November 4, 2015 New gadget can recharge a cell phone in 30 seconds A new device invented by Eesha Khare of Saratoga, Calif., can fit inside a cell phone’s battery and recharge it fully in less than half a minute. And the inventor of the gizmo is just 18 years old.
November 4, 2015 Vote for your favorite student Google doodle Kids from across the United States submitted more than 130,000 doodles to Google's 2013 Doodle 4 Google competition.
November 4, 2015 Learn to write software in 9 weeks? New coding boot camps promise to launch tech careers Want to launch a lucrative career as a software engineer but don't have a computer-science degree? Maybe it's time for a hacker boot camp.
November 4, 2015 Online effort nets $1.3M to restore Tesla's NY lab The brains behind the pencil behind popular cartoon website TheOatmeal.com sought the help of the Internet to raise $850,000 for a museum to inventor Nikola Tesla. Instead he's raised $974,737 -- all in just seven days.
November 4, 2015 This glass could be as strong as steel Researchers in Japan have developed a type of glass that is close to being unbreakable. Reported last month in the journal Scientific Reports, the research team claims the glass is as strong as steel and hope it could one day lead to stronger windows and table tops.
November 3, 2015 Math master: D-Wave device is powerful, but is it quantum computing? Does this computer owe its high performance to bizarre quantum effects?
November 3, 2015 Quantum network secretly running for 2 years A national laboratory has been running a quantum network that could make perfectly secure Internet communications a reality
November 2, 2015 Nuclear fusion just got a boost with the arrival of this stellarator Researchers could be one step closer to producing energy through nuclear fusion with word that a device called the stellarator is set to go online later this year in Germany.
October 27, 2015 FDA warns Google-backed 23andMe to halt DNA testing services The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned 23andMe Inc, a company backed by Google Inc, to halt sales of its genetic testing services because they have not received regulatory clearance.
October 26, 2015 Scientists withdraw claim about making stem cells Scientists who reported that they'd found a startlingly simple way to make stem cells withdrew that claim Wednesday, admitting to "extensive" errors in the research.
