Even before the electronic ink has dried on the e-page, a new generation of electronic paper may soon be able to bring a moving image to a foldable screen near you, according to Dutch scientists.

Detailed new observations of our Milky Way galaxy reveal thousands of stars being stripped from a neighbor that’s stretched into a twisted shape resembling a wet noodle. The Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, now a vestige of its former self, serves as a snack for the much larger Milky Way.

Snakelike robots that can find trapped survivors under earthquake rubble are being developed by researchers in Japan.

The robots can get into narrow places and their long, thin bodies disperse weight to prevent collapse of damaged structures.

One prototype called Kohga, developed by Fumitoshi Matsuno of Tokyo’s University of Electro-Communications, is more than six feet long and […]

Forget Iraq, OPEC, and that Alaskan wildlife refuge for the moment. Some of the clues to the world’s energy future may lie on your dinner plate.

The plants that grew the rice you’re eating also produce rice straw, which is mostly burned today but could be turned into fuel. Corn already produces ethanol, but stalks left […]

Under the new system, Transport for London will be able to track a commuter’s movements and it plans to retain information on journeys made for “a number of years”

Each card has a unique ID number linked to the registered owner’s name, which is recorded together with the location and time of the exchange every time […]

Thirty years ago today, Canada secured a place in computing history.

A small Toronto company, Micro Computer Machines Inc., announced a rather remarkable new machine: the MCM/70.

Small and powerful, the MCM/70 was one of the first portable, personal computers. It was also one of the first computers to use a microprocessor.