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From joy rides to road trips, plenty of people in the U.S. enjoy having the chance to get behind the wheel of a car.

A novel way of making cement could help drastically reduce the greenhouse gas emissions generated during the process, MIT's Technology Review reports.

Biomedical engineering research and development has become so sophisticated over the past decade that the latest prosthetic technologies are providing amputees with unprecedented functionality and mobility.

Budding engineers from throughout the world are taking place in competition to develop an engine that can run on only a small amount of fuel.

Engineers recently designed nanoparticles capable of delivering high doses of antibiotics directly to bacteria.

U.S. regulators made a historic announcement recently, approving for the first time ever a drug created in a genetically engineered plant cell.

A breakthrough in engineering research could help scientists overcome the obstacles that have thus far prevented them from understanding the science underlying nuclear fusion.

As the U.S. continues to increasingly rely on Canada as its most important foreign oil source, environmentalists and scientists are concerned about the repercussions of the partnership.

With its latest generation of chips, Intel has once again shown its ability to continually improve processor speed, although doing so has become markedly more difficult.

A group of technology billionaires recently announced they would bankroll a project that aims to mine asteroids for precious metals and other minerals.