In the midst flu season, one option for keeping an eye on outbreaks could be social media.

Well, Santa did it again! Against the odds, delivering all those presents last night. But maybe we shouldn’t be so surprised.

If you’re replenishing a lot of Christmas tree water, you can thank the efficiency of flow from the trunk to its needles. Studying such natural flows can help engineers design things.

Someday you might not need to worry about whether your medication is in stock…because it can be made on demand.

The recent presidential campaigns focused a lot on improving our nation’s infrastructure, but hardly at all on climate change. The two issues may be more related than politicians think.

Even the most sophisticated traffic signal timing systems only respond to local conditions, and might cause more harm than good on your drive home.

Thanksgiving dinner could one day go high tech. A digital revolution in cooking might make even the worst cook's food perfect every time.

Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries power things like our cell phones, laptops, and cars. But, as you’ve probably heard, sometimes they can literally explode.

Your future flu shot could be as easy as swallowing a pill. One concept in development has a Halloween-like twist – the needles come out inside your body.

A remake of the popular 1980s T-V show MacGyver is new on C-B-S this fall. Its creator says the show is about a hero whose superpower is his brain.