On the Moon, taking a simple step could quietly damage your body. With weaker gravity, your muscles do less work, your bones carry less weight and, over time, both start to fade. That problem does not ...

Thanks to developments in Japan, it might not be long before moving furniture from room to room becomes a task delegated to those other than the big and burly types. Researchers at the Tokyo ...

I’M IN a lab in downtown Tokyo full of grinning engineering students, who are peering past PC monitors and half-completed gadgets to watch me try and lift 40 kilograms of rice. No mean feat, but ...