Glare from headlight beams bouncing off precipitation and back into a driver’s eyes can drastically reduce visibility. But a new technique can make rain and snow practically invisible

Engineers say a new artificial fingertip allows robots to sense textures even better than you can.

In his recent State of the Union address, President Obama touted the importance of projects to map the human brain. A team of local researchers has already started.

Raindrops hurdle to earth from great distances…and some Virginia Tech students think the energy built up along the way could be tapped.

Future chemotherapy treatments might have fewer side effects by taming cancer cells instead of killing them.

A couple of engineers were wondering if airplanes could be more fuel efficient, and decided to try a radical redesign.

A study released this past week said smokers who quit before age forty live about as long as non-smokers. Soon that quitting might be aided by a vaccination

Each year a vaccine against new flu viruses needs to be made…and some people who get a shot still get sick. But soon just one vaccination might protect against all flu strains.

If he could only have waited a few years, Redskins’ quarterback RG-3’s surgery on his A-C-L and L-C-L knee ligaments might have had better odds of success.