Technology and Engineering

Rare-earth elements are indispensable to modern electronics, magnets, and clean-energy technologies—but separating them from one another remains notoriously difficult. Conventional...

A new photodynamic therapy strategy could make cancer treatment less vulnerable to one of the tumor’s most reliable defenses: low...

A new study in Communications Engineering reports that generative artificial intelligence can now perform “inverse design” of three-dimensional energetic materials,...

A new study in Nature Communications reports that Mexico’s urban system is not just reshaping itself—it is actively shedding population...

Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) remains one of the most devastating gastrointestinal emergencies in premature infants, with its progression driven by a...

Rising heat is already pushing cities toward higher electricity use, but a new study suggests that humidity—not just temperature—will shape...

Indigenous and traditional knowledge is increasingly recognized as a resource for addressing the intertwined crises of climate change, biodiversity loss,...

Civil additive manufacturing is moving from lab demonstrations to real construction sites, and a new research synthesis by Kaur, Lee,...

A new study in npj Flexible Electronics reports a data-driven strategy for building stretchable electrodes whose performance is no longer...

Researchers have taken a major step toward making emotion-sensing brain technologies practical. A new study reports that continuous human emotional...