Last week, President Obama warned about the negative impacts of climate change. A local chemist may be engineering a solution.

Well over a hundred million mobile phones are discarded every year in the US alone. What if the much of the electronics could be made of biodegradable wood?

Want to stop counting and calculating calories on food labels? Soon there might be a way to simply measure them on your plate.

A book called “The Martian” has gone from self-published on the web, to bestseller, to upcoming major motion picture. And it’s being praised for its technical accuracy.

We use all of our senses to experience the real world, but sight and sound dominate in the digital realm. Now researchers are trying to bring in the sense of touch.

Fingerprints have been assumed be able to identify a particular person throughout life. But do they change over time?

Cities are getting warmer…not only because of a potential global warming, but because urban infrastructure creates and traps heat.

A recently launched project is aimed at putting more consistency in healthcare.

We think of our homes and buildings as static shelters. But what if such structures could move and even do tasks like clean the air?

Even the most sophisticated traffic signal timing systems only respond to local conditions. But now researchers are beginning to look at whole cities.