Innovation Now

How much fuel could be saved if all flights into San Francisco used lower power for descent? What factors reduce flight delays? Sherlock has the answer.

What started out as a class designed to get undergrads excited about engineering is on the way to becoming a one-of-a-kind comprehensive center on the study of ... coffee.

NASA is increasingly using artificial intelligence to help code and read the petabytes of data collected each day. Now those same big data techniques are revolutionizing biomedical research.

Playing solitaire on your phone when you can’t sleep? The blue light coming from your screen might just be keeping you awake!

Wildlife managers could soon be using NASA satellite data to monitor deer populations.

The UK’s familiar red phone boxes have a new purpose that will make them a vital part of the present, while paying tribute to an icon of the past.

The search for environmentally friendly packaging that won’t clog our landfills has taken researchers back to the farm.

For the first time, scientists have 3-D snapshots that will give them an accurate picture of precipitation.

Wounds for a person with diabetes can become life-threatening. But a unique new bandage has a certain attraction to healing.

Americans are hit with record rainfall, tornadoes, hurricanes, and winter storms. And one of the accompanying problems can often be power outages. So in a world full of frozen food, how do you know what food is safe to eat when the power goes off?