Carbon dioxide is getting a bad rap these days. But chemists now say the global warming villain might be turned into useful products.

You might one day carry a wristwatch-size device for a wide range of do-it-yourself heath tests.? Cooler still, it might be powered by music.

How happy are we?? I mean on the scale of, say, a country.? There may be a tool for measuring a population?s happiness ? Twitter.

Catastrophic structural failures can be caused by something as simple as a loose bolt.? So researchers are exploring a new acoustic monitoring system.

They may be small, but they?re not simple.? How do insects make decisions and react?? Some future technologies may come from studying?flies...and an age-old practice.

As the Space Station and Shuttle orbit today, so do millions of pieces of man-made debris.? How do we clean up space?

You have a dangerous infection?with lots of deadly microbes streaming through your blood vessels.? A new treatment idea would use magnets to pull the germs from your body.

Wound dressings can actually cause infections if they?re not changed regularly or disposed of properly.? But a newly-engineered gauze should remain germ-free.

New research is uncovering the secrets of how a snake slithers?and inspiring ideas for technologies that might save human lives.

Each year, almost 2-million people get infections while in a hospital?and more than 80-thousand of them will die from related complications.?