Technology and Engineering

A brief, respectful conversation about firearm safety can substantially increase gun owners’ willingness to temporarily store their weapons outside the...

Encephalitis in children can begin with symptoms that seem psychiatric, behavioral, or nonspecific: sudden anxiety, insomnia, confusion, seizures, abnormal movements,...

For decades, machines have been trained to recognize speech, classify environmental sounds and analyze music as separate technical problems. A...

A new artificial intelligence platform designed to detect the electrical faults that can ignite wildfires has received a 2026 R&D...

A newborn who arrives only a few weeks early may appear close to full term, but a new report in...

Uranium contamination in water may soon become easier to detect, thanks to a reusable magnetic sensor that combines gold-enhanced Raman...

Bronchopulmonary dysplasia, or BPD, remains one of the most important chronic complications affecting babies born extremely preterm. The condition develops...

For two decades, photonic-crystal surface-emitting lasers have promised to reshape the design of semiconductor light sources used in demanding fields...

Cities around the world are planting trees at an unprecedented pace, yet many continue to grow hotter. Expanding urban canopies...

Large language models may soon be able to update what they know without undergoing expensive, full-scale retraining, but a new...