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From Farming to Fitness Trackers: 4–H National Youth Science Day

More than 100,000 students around the country were expected to explore Incredible Wearables in the program's exciting 10th year.

Exploring a Different Kind of Team Sport

Learning how to balance strategy, practice, programming and teamwork at robotics camp

How to Explore Otherworldly Oceans

The tools we build to explore our deep oceans might one day explore ocean world across the solar system. A new observatory called ABISS that can transmit video and long-term chemical measurements at broadband speeds from the seafloor using a system of flashing lights instead of a traditional tether...

What Companies Are Leading the Way in Wireless Charging Technology?

Why Can't We All Charge Our Phones Wirelessly?

Charging your phone wirelessly all day long may not be far off

Facebook’s Anti-Semitic Ad Categories Persisted after Promised Hate Speech Crackdown

After being contacted by ProPublica, Facebook removed several anti-Semitic ad categories and promised to improve monitoring

Never Mind the iPhone X, Battery Life Could Soon Take a Great Leap Forward

Addressing the amount of energy consumed by the CPU when running particular software could make a major difference to how long we need to charge our devices in future

On the iPhone's 10th Anniversary, Think about How Much Your Smartphone Knows about You

Your phone itself is extremely secure, but that alone can't protect your data

The Only Safe E-Mail Is Text-Only E-Mail

Webmail is convenient for advertisers but carries with it unnecessary–and serious–danger

Self-Destructing Circuits Mimic Mission: Impossible Tape

Electronic devices that decompose on schedule will be a boon to security tech and medical implants

VR Theme Park Hopes to Push Public Pickup

VR World is a virtual reality theme park that presents curated video games and 360-degree artistic cultural experiences in order to help the public overcome some of the barriers that have prevented mass adoption...

Is the Power Grid Getting More Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks?

Rising computerization opens doors for increasingly aggressive adversaries, but defenses are better than many might think 

How Washington Gridlock Delays High-Speed Broadband to Rural U.S.

Former Congressman Rick Boucher talks about how Congress and electric power lines could break the federal government’s net neutrality deadlock

Tracing the Sources of Today’s Russian Cyberthreat

Some of the most talented and dangerous cybercrooks and cyberwarriors come from Russia, a longtime meddler in other countries’ affairs

Magical Technologies Just over the Horizon

The products that really wow us seem like pure wizardry

The Imperfect Crime: How the WannaCry Hackers Could Get Nabbed

Even if they can exchange their ransom, the criminals will have a hard time accessing their money anonymously

"Textalyzer" Aims at Deadly Distracted Driving

A new device promises to tell police when a driver has been sending messages while behind the wheel, but is it legal? Larry Greenemeier reports.

Demystifying the Black Box That Is AI

Humans are increasingly entrusting our security, health and safety to “black box” intelligent machines

Robots with Their Heads in the Clouds

Rather than each carrying its own “brain,” they could share a single, remote one

The Scientific Reason You Don't Like LED Bulbs—and the Simple Way to Fix Them

LED flickering is even more pronounced than that of fluorescent lighting