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The first nation to make bitcoin legal tender will use geothermal energy to mine it.

Every star we can see, including our sun, was born in one of these violent clouds.

The fully functional plant will serve to demo TerraPower’s nuclear tech.

It marks a breakthrough in using gene editing to treat diseases.

Augmented reality (AR) contact lenses will project the digital world into our retinas, perhaps helping us navigate the metaverse.

By digging deep, we could harness enough energy to power generations to come. But it involves fracking.

The pilot project is in 10 stores and is 85% accurate.

Antisense oligonucleotide therapy uses small molecules to alter RNA. Researchers have now used those molecules to alleviate a genetic form of blindness.

What we can learn from our complicated relationship with boredom.

One day, this powerful tool could be in millions of smartphones.

Engineered immune cells have prevented Type 1 diabetes in mice.

This discovery could lead to better treatments for PTSD, borderline personality disorder, and epilepsy.

As droughts threaten water supplies across the planet, some municipalities aim to utilize an untapped resource: sewage water.

This everyday electrical phenomenon had no widely accepted scientific explanation — perhaps, until now.

William Shatner is going to space because Jeff Bezos loves Star Trek.

A socially minded franchise model makes money while improving society.

A new agricultural revolution could forever change the planet.

A new model of the Antikythera mechanism reveals a “creation of genius.”

Solving the supply chain crisis before the global economy tanks is going to require many creative approaches. Flexport’s Ryan Petersen has one that just might work.

Fear that new technologies are addictive isn’t a modern phenomenon.

Argentina’s black market for cash is embracing crypto — but it’s not what crypto proponents expected.

Gain-of-function mutation research may help predict the next pandemic — or, critics argue, cause one.

Alzheimer’s has proved difficult to treat. But solving the mystery of this ultra-rare frontotemporal dementia may unlock new understanding.

The AI remembers that you are 32 years old and like to eat sushi, except on Thursdays.

Mind Bank Ai is the newest entrant in an ambitious idea: using AI to create a kind of immortality.

Meet MIT’s Kate Darling, a robot ethicist who says that we should rethink our relationship with robots.

Buildings don’t have to be permanent — modular construction can make them modifiable and relocatable.

Virtual reality continues to blur the line between the physical and the digital, and it will change our lives forever.

Israeli food-tech company DouxMatok (Hebrew for “double sweet”) has created a sugary product that uses 40 percent less actual sugar yet still tastes sweet.

Since 1957, the world’s space agencies have been polluting the space above us with countless pieces of junk, threatening our technological infrastructure and ability to venture deeper into space.