Technology and Engineering

Quantum communication has a stubborn distance problem: photons carrying quantum information are easily lost, while the operations used to protect...

A traditional medicinal tree may be offering a modern route into one of medicine’s most difficult problems: how to calm...

Low back pain may be common, but one of its most stubborn biological causes is hidden deep inside the spine:...

Variational autoencoders are among the most widely used tools for teaching machines to compress complex data into a compact internal...

Many of the hardest problems in engineering and computing share an apparently simple question: among an enormous number of possible...

A new machine-learning framework could allow hospitals, research institutions and other data-rich organizations to build stronger predictive models without pooling...

Poor lighting can turn an ordinary photograph into a computational puzzle: details disappear into shadows, colors shift, and sensor noise...

A low-cost nanocomposite made from ordinary kaolin clay and two metallic elements has shown strong and repeatable performance in breaking...

A gene-editing treatment delivered through the nose has reduced acute brain inflammation and improved early motor performance in mice after...

Cancer immunotherapy is entering a new phase in which the goal is no longer simply to “release the brakes” on...