Technology and Engineering

Preterm birth leaves many infants vulnerable to brain injury, but detecting damage early is notoriously difficult. A new viral science...

Europe’s wetlands—once widespread across the continent—have long supported wildlife, protected plants, and sustained human communities. But centuries of drainage, agriculture,...

A new study hints at a practical route to building hybrid quantum networks that connect different kinds of single-photon emitters—specifically,...

Grocery shoppers seeking chips, mayonnaise, or salad dressing labeled “made with avocado oil” may not be getting the real thing....

Neural operators (NOs) are gaining traction as flexible tools for learning the dynamics of complex systems. By framing spatiotemporal evolution...

A new study in Light: Science & Applications reports that a ferroelectric crystal can spontaneously generate a striking “woven” pattern...

Science, technological innovation, and farmer ingenuity could, in principle, reshape food systems faster than ever. Yet real-world change often stalls...

A new microscopy approach is turning phase imaging into a more practical, “background-free” task by merging adaptive optics with surface...

Biodiversity doesn’t boost ecosystem productivity in the same way everywhere when climate extremes hit. A new global synthesis draws on...

A new “optical singularity protractor” could help laboratories measure rotation with unprecedented sensitivity, using a neuromorphic sensing approach rather than...