A trainee surgeon, who is also a self-confessed 'technology geek,' has figured out a way to save the U.K. National Health program a lot of money by taking advantage of 3D-printer technology.
President Obama and a former astronaut have both invited a teen to science events after his electronics project frightened teachers at his school.
Alabama schools are updating science standards, including once controversial topics and focusing on more hands-on work for students.
Fly ash, a byproduct of coal-burning electric power plants, could save billions of dollars if used in the repairing of U.S. bridges and roads, scientists told a meeting of the American Chemical Society in Anaheim, Calif., Tuesday.
An powerhouse alternative energy start-up is transforming the way North America manages organic materials, turning food and animal waste into renewable energy and other useful products at its plants in British Columbia, Ontario, California and throughout the Mid-Atlantic, Midwest and Northeastern states.
A Dutch company has come up with a plan to replace concrete and asphalt highways with roads built from recycled plastic waste.
Organizers of an online Mideast peace movement say they are launching the Internet's first online university for Israelis and Arabs across the Middle East.
When great ape keepers at the Smithsonian's National Zoo were deciding how to add more variety and enrichment to their animals' lives, they turned to Orangutan Outreach and a program that had seen great success in 12 other zoos around the world: Apps for Apes. Keepers introduced the Zoo's six orangutans to iPads: Bonnie likes to bang on the drums, Kyle prefers the piano and 25-year-old Iris is content to listen to the soothing sounds of the koi pond while watching animated fish splash.
A high school football player says his Apple watch saved his life—and afterward got him an offer for an internship at Apple.
For more than a century, scientists have been attempting to harness the immune system to fight cancer -- trying to get the antibodies and cells that protect us from viruses and bacteria to kill diseased cells. Recently, a tantalizing success was repeated in multiple melanoma patients.
An infant who needed CPR every day often stopped breathing. With hopes dimming that the baby would survive, doctors tried an experimental technique never before tried on a human, they created a splint made out of biological material that effectively carved a path through Kaiba's blocked airway.
Scientists have created an intelligent surgical knife that can detect in seconds whether tissue being cut is cancerous, promising more effective and accurate surgery in future.
3D printing, in which a three-dimensional object of virtually any shape can be created from computer data, has enormous potential in the field of medicine, as one pioneering British surgeon has shown. Orthopedic surgeon Craig Gerrand used 3D printing to create a pelvis – the first of its kind – for a patient who had lost his to cancer.
Aidan Dwyer is just 13 years old but is already a patented inventor of solar panel arrangements. He noticed a pattern one day in the tangled mess of branches above him and began to investigate whether there is a secret formula in tree design and whether the purpose of the spiral pattern is to collect sunlight better.
A time of 11 years, two months isn't much to brag about if you're running the Boston Marathon. It's pretty good if you're on Mars. NASA's "Opportunity" rover has finally traveled 26.2 miles from its landing site — the length of a standard marathon race — across the surface of Mars.
Brutus, a two-year-old Rottweiler and a quadruple-amputee, is currently living a frisky life thanks to his four new prosthetics and the woman who rescued him in a parking lot.
Don't be alarmed by the hitchhiking robot—it's relying on the kindness of strangers to help him cross the U.S. from Massachusetts to California this summer.
Pets of the future, rejoice! Expensive and uncomfortable spay and neuter surgery could be a thing of the past— a simple shot in the haunches will do the job.
At the Stanford Institute of Design, public-policy wonks mix with computer scientists, engineers, and med students all pushing each other to innovate. The program measures success by how its students improve lives in the developing world.
A teen's life-saving sleeping bags are keeping Dublin's homeless warm and giving former homeless people jobs.
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