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Tulane University’s Richardson Memorial Hall is being turned into a "smarter building living laboratory" for its architecture students.

The RapMan 3D printer is transparent, simple and significantly cheaper than previous 3D printer models.

Full Monty: The Allosphere lets researchers literally climb inside their data to explore in 3D.

Smart applications like the free AsthmaMD help patients create diaries that caregivers can access to make sure directions are being followed and medications are being taken on time.

The world’s largest globe, covered with over 10,000 organic displays, hangs 60 feet above the lobby floor in Tokyo's National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation.

The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority has used smart meters and analytics to quickly identify problems such as water main breaks.

Not long after Jupiter formed, it got pulled slowly toward the sun, carried on currents of swirling gas. Saturn also got pulled in, and when the two giant planets came close enough to each other, their fates became linked. Their sun-bound death spiral came to a halt when Jupiter was about where Mars is now; then the pair turned and moved away from the sun. The researchers who developed this model of the early solar system call it the "Grand Tack," a reference to the sailing maneuver.

The new DuPont Fabros data center in Santa Clara, Calif., will likely house Apple's new family of cloud-computing services.

The second dual screen smartphone, the S2, will debut later this year from Sony.

NJIT Professor Atam Dhawan predicts that point-of-health solutions, optical imaging, and other technologies will drive medical advances over the next few years.