HOW DO YOU concoct a plausible fictional near-future, in which people’s reliance on technology has gone too far? If you read “The Dream Hotel”, a gripping new novel, you can discern one recipe. First, ...

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Tracker has become one of the most successful modern procedurals, and its unique premise - of a reward seeker tracking down missing people and items - has a lot to do with that. That unique premise ...

Imagine tiny robots zipping across the surface of a lake to check water quality or searching for people in flooded areas. This technology is moving closer to reality thanks to work by researchers at ...