Wouldn’t it be great if we could re-capture some of the energy used on all those holiday lights? A newly engineered material may allow waste heat to be turned into energy at unprecedented efficiencies.

The Sunday drive home from a holiday can be filled with unpleasant surprises, like bad traffic on usually fast moving back roads and highways.

Thanksgiving dinner could one day go high tech. A digital revolution in cooking might make even the worst cook's food perfect every time.

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.

Your clothing could, one day, communicate much more than your fashion sense.

Halloween is every day at a medical center where doctors are using the latest virtual reality technology to scare people, on the way to curing them.

In the midst of the debate over use of unmanned drones, a computer scientist says robots might actually be programmed with ethics…to save lives.

It’s not always easy to know when a person is agitated or excited. Sometimes you may not even know when you are. So a new wearable device has been engineered to detect stress, bad or good.

Cancer cells can take over your body when they evolve in ways that make them resistant to chemotherapy drugs. A new lab technique is shedding light on the process.

This week, researchers reported a key step toward a possible treatment for AIDS…and it was discovered by players of a computer game.