Technology and Engineering

Tropical forests are often treated as a single planetary machine for absorbing carbon, but a new satellite-based analysis suggests that...

A new study is turning ordinary drone flights into a high-tech early-warning system for aging bridges, combining aerial imagery with...

Shengxi Huang, an associate professor in Rice University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been elected a fellow of...

A waste stream once viewed as an expensive environmental liability could become an active ingredient in safer, longer-lasting batteries. Researchers...

Artificial intelligence is moving rapidly from systems that answer questions to agents that can pursue objectives, make decisions and act...

MXenes, a family of atomically thin materials known for combining high electrical conductivity with chemically active surfaces, may soon become...

A new class of living medicine could one day help people with diabetes control blood glucose without injections, implanted devices...

The Yellow River Basin, one of China’s most important and environmentally pressured river systems, is revealing how profoundly water extremes...

Pyrogallol, a naturally occurring chemical with applications ranging from photography and dye production to pharmaceuticals and metal processing, may deserve...

Forests are often portrayed as collections of distinct species, each with a relatively fixed set of biological characteristics. But a...