When background noise is horribly loud - in a tank, on an airport runway or aircraft carrier - ordinary microphones are useless. Even mics that clamp to the throat or skull are no good because the noise vibrates the sensor.

An Australian company has come up with a remote-controlled crib that rocks your infant to sleep.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign scientists say a hybrid grass that can grow 13 feet high may become a renewable source of fuel in the future.

Tens of thousands of empty storage containers are stacked in towers along I-95 across from the harbor in Newark, New Jersey. They’re heaped there in perpetuity, too cheap to be shipped back to Asia but too expensive to melt down.

Faced with a growing number of medical students and few training hospitals, a Mexican university is turning to robotic patients to better train future doctors.

In a major breakthrough, scientists in Korea report using umbilical cord blood stem cells to restore feeling and mobility to a spinal-cord injury patient.