Engineering

These stretchy skins help robots move across rough surfaces, and potentially promote exploration and environmental monitoring.

David N. Schwartz talks about his latest book, The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age.  

The Curiosity rover will return a Martian meteorite to the Red Planet

Bobsled, luge and skeleton tracks lined with plastic rather than ice could make those sports more accessible worldwide

Crewed flights of the Dragon spacecraft and preparations for the Big Falcon Rocket are on the agenda

Whether a success or a failure, the first test flight of the world's current most powerful rocket guarantees fireworks

With electric self-warming jackets and new insulated fabrics, Team USA hopes to overcome record-setting chills

High-quality beams could be among the first practical applications of the booming field of topological physics

If successful, the rocket’s first test flight will include three boosters flying back to Earth

Most comparisons between human drivers and automated vehicles have been at best uneven—and at worst unfair

The ambitious plan to send astronauts to lunar orbit has drawn skepticism 

Magnetic clothing could be used to store passwords and other data