Technology and Engineering

A Nuclear Transporter Just Survived Its Final Full-Scale Crash Test A semitrailer carrying mock nuclear weapons has been deliberately hurled...

Pyridine is one of chemistry’s most familiar molecular frameworks, yet moving a substituent from one position on its ring to...

Europe’s cement industry is facing a decarbonization challenge that cannot be solved by switching fuels alone. A new study by...

Severe bacterial infections can overwhelm the immune system even when effective antibiotics are available. In advanced disease, macrophages—the immune cells...

Wastewater treatment has long been viewed as an unavoidable environmental expense: a system that consumes electricity, produces sludge and releases...

Researchers at Dongguk University in South Korea have developed an electromagnetic-field-responsive gene switch that can activate and deactivate genes inside...

A pair of wearable sensors combined with an artificial intelligence system has produced continuous blood-pressure waveforms that closely resemble those...

All-solid-state batteries have long been promoted as one of the most promising routes toward safer, higher-energy electric vehicles. By replacing...

Researchers in Japan have uncovered how plants distinguish dangerous “jumping genes” from essential genes when establishing DNA methylation, a chemical...

Megacities are often portrayed as the ultimate challenge of the clean-energy transition: vast populations, dense construction, round-the-clock commerce and transportation,...