Much of the world’s energy usage goes toward heating or cooling our buildings. But that could change if engineers are successful at making the perfect insulator.

Say you’re in a video conference, the meeting ends, and you want to talk further with one of the people in a remote office. Now you could actually follow them out the door.

The goal of gene therapy is to deliver vital pieces of D-N-A to places in a patient where her own genetic material is defective. But that’s a real challenge.

A Maryland high school student who recently won the prestigious Intel science competition, is engineering a simple test that could revolutionize cancer detection and treatment.

Drivers aren’t only distracted by text on mobile devices…but also from within their cars.

An entrepreneur concerned about the lack of women in engineering has decided to do something about the problem…through toys.

The sutures that close your wounds soon might also monitor for and treat infections.

Football helmets across the country, including at Virginia Tech, are now equipped with monitoring equipment to detect head impacts.

What if electric companies could predict where power would go out before a hurricane strikes? A Baltimore engineer is working on just such a system.

Some students might not think so, but more essay writing is probably a worthy goal in school and on exams. The problem is…reading and grading them is labor intensive.