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This August, a Microsoft subsidiary in Japan experimented with a four-day workweek. The company worked Monday through Thursday as part of a work-life balance project, and the workers received paid le…

In 2013, the National Transportation Safety Board told ABC News that 97 percent of the airplane fatalities that occurred didn’t happen on commercial flights, and that small planes were involved in an…

According to studies, if automatic braking systems were installed in every vehicle, the number of rear-end crashes would likely be cut in half… which is one major factor behind the decision by dozens…

Harvard researchers have created a new depth sensor inspired by the eyes of a jumping spider. It could soon be in everything from microbotics to wearable devices. 

The tiny arachnids have incredible d…

In October, Hyundai Motor Group became just the latest player to get into the flying car game when the company hired Dr. Jaiwon Shin as Executive Vice President and Head of the company's new Urban Ai…

The motorcycle marketplace continues to face challenges as it adjusts to an evolving customer base less interested in loud pipes and excessive power. In response to these evolving consumer demands, d…

Last week, a 28-year-old man was working at US Food Corp in Hicksville, NY, when his right arm became entangled in a piece of machinery and was severed.

According to local authorities, his arm was amp…

Sysco has entered an agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor to resolve gender discrimination allegations at four plants. 

From November 2013 to December 2014, investigators from the Office of Fed…

NASA earlier this year launched an initiative to partner with private companies to try out their products in orbit, and automotive, consumer goods and even entertainment enterprises lined up to send …

When we've covered artificial skin in the past, the one thing that we've neglected: can you tickle it? Right? What fun is a robot if it can't kick in at the tickle party? So, researchers at the Unive…

Back in June, we watched as Composite Metal Foam (CMF) stopped armor-piercing bullets. Researchers fired a .50-caliber armor-piercing round 514 meters per second at the foam, and it bounced off.

Now, …

NASA's Artemis program wants to put Americans back on the moon by 2024. But the program has had its share of problems. The $20 billion to $30 billion price tag has ruffled some feathers, not just on …

Last weekend China hosted a Helicopter Exposition focused on displaying some the country’s latest military developments. In addition to a potential Black Hawk helicopter look-alike, Parrot Laboratory…

Back in 2012, then-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn announced that the automaker would revive its Datsun brand more than 25 years after the iconic Japanese brand was originally phased out. Although you could …

On October 30, 2012, an industrial accident at North Jackson, OH-based aluminum manufacturing company Extrudex killed 21-year-old John Tomlin Jr. A rack containing 4,000-5,000 pounds hot aluminum par…

This spring, German air taxi startup Lilium debuted a five-seat flying car prototype and showed footage of its — sort of — debut flight.

The company, founded by engineers from the Technical University…

The Uniti One is a new electric hatchback from Uniti, an EV startup headquartered in Sweden with engineering and production in the United Kingdom.

The project started at an open innovation research la…

San Francisco-based OpenAI has trained a pair of neural networks to solve a Rubik's Cube with a single robot hand. 

The team places the cube into the palm of a dextrous 24-joint robot hand that mimics…

Researchers from Northwestern University and Washington University at St. Louis have created a new implant that could save people who are overdosing on opioids. 

The autonomous device is about the siz…

Last year, we brought you a story about how easy it is to fool your phone’s facial recognition security tech, by simply scanning and photographing your head and then 3D printing it. Not a big deal.

We…