Technology and Engineering

Materials that glow under stress have long been a dream for engineers who worry about the silent failure of plastics,...

When an earthquake flattens an Italian hill town, the first images that circulate around the world are often not the...

Scientists in Brazil have built and validated a compact, open-source imaging device that uses artificial intelligence to detect and measure...

Lithium-sulfur and sodium-sulfur batteries have long promised a revolution in energy storage, offering theoretical energy densities far beyond today's lithium-ion...

A soil fungus better known for protecting plants may also harbor molecules capable of killing cancer cells, according to a...

Researchers at the University of Stuttgart have shown that an aircraft can design itself. In a study published in Aerospace...

Robots have long struggled with one of the simplest human skills: picking things up. In cluttered, unpredictable environments—piles of tools,...

In a development that could reshape how clinicians approach wound healing, spinal disc degeneration, and a wide range of musculoskeletal...

In a breakthrough that could reshape how engineers manipulate light at the nanoscale, an international research team has demonstrated a...

Anomaly detection systems promise to flag the unusual before it becomes the catastrophic—a spike in sensor readings that warns of...