NASA Is Building A New Exoplanet-hunting Tool

The $10 million instrument is expected to start looking for exoplanets in 2019.

IBM Wants To Accelerate AI Learning With New Processor Tech

Resistive chips could speed up neural network training 30,000 times.

DARPA's Satellite Repair Robot Makes House Calls

DARPA has a vision of a mobile robotic servicing system designed to rendezvous with and repair ailing telecommunications satellites.

ARPA-E Funding A Xerox Machine To Print Super Solar Panels

Researchers at PARC say theyre developing a new digital printing process that could make it much cheaper to mass-produce concentrated solar photovoltaic systems.

Solar Is A Booming Business, But Its Still Not Generating Much Of Our Power

Solar capacity is on the rise, but it still accounts for only about 1 percent of the worlds electricity.