AAA is about to roll out the nation's first fleet of mobile electric-vehicle quick chargers. The trucks are poised to hit the road in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Knoxville and Tampa, Florida.
The new Canadian program to reduce gun violence by promoting photography is called Pixels for Pistols. It aims to take guns off the streets by issuing a free Panasonic Lumix point-and-shoot camera to anyone who turns in a working firearm to the Winnipeg Police Service. So far, the program has collected hundreds of guns and rounds of ammunition
Facing unfavorable odds, the U.S. scored a huge victory, sticking a landing on the surface of Mars early Monday, setting down the largest and most sophisticated mobile laboratory ever deployed, which is now beaming back photos of the red planet. NASA ground control engineers flew into a frenzy of high-fives, hugs and cheers after NASA's Curiosity rover survived a perilous seven-minute plunge to the surface of the red planet.
A new medical technology allows blind folks to be able to 'see' with their tongues. Incredible!
For 6 years, 18-year-old Alex Deans has been working on a device known as the iAid, a navigation system that uses GPS to help the blind give up their canes.
Students working at Istanbul University have designed a sporty electric car that can travel 1,500 miles (2,500KM) using just $17 in electricity. A petrol-based car would need 26 times that much money for such a trip in Turkey.
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Born with a backward foot, little Buttercup could only walk in great pain -- until his owner came up with a novel idea for a duckie prosthetic.
Solar Impulse has had a long journey since May 3, when the solar plane began its first flight across the U.S., flying day and night without a single drop of fuel. At 11:09 p.m. local time Saturday the plane reached the East Coast.
Could computer games be the solution for persuading children with cystic fibrosis to complete their physiotherapy? For such patients, daily breathing exercises are necessary to clear mucus from the lungs, but kids would rather be doing other things, such as playing computer games Doctors in the US have now combined the two.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Wednesday it would be investing $20 million to bring new national education standards into the classroom using game-based learning, social-networking and other approaches to capture the imagination of bored or unmotivated students.
Japan is preparing to bolt turbines onto barges and build the world's largest commercial power plant using floating windmills off the coast of Fukushima, to help cut its reliance on atomic energy.
People a mile apart were able to read minds in a guessing game by having their brains wired together.
Droneport will allow unmanned aircraft to deliver medical supplies and other critical cargo to people in the remote areas of Africa.
The Federal Communications Commission approved new rules that allow phone companies to utilize new technology to block auto-dialed calls and spam texts.
A 16-yr-old girl won the Google Science Fair with a test kit she invented that is cheap, easy to use in Africa, and takes 30 minutes to diagnose Ebola.
Tech giant Microsoft will spend millions over the next three years to help high schools hook students on computer science as a career.
Code for America is a new kind of public service. The 'Peace Corps for geeks' has developed apps that have trimmed Boston's costs for digging out fire hydrants after a snow and have made Philadelphia city services more accessible.
Mitsubishi electric car owners in Japan will soon be able to use the family car as an emergency generator, using their EV's batteries to power a home.
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