The government agency tasked with seemingly impossible technical projects – DARPA – is engineering a way to understand extremely complex systems…like climate, economics, and disease.

With all the stories about cyber-crime, are you terrified to click on email attachments or links? A Fairfax company says its new technology can delete the fear.

You’ve probably been in an office where the temperature setting’s way too cold…or on an overheating plane stuck on the tarmac. Enter the personal thermostat.

Virginia Tech’s new engineering building is equipped with more than two-hundred vibration sensors, likely a record. They can reveal more than you might think.

You’ve probably heard that keeping a smart phone by your bedside can interrupt sleep, but there may soon be an upside to that habit.

In a nuclear accident or attack, first responders can be exposed to high levels of radioactive material. Heavy shielding has been impractical, but a new device could save their lives.

Researchers are in the early stages of engineering artificial cells that go through basic biological functions.

In this cold weather, the last thing you want is for your house to leak heat. A new technology can pinpoint problems in houses as it passes through a neighborhood.

Printing 3-D objects is becoming more commonplace…and now researchers are trying to use such techniques to make working biological organs. But there’s a catch.

We simultaneously celebrate as the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Day. Now bacteria are being engineered to do something similar.