Technology and Engineering

Forests are often portrayed as collections of distinct species, each with a relatively fixed set of biological characteristics. But a...

A new study in Nature is challenging a conclusion that has become increasingly common across science and technology: that disruptive...

Rice University researchers have shown that wrinkles only a few atoms wide can transform graphene from a nearly flat sheet...

A new study suggests that the brain may not choose between goals in continuous, real-world behaviour as if it were...

RNA medicines are moving rapidly from experimental therapies toward practical treatments, but one of the field’s biggest obstacles remains the...

A debate over whether modern science and technology are becoming less disruptive has entered a new phase, with researchers arguing...

Chemical reactions are decided at a fleeting point that molecules occupy only for an instant: the transition state. It is...

Multiple myeloma has long challenged researchers with a deceptively simple problem: the disease may be diagnosed in one patient, yet...

A new robotic grasping system has demonstrated a striking ability to move between radically different robot hands without being retrained...

Breast tumors do not grow in isolation. They develop within a complex structural environment known as the tumor microenvironment, where...