Technology and Engineering

Quantum machine learning has gained a new strategy for making near-term quantum hardware do more with less. Researchers have proposed...

A new method could help quantum computers avoid one of their most persistent problems: the hardware itself is unevenly noisy,...

A laboratory study has identified a potentially powerful way to intensify the insecticidal activity of zinc oxide nanoparticles: exposing the...

A smartphone-linked sensor that reads dopamine from a single tiny droplet of biological fluid could bring neurochemical monitoring closer to...

A femtosecond laser selectively thinned gold pads, improving solder wetting and preserving stronger, less brittle electronic joints during accelerated aging.

A new study in mice has revealed how the brain may solve one of learning’s most difficult problems: recognizing that...

A hybrid AI system forecast preictal EEG activity in newborns with high recall while identifying the brain regions influencing its...

Paint may be doing far more than adding color to buildings, cars, ships and roads: as coatings weather and peel,...

A nickel hydroxide electrode designed to split seawater has delivered a striking combination of hydrogen- and oxygen-producing performance—but its activity...

A barium ferrite–chitosan nanocomposite used sunlight and near-infrared light to generate heat and strongly inhibit two bacterial species in laboratory...