Springtime flowers are bursting out everywhere. A Harvard professor didn’t just accept the beauty. He wondered how it worked.

Springtime flowers are bursting out everywhere. A Harvard professor didn’t just accept the beauty. He wondered how it worked.

Frustrated by how quickly the battery drains in your electronic devices? A new engineering innovation may one day dramatically extend the time you can stay unplugged.

Do you want to invest the time to watch tomorrow’s N-C-A-A basketball final? Maybe not if it’s a blowout. Then again, what if it’s the game of the year?

You don’t need dams, waterfalls, or waves to get hydroelectric power anymore. A new technology is tapping energy from even slow-moving streams.

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.

The foam packaging that protects your new stuff is, of course, thrown away immediately…then lasts forever as trash. But if you’ve “got milk,” it might be made biodegradable.

A newly engineered material may allow waste heat to be turned into energy at unprecedented efficiencies.

Strong winds, like those we’ve had recently, can cause power outages when trees or branches fall on electric lines. Robots may soon come to the rescue.