Technology and Engineering

A $500 Open-Source Sensor Could Give Urban Railways a Low-Power Way to Count Wheels Urban rail operators may soon have...

Concrete may be the backbone of modern infrastructure, but it has a built-in weakness: it is strong under compression and...

A proposed plasmonic memory cell could give optical neural networks a remarkably compact way to store and adjust information, combining...

A new computer-vision technique could make hidden vibrations and subtle shape changes visible in objects whose boundaries are too complex...

Open-water swimming is often presented as a way to reconnect with nature, improve fitness and support mental health. Yet a...

Glycosphingolipids may be tiny components of cell membranes, but they help govern some of biology’s most consequential decisions: how cells...

Ovarian cancer may soon be examined through a new kind of microscope that relies on the natural light-emitting properties of...

A new study is drawing attention to one of the least visible but most important components in modern vehicles: the...

Drug-resistant epilepsy in children is a medical problem measured not only in seizure counts, but also in interrupted development, missed...

A New Microscopy Toolbox Reveals How Microplastics Meet the Guts of Freshwater Animals Tiny plastic particles may be accumulating in...