For an arachnophobe, the sight of a spider making its way up a wall sparks fear. For a materials scientist, however, it can provide inspiration. In the current issue of the journal Smart Materials and Structures, researchers describe just how a spider manages to stick to ceilings in apparent defiance of gravity. The discovery could […]

Though their work is dismissed by most physicists, a determined cadre of scientists is still chasing after what could be an energy jackpot—and their experiments are producing heat and nuclear byproducts that can’t be otherwise explained.

Cloistered in their ultra-modern laboratories a 90-minute drive south of Tokyo, about 900 engineers work on research and development for Japan’s leading mobile phone carrier, NTT DoCoMo.
Among them, researchers in the mobile communications, multimedia and network laboratories dream up applications of the future, not just for fourth-generation mobile telephony (4G), but for 5G as well. […]

According to the New York Times, the iPod was put together starting in 2001 by a hardware designer team led by Tony Fadell, a young engineer who had worked at the Apple spinoff General Magic, at Philips Electronics and briefly at RealNetworks, led by Rob Glaser, who has developed the Rhapsody music service.

Biologists are crafting libraries of interchangeable DNA parts and assembling them inside microbes to create programmable, living machines.