Maybe your car already has sensors to detect some hazards…but soon it could be communicating with other cars and traffic signals to help you avoid accidents.

While the Mars rover Curiosity searches for life on Mars, engineers are working on new spacecraft – small enough to fit in your backpack – to help find planets with life outside of our solar system.

Casts immobilize broken limbs while they heal, but there’s usually collateral damage to healthy muscle that’s weakened by also being forced to sit idle.

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.

Three weeks from today, NASA will deposit a rover on Mars. They’re calling it “the most advanced robot ever sent to another world” and say getting on the surface will involve “seven minutes of terror.”

Experiencing virtual reality usually requires bulky headgear or stationary immersive environments. But new contact lenses may soon allow visual enhancements on-the-go.

You want to ensure suspicious moles aren’t cancer, and catch any that are early, but a doctor’s eye can only see so much.

Mosquitoes thrive in wet environments, which might seem strange in one respect. How do their fragile bodies survive the impact of raindrops fifty times their weight?

Instead of daily nicotine patches or pills, an experimental anti-smoking treatment aims to prevent the pleasures of smoking through vaccination.

You hate to see the real thing at the beach…but, if a Virginia Tech engineer has his way, swarms of robotic jellyfish might one day keep watch over the oceans.