Wireless charging isn’t just for phones and laptops. It could also power medical devices like heart implants.
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The guilt-free air conditioning, called “cooling paper,” is made from recyclable paper and doesn’t use any electricity.
A black swan event is rare but disruptive — and might be predictable.
SpinLaunch’s launcher, which is larger than the Statue of Liberty and works like the Olympic hammer-throw event, just came online in the New Mexico desert.
The same parts of the brain that help us navigate complex social interactions can also drive us to make wildly bad investments.
Using image analysis tools developed for astronomy, researchers are predicting cancer therapy responses.
An accident left this musician with one arm. Now he is helping create future tech for others with disabilities.
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The famous social robot is about to start rolling off the assembly line.
Russia’s cyberattacks against Ukraine have been prolific and ongoing for several years. The future of war may begin in cyberspace.
Technology designed to listen for atomic bombs can also hear tornadoes.
One day, we could fly across the U.S. in half an hour. A state-of-the-art hypersonic flight testing facility at UTSA could help make that dream a reality.
Scientists want to use dream hacking devices to improve your creativity and memory.
Asteroid Bennu is still far more likely to fly right by us than to make impact.
It could analyze a photo of the Martian surface in just five seconds. NASA scientists need 40 minutes.
Michio Kaku predicts, among other things, how we’ll build cities on Mars and why cancer will one day be like the common cold.
It walked enough miles to nearly circle the Earth twice.
The new brain tumor treatment targets a cancer that kills 75% of patients within a year.
Air conditioning may keep a room cool, but using it is heating up the planet. It is time for something new — or old.
South Korea is piloting a CCTV system it hopes will save lives.
What are we supposed to do when experts look at the same data yet reach starkly different conclusions?
The world needs a moral defense of progress based in humanism and agency.
A lucky discovery involving lithium-sulfur batteries has a legitimate chance to revolutionize how we power our world.
Space missions in 2022 will include massive rockets and asteroid collisions. This is also the year space tourism starts to hit its stride.
Space planes could radically lower the cost of spaceflight.
In the early 20th century, a young biochemist named Alexander Oparin set out to connect “the world of the living” to “the world of the dead.”
China has reached a new record for nuclear fusion at 120 million degrees Celsius.
Scientists created the mineral lonsdaleite in a lab and tested its strength using sound waves — before it was obliterated.
The two-year pilot program will be a test of harm reduction strategies.
The massive craft could carry 100 humans to Mars and revolutionize space exploration.
One home was printed in 28 hours. Now, Alquist 3D is building 200 more.