Last month, three MIT materials scientists and their colleagues published a paper describing a new…
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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.
Companies often employ number-crunching data scientists to gather insights such as which customers want certain…
The worldwide quest by researchers to find better, more efficient materials for tomorrow’s solar panels…
First nanotechnological approach enables the design and replication of complex single-stranded DNA and RNA origami…
Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have found…
Josh Tenenbaum, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, directs research on the…
We have a long history of yelling at our machines — cars that break down, televisions broadcasting…
Imagine that instead of switching on a lamp when it gets dark, you could read…
Cell biologists traditionally use fluorescent dyes to label and visualize cells and the molecules within…
New research at the University of Waterloo could lead to the development of batteries that…
Neural networks, which learn to perform computational tasks by analyzing huge sets of training data,…
Incorporating guanidinium into perovskite solar cells stabilizes their efficiency at 19% for 1000 hours under…
Researchers from the University of Warwick have developed a new ‘double-glazing’ solar power device, which…
By shrinking samples of metallic glass to nanoscale size, Yale scientists have discovered they can…
EPFL researchers have teamed up with startup Xsensio to develop a tiny, fully portable system…
Engineers from MIT have developed a 3D printing technique that uses a new kind of…
“Two-dimensional materials” — materials deposited in layers that are only a few atoms thick —…
Imagine working in an office where, once you’ve finished one task, you had to wait…