For the past three years, Motorola has distinguished itself from all the bigger players in the smartphone market with a radical idea: Modular phones that can be altered and upgraded. The company’s Z ...

Modular housing has come into its own—recent years have seen a crop of stylish, higher-quality modular construction units rolling off the assembly lines and being fit together (like Lego blocks) on ...

It would have sounded quite improbable only a few years ago that a humanoid robot could fluently move from making coffee in a ...

All the different types of small modular reactors generate heat the same way: by splitting heavy atoms and capturing the heat ...

Everywhere I turn today, I’m reminded of just how modular our world has become. Think about today’s automobiles. Many times, it’s far easier to replace an assembly rather than replace a single smaller ...

The world’s tallest modular hotel — which will carry a brand of Marriott International — is on track to be stacked in late fall in New York City with prefabricated and pre-furnished guestrooms. Once ...

Dubbed simply the 16, 170 and 400, these new devices are what Teenage Engineering is proudly calling "the poor man's modular." They're reasonably priced introductions to the complicated and often ...

The world's tallest modular hotel is coming to New York City. The 360-foot-tall AC Hotel New York NoMad will include 168 guest rooms that will be built in a factory in Poland before being shipped to ...

When Windows 7 launches sometime after the start of 2010, the desktop OS will be Microsoft's most "modular" yet. Having never really been comfortable with the idea of a single, monolithic desktop OS ...

Ford fans do not argue about much more fiercely than they do about pushrod versus modular V8s, because that split defines not ...