A new screening tool could make it far easier for companies to identify the raw materials most likely to threaten...

Pathological scars may soon face a high-tech adversary: tiny, dissolving needles made from water-rich gels that can punch through dense...

Tiny wireless sensors are becoming the nervous system of modern infrastructure, quietly measuring heart rates, electricity demand, air quality, temperature...

Peeling cassava, yams, potatoes and cocoyams is one of those deceptively simple food-processing tasks that becomes difficult at industrial scale....

Artificial intelligence systems are increasingly being asked to make decisions from evidence that is incomplete, ambiguous or contradictory. A new...

A small, power-free cassette could make one of the world’s simplest diagnostic technologies substantially better at finding scarce biological signals....

Childbirth training is moving into the augmented-reality era with a simulator that lets trainees see their hands as “ghost” images,...

A $500 Open-Source Sensor Could Give Urban Railways a Low-Power Way to Count Wheels Urban rail operators may soon have...

Concrete may be the backbone of modern infrastructure, but it has a built-in weakness: it is strong under compression and...

A proposed plasmonic memory cell could give optical neural networks a remarkably compact way to store and adjust information, combining...