Robots are one indication of just how powerful our brains can be. - And right now, roboticist Walter Martinez is at the cutting edge of that research, at Cal State Long Beach. - Walter, who currently serves as secretary for the Robotics Society of So...

What Girls Make VR is doing, amounts to magic. - Since 2016, this landmark pilot program has been teaching girls, ages 13 to 18, to create virtual-reality experiences.  The goal: to knock down social and economic barriers and empower the young student...

(Photo courtesy of Ethan Schur, and used with permission.) - "Can I have this toothbrush?  Pleeeease?" - If we'd said that during our childhood, any parent within earshot would have gone into shock. - But that plea is becoming more common,

(Photo courtesy of Ken Burns, and used with permission.) - When Tiny Circuits founder/president Ken Burns began his 2011 Kickstarter campaign, he simply planned to make, and distribute, some really cool technology.

(Image courtesy of NASA, and used with permission.) - On board the International Space Station, conditions are proving fine for gardening.   And fresh food is now on the menu, for the astronauts. - Dwarf wheat,

CES® 2018, which happened in Las Vegas in January, had a lot of people saying, "Whoa!" - And many of the landmark innovations introduced, have the potential to change the future. - Due to the sheer scope of the show,

"No one raises their daughter to be an engineer," says Beauty and the Bolt co-founder Xyla Foxlin.  "A lot of times, (in a machine shop, nobody looks like us)." - But, Xyla is putting her talents to work to change that. -

Interactive Visualization Lab director Dr. Daniel Keefe has students who can draw in mid-air. - And that's just one aspect of  his award-winning research work in virtual and augmented reality. - Dr. Keefe, or Dan, as he prefers to be called,

Snow globes are magical anyway.  But what if you could shake one and have it play a 360-degree video? - That's exactly what award-winning San Francisco artist, inventor and educator JD Beltran has done, with her current project: Cinema Snowglobes.

  - Originally, co-creators Peter and Sally Solomon envisioned TheBeamer as a book. - Based on Peter's experiences as a physicist, the plan was to share some of the stories of science, and the universe with their grandchildren.   The book,