Technology and Engineering

Researchers in Iran have engineered a dramatically shrunken version of one of diagnostics' most promising low-cost platforms, achieving a more...

Coinage-metal chemistry has long been viewed as a delicate balancing act between light emission and molecular fragility, but a new...

Musculoskeletal disorders now constitute one of the largest and most expensive health challenges on the planet, and a sweeping new...

In the sweltering, permanently air-conditioned city-state of Singapore, scientists have completed one of the most ambitious real-world tests yet of...

Optogenetics, the technique that allows researchers to switch defined cells on and off with light, has become one of the...

In the world of scientific decision-making, some of the most consequential judgments are made not by machines or direct measurements,...

When regulators, judges, and clinicians demand that artificial intelligence systems be "explainable," they rarely stop to ask a deceptively simple...

JavaScript has long been the backbone of the interactive web, but its ubiquity has also made it the weapon of...

Artificial intelligence has conquered computer vision largely by brute force: feed enormous datasets into deep neural networks and let statistical...

Social media platforms have long promised that the people we connect with online can help us discover the things we...