Don?t throw out those wisdom teeth so fast. Promising research suggests they may one day help replace teeth lost in adulthood.

You?ll remember from school?trees take up carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. Might an answer to global warming be to engineer artificial trees?

Devices implanted in the brain are being used to treat various diseases. Could they also be used to improve our minds?

The most widely used man-made material is concrete. It?s ingeniously simple, basically just mix water with cement. But there?s a problem.

Your future house might be constructed in multiple locations, then the pieces simply sent to your lot and attached together.

A local professor just won a big prize?one million dollars?for a simple system that helps prevent the slow poisoning of tens of millions of people.

Researchers are looking for better ways to protect troops. Even wearing body armor, soldier's limbs are often left unprotected from knives or bomb shrapnel.

Surveillance video can detect suspicious actions, but now a system is being designed to spot less obvious threats, and identify people even when it can?t see a face.

Imagine a one-time cancer treatment without side-effects or surgery. That?s the promise of a new nanotechnology.

Those who need to quickly respond to storms ? like road and utility crews, and first responders ? have a new tool for getting a jump on the weather.