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The heat from within your laptop disperses slowly, like ripples in a pond. What if we could turn that heat into channeled waves that travel away from the source up to a hundred times faster? Researchers are giving it a go – with crystals.

Given that they're such good swimmers, the structure of fish is increasingly being copied in the design of underwater robots. Scientists have now discovered that by adjusting the stiffness of their tails, those bots can swim much more efficiently.

American scientists have created a "Tunabot," that they claim can match the swimming speed of an actual tuna.

A solar-powered wheelchair designed by students at the University of Virginia has won first prize in a competition, Change My Life in One Minute, to mark World Cerebral Palsy Day.

Vistik is a new type of silicone that takes on different shapes in response to pressure, while still maintaining support and elasticity.

The University of Virginia’s PureMadi program is aimed at producing water-purifying filters for use in the third world, as made by local villagers.

Kinsight is an experimental system that uses networked Kinect cameras to locate missing objects within a household.