Technology and Engineering

Cadmium contamination in paddy fields is one of the most persistent threats to rice production and food safety. The toxic...

India’s crop map may be carrying an invisible environmental price tag. A new study in Nature Communications examines how restructuring...

Rice University has received a five-year, $15 million award from the U.S. Army Research Office to establish a national research...

Solid-state batteries are often presented as the technology that could finally move electric vehicles beyond the limits of today’s lithium-ion...

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom — A new commentary published in Frontiers in Medicine argues that the next transformation in healthcare will...

Soft electronic skin may soon become tougher, more repairable and far less wasteful, thanks to a new bio-based material developed...

University of British Columbia researchers have developed an edible coating made from seaweed-derived agar that kept strawberries fresh for at...

A team of researchers at Tsinghua University has proposed a mathematical framework for building and understanding increasingly complex artificial intelligence...

Manufacturing assembly is entering an era in which the most valuable co-worker on the factory floor may not be human....

A tiny robot inspired by dragons, qilins, chimeras, fish, and sea lions has demonstrated an unusual combination of speed, strength,...