairments.

Students at Ygnacio Valley High School in Concord invented a robotic exoskeleton hand that could one day help people with ...

A “shrink it and pink it” approach has often been used to adapt products for women. But these reimagined objects challenge an ...

There are new hints that the fabric of space-time may be made of "memory cells" that record the whole history of the universe ...

You may not know his name, but Steve Jobs was so desparate to hire Bill Atkinson that he went to extraordinary lengths to recruit him for Apple - and it proved to be a smart move.

When Brenda Coffee married her charismatic boss Philip Ray, 14 years her senior, the wide-eyed 21-year-old imagined an exciting future of love, wealth and shared adventures.

Scientists reveal that purple is not a real color. It does not exist on the light spectrum. The brain creates purple when red ...

The dishwasher, chocolate-chip cookies, and the first version of the Monopoly board game were all created by women.

He invented the computer – and stops you getting spammed Turing’s mathematical genius allowed him to foresee the possibility and function of computer like machines before the existence of the ...

Q&A The Researcher Who Explores Computation by Conjuring New Worlds Russell Impagliazzo studies hard problems, the limits of cryptography, the nature of randomness and more. Russell Impagliazzo, a ...