Leaving water inside a sodium battery material boosts performance and enables desalination. Sodium-ion batteries could…
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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.
A new material makes lithium batteries longer-lasting and more efficient—great news for electric cars and…
Personalized algorithms can quietly limit what people explore while making them feel more certain they…
Scientists have built microscopic, light-powered robots that can think, swim, and operate independently at the…
A new chip-based quantum memory uses 3D-printed “light cages” to store light in atomic vapor…
Ultrafast UV-C light just took a leap forward, opening the door to lightning-fast communications and…
The fast-acting, long-lasting material provides a new option beyond traditional concrete. Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic…
Researchers have proposed a unifying mathematical framework that helps explain why many successful multimodal AI…
Tiny molecules that can think, remember, and learn may be the missing link between electronics…
New research suggests that artificial intelligence may be most powerful not as a tool for…
By applying machine learning techniques, engineers at MIT have created a new method for 3D…
The world’s energy demand is rising, and NREL’s ULIS power module could help meet it.…
Stanford, CMU, Penn, MIT, and SkyWater Technology reached a major milestone by producing the first…
A nearly invisible material made mostly of air could redefine how windows stop heat and…
As claims about conscious AI grow louder, a Cambridge philosopher argues that we lack the…
The introduction of a nanometric germanium oxide layer drastically improved device performance and stability. As…
A new study shows that promising single-crystal battery materials degrade for reasons scientists hadn’t fully…
A newly validated magnetic state could open a path toward ultra-fast, high-density memory for future…