A first-of-its-kind laser instrument designed to map the world’s forests in 3-D is moving toward…
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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.
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…
Using a machine-learning system known as a deep neural network, MIT researchers have created the…
A ‘deep learning’ algorithm trained on images from cosmological simulations has been surprisingly successful at…
NASA scientists are hard at work trying to unlock mysteries of our planet’s ocean surface…
Using a homemade, high-tech microscope, scientists at the School of Medicine have revealed how a…
MIT engineers have developed a continuous manufacturing process that produces long strips of high-quality graphene.…
With aid of computer algorithm, researchers develop peptides more powerful than those found in nature.…
A biologically inspired membrane intended to cleanse carbon dioxide almost completely from the smoke of…
Startup’s optoelectronic chips could reduce energy usage by up to 50 percent in data centers…
Natural bacterium isolated from mushroom crop residue converts plant-based material to butanol directly. A team…
Researchers have found that a solid oxide protective coating for metals can, when applied in…