Our first President is sometimes called the country?s first engineer and also had a fascination with farming. So George Washington would be proud that the first self-steering vehicle you can buy is? a tractor.

Do you have trouble finding clothes that fit well? The National Science Foundation sympathizes and is funding research toward a technology that might become the 21st century tailor.

Challenging some referee calls on the football field could take a big technological leap from video?to radio.

Predicting weather has always been tricky, especially snow. Mother Nature can fool even the best computer models. But this week, forecasting technology took a big leap forward.

Whenever we get snow, everyone wants to know: How much? Even when the snow has stopped falling, that?s not so easy to answer.

Investigators are still trying to determine the exact cause of a deadly helicopter crash into the Potomac. While the cause may not be known for quite some time, pilot disorientation has been a common cause of such crashes in the past.

As lawmakers propose a world-wide tsunami warning system, engineers are hoping to learn important lessons from this one.

The number of time-dependent technologies is increasing all the time. So, each year, more clocks must figure out precisely when to chime in the New Year.

Safeguarding sensitive information on the Internet depends upon math that even the world?s fastest computers can?t handle. Is that method secure?

As you type in your credit card number to purchase that holiday gift, do you know what?s stopping computer hackers from swiping it as it travels through cyberspace?