Emerging Tech

Researchers at the University of Michigan have built the world's smallest computer: a one cubic millimeter machine that is designed to monitor the eye pressure of glaucoma patients.

The United States Navy's Office of Naval Research fired a laser that penetrated through twenty feet of solid steel. Now they hope to have a full-fledged weapons system by 2015.

At the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Washington, Cornell University and Wake Forest University scientists showed off technology that could lead to printing skin tissue.

Two scientists at Yale have developed a type of anti-laser that they feel could one day be used to help treat cancer.

Living amidst a cornucopia of products that aren't products, we're learning that cultivating our gardens means working together. The final post in a series of chats about the Chrome notebook, with blogger Adam Rothstein.

You might think that genetic engineering is an incredibly complex, expensive, and high-tech process. And that�s where you�d be wrong.

Harnessing the piezoelectric effect, researchers at Cornell propose a wind-power generator that has more in common with rustling leaves than airplane rotors. Videos after the jump.

GOOD's Nicola Twilley wonders how the industrial analysis of qualities like texture, consistency, and juiciness will transform age-old culinary cultures, in the second in a joint series exploring the science and technology of food.

Researchers have developed a prototype for coiled nanowires that could one day serve as stretchable circuitry. But can they make them walk down nano-stairways on their own?

An Android-powered projector-in-a-lightbulb inspires images of a world in which every gadget wants a heart�or at least a brain.