Technology and Engineering

Every year, global agriculture generates hundreds of millions of tonnes of wheat straw, a fibrous residue that is often burned...

In a development that could reshape how lightweight structural materials are manufactured, researchers have demonstrated that banana peel waste—an abundant...

The dream of a quiet supersonic airliner has long been haunted by an old idea with a century-old pedigree: the...

Underwater robots are learning to understand one of humanity's oldest and most instinctive gestures: pointing. In a study published in...

In the layered world of two-dimensional materials, few phenomena have generated as much excitement as the peculiar dance of excitons—bound...

Microplastics have become one of the most pervasive contaminants of the modern era, detected everywhere from the deepest ocean trenches...

In a discovery that reshapes how scientists understand the mechanical resilience of the tissues that line our skin and organs,...

Machine learning systems have become remarkably good at understanding the world when they are allowed to look at it from...

The rapid expansion of low Earth orbit satellite constellations has transformed the prospects for global connectivity, but it has also...

An international team of researchers has unveiled a sophisticated artificial intelligence technique designed to sharpen the analysis of colorectal cancer...