For the first time, stem cells purified from fat have been used to heal an injury in a living animal.

Self-assembling nanotubes built from chemicals that make DNA could provide the basis for new artificial joints that beat those made with titanium.

Your organization has invested thousands, maybe millions, of dollars trying to install a vendor’s product to give your Web site more capacity or optimize your supply chain, and it just doesn’t work as expected. Now what?

A Chinese man has paid the equivalent of $1.1 million for a mobile phone number. He believed it was a lucky number. We happen to think the lucky one was the guy selling it.

Visitors to Greg Welch’s office might pause in the doorway and stare — and rightly so. Welch, a researcher in human-machine interaction at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, sits in front of a computer display that’s 4,000 pixels wide — more than three times the width of a 17-inch monitor. The display […]

Can a machine read a person’s mind? A medical device company is about to find out.

The company, Cyberkinetics Inc., plans to implant a tiny chip in the brains of five paralyzed people in an effort to enable them to operate a computer by thought alone.

With government funding and access to a large swath of radio spectrum, four RFID developers are starting work on a new generation of RFID products aimed at bringing greater safety and new wireless applications to U.S. roads. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration has called on Mark IV Industries, Raytheon, SIRIT and TransCore—companies […]