The national company Waste Management is about to turn garbage that?s currently burned or put in landfills into useful products through a high-tech method.

What?s next for cell phones?? Fancy editing of high-quality video?? Data mining?? Not yet, unless you want to carry around very bulky equipment.

If the swine flu comes back with a vengeance in the fall, will local governments be able to handle mass vaccinations and distribution of medicines?

If the Centers for Disease Control (C-D-C) green lights a vaccine for the H1N1 swine flu, it will take at least four months ? possibly longer ? to make it using today?s standard process?which includes virus growth in chicken eggs.?

Touch screens are commonplace, even on our phones.? But most only respond to bare fingers and can?t detect varying pressures.? New engineering may soon allow many more applications.

Cracks in plastic usually require repair or replacement.? Now engineers are creating materials that can heal themselves?much like a cut on your skin.

It?s the most complex organ in your body.? As science reveals more about how the brain works, engineers are devising?fixes for when it doesn?t..

When you get a vaccination, it takes time for your body to make the antibodies that protect you from a threat.? But now scientists are engineering instant immunity.

Recovery from orthopedic surgery involving an implant relies on new bone attaching and growing.? Nanotechnology research using stem cells could help.

Millions have eye diseases destroying retina cells that convert light to electrical signals, often blocking an otherwise healthy vision path to the brain and causing blindness.