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Sure, you can drink your tea out of a regular teacup like some kind of animal, wrapping your dripping teabag around a spoon, slopping it down on a saucer or carrying it to the trash leaving a trail of drips. Thus it has always been done. But if you're ready to step your tea game up to the next level and drink drip-free, now there's Cupio.

Autonomous vehicles are coming. And it won't be too long before hailing a self-driving ride-share pod for the trip to work will be the done thing. Startup Cruise has revealed its vision for just such an autonomous shuttle – the Origin.

New research hints at the possibility that more effective, less toxic mosquito traps and repellents could one day be made, based on chemicals in orchids to which mosquitoes are attracted and repelled.

Finding a person's fingerprints at a crime scene isn't always enough to convict them, as they can claim that those prints were left before the crime took place. That may be about to change, as scientists have devised a method of dating fingerprints.

Researchers at ETH Zürich have developed a robotic manipulator that can pick up and manipulate small objects without actually touching them. Using ultrasonic waves, the new manipulator could be used for handling tiny, fragile items.

A study is suggesting a previously unknown protein may play a role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s. The study claims this protein facilitates the formation of the amyloid plaques thought to cause the neurodegeneration associated with the disease.

Although nobody wants a hot smartphone, there's no way that the things could ever incorporate tiny cooling fans. Some day, though, they may stay frosty through the use of a material that absorbs and releases water.

Researchers have discovered a new component in blood that has never been detected there before. Mitochondria are normally found inside cells, but the team has now discovered them floating around on their own in the bloodstream.

A team of Harvard scientists has finally solved the mystery of how acute stress causes hair to turn gray. The researchers discovered when stress triggers the "fight or flight" response, it depletes pigment-producing stem cells in hair follicles.

Glamos is a tiny device that uses LIDAR technology to project a kind of virtual touchscreen anywhere one is needed, turning TVs and projectors into giant motion-controlled displays that you don’t need to actually touch.

This month, La Strada premiered the new flagship of its Sprinter fleet, the Nova EB. Above and beyond a simple van conversion, the Nova is a Class B+ motorhome with a single hunk of weatherproof fiberglass opening up spacious living accommodations.

Every year, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists updates the status of its Doomsday Clock. The closer to midnight that the minute hand moves, the bigger the threat of catastrophe. And the 2020 clock is the most dire warning to date.