MIT researchers, working with scientists from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, have developed a new way…
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Technology refers to the tools, systems, and methods developed through scientific knowledge to solve problems, enhance capabilities, and improve quality of life. It spans a broad range of fields—from computing and biotechnology to renewable energy and materials science—and evolves rapidly through research and innovation. Technology not only shapes how we communicate, work, and travel, but also plays a critical role in advancing science itself, enabling everything from high-powered telescopes to gene-editing tools. As new technologies emerge, they raise important questions about ethics, accessibility, and long-term impacts, making their development and deployment a central focus of scientific and societal discourse.
To study the most extreme objects in the Universe, astronomers sometimes have to go to…
For their work on a soft robotic system that can lift more than 200 times…
A chance to switch to renewable sources for heating, electricity, and fuel, while also providing…
Rutgers University-New Brunswick engineers have created a 3D-printed smart gel that walks underwater and grabs…
MIT engineers have designed a robotic glider that can skim along the water’s surface, riding…
Researchers from the Laboratory of Organic Electronics at Linköping University have developed a fuel cell…
NASA is sending a helicopter to Mars. The Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft, will…
Observing the world’s oceans is increasingly a mission assigned to autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) —…
Genome-wide association studies, which look for links between particular genetic variants and incidence of disease,…
A first-of-its-kind laser instrument designed to map the world’s forests in 3-D is moving toward…
NASA and the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) have successfully demonstrated a…
On April 26, 2018, the ESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor Center was officially inaugurated, and…
Which is a better deal: an established, off-the-shelf type of solar panel or a cutting-edge…
Engineered nanomaterials hold great promise for medicine, electronics, water treatment, and other fields. But when…
You don’t get to swim in the sun’s atmosphere unless you can prove you belong…
Cells of a zebrafish eye, computationally “exploded.” Video by Liu et al More than 350…
Since the 1960s, researchers have been interested in the possibility of treating type 1 diabetes…