Cutting kirigami-style slits in stretchy films could make for bandages, heat pads, and wearable electronics…
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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.
Using solar energy and nanoparticles to make saltwater drinkable, researchers from Yale and Rice University…
It seems like getting something for nothing, but you really can get drinkable water right…
The breakthrough means masers — the microwave version of lasers — could now be used…
Researchers out of the Camera Culture Group at the MIT Media Lab have developed a…
U.S. Army-funded researchers at Brandeis University have discovered a process for engineering next-generation soft materials…
Mechanical engineers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and four…
MIT engineers have developed a new technology that could be used to evaluate new drugs…
If you’re a rock climber, hiker, runner, dancer, or anyone who likes recording themselves while…
In a world-first, an ESA-led team has built and fired an electric thruster to ingest…
Lithium-ion batteries are widely used in home electronics and are now being used to power…
A team from EPFL and NCCR Marvel has identified more than 1,000 materials with a…
Lenses are no longer necessary for some microscopes, according to Rice University engineers developing FlatScope,…
The new MATISSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) has now successfully made…
When it comes to soft assistive devices — like the wearable exosuit being created by…
Electronics, the lifeblood of the modern world, could soon be part of our daily diet.…
Scientists have discovered a novel chemical state of the element manganese. This chemical state, first…
Wind and solar power could generate most but not all electricity in the United States,…