DARPA

Russian President Vladimir Putin says a mind-control gun may be ready within a decade.

8 | April 9, 2012 6:10am | By Tuan C. Nguyen

Infrared imaging sensors, which can locate hidden enemies day or night, were once too big to be carried. They are now handheld.

2 | April 17, 2013 8:27pm | By David Worthington

Fueled by connected devices, natural speech recognition has emerged from the research lab as the killer app for, well, everything.

4 | November 2, 2011 9:01pm | By Andrew Nusca

The car still needs a person behind the wheel, but only to take control if something goes wrong.

15 | October 11, 2010 12:46am | By Deborah Gage

Researchers are already working on systems that replicate the human brain -- not just in capacity, but also in cognitive thought processes.

8 | April 12, 2013 1:48pm | By Joe McKendrick

A material once used to create primitive transistors 60 years ago could pave the way for faster electronics in the future.

6 | April 11, 2013 5:56am | By Charlie Osborne

Think the futuristic technology portrayed in the movie Minority Report is fantasy? Think again. Here are seven examples of tech from the film that have become a reality.

5 | January 13, 2010 8:35pm | By Andrew Nusca

Guided missiles and drones often cost millions -- but are they about to become cheaper?

2 | October 4, 2012 4:04am | By Charlie Osborne

With decades of misuse gradually ruining the life-saving drugs, science is searching for new ways to kill dangerous bacteria.

7 | February 14, 2012 3:00am | By John Rennie

An ideal battery would charge quickly, store a lots of energy, and release it quickly. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign offer a potential way to bring such batteries...

3 | March 21, 2011 4:00am | By Melissa Mahony

Nanotechnologists at the University of Texas at Dallas have developed an artificial muscle made of carbon nanotubes.

8 | March 18, 2012 5:42pm | By Ina Damm Muri

The wild promises of artificial intelligence are already in our pockets, thanks to Apple's Siri virtual assistant. But the backstory is far more interesting.

January 23, 2013 5:00pm | By Andrew Nusca

Forget sending people to Mars, one U.S. government agency wants to prepare for a trip to distant stars.

7 | August 23, 2011 5:40am | By Tuan C. Nguyen

It's a nebulous endeavor with no obvious milestones or endpoint. But if it works, a brain map could lead to cures for conditions ranging from Alzheimer's to PTSD.

5 | April 3, 2013 2:12pm | By Janet Fang

The Pentagon is offering more than $1 million in funding for creative initiatives to reverse the "significant national decline" in the number of U.S. college graduates with science and technology...

7 | January 20, 2010 7:57am | By Andrew Nusca

DARPA has awarded the aerospace company an $89-million contract to build a high-altitude "pseudo-satellite."

1 | September 27, 2010 11:59am | By John Herrman

In 2012, the password could go the way of the dodo. Soon, devices will instead know you by your retina, your typing gestures, your voice and other biometric information.

1 | December 26, 2011 5:19am | By Laura Shin

While it's not Spider-Man-worthy -- yet -- researchers at Cornell University have developed a new adhesive device that could one day let humans hang from and scale walls.

10 | February 5, 2010 4:00am | By Christina Hernandez

A proposed installation outside of Abu Dhabi would harness the power of more than a thousand blade-less, waving stalks.

6 | October 15, 2010 3:00pm | By John Herrman

In a neat infographic, Austrian designer Michael Paukner maps out all the satellites and large debris orbiting the Earth -- and which nations are responsible for it.

8 | February 5, 2010 1:49pm | By Andrew Nusca