Artificial intelligence is transforming the world, but it comes with a hidden cost: enormous heat. Modern AI data centers pack thousands of powerful processors into...

As artificial intelligence advances, future prosthetic arms may be able to move on their own to assist users with daily tasks. But for these devices...

One of the biggest challenges of renewable energy is what happens when the sun is not shining. Solar panels produce electricity during the day, but...

After a legislative ban, a trip to the Supreme Court, and repeated deadline extensions, TikTok recently made a deal to spin out an American...

Earbuds may soon do much more than play music or take phone calls. According to a new international study, the same devices millions of people...

Imagine sitting at your desk during a normal workday. You log into your computer, unaware that a built-in sensing system could be tracking your...

Sodium-ion batteries are emerging as a promising alternative to today’s lithium-ion batteries. While lithium-ion technology powers everything from smartphones to electric cars, lithium is relatively...

Hydrogen is often described as a fuel of the future because when it is used, it produces only water instead of harmful emissions. But making...

Making energetic materials—such as explosives, propellants, and fireworks—is a bit like baking a very sensitive cake. The ingredients must be carefully measured, the mixing must...

Cement is one of the most widely used building materials in the world, but it comes at a high environmental cost. Portland cement alone is...

At the start of the 20th century, electric cars were more common on American roads than gasoline vehicles. In 1900, many drivers relied on lead-acid...

Imagine if a self-driving car could spot a pedestrian before they step into view from behind a building. Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have...

An MIT research team is rolling out an open-source version of a low-cost, mobile pollution detector that could enable people to track air quality more widely.

Navigating through the myriad of information, especially during pivotal flight moments, pilots often find themselves saturated with data. A solution has emerged from the MIT...

Researchers have found a new way to harness properties of light waves that can radically increase the amount of data they carry. They demonstrated the...

December in 2021 marks the 30-year anniversary of the first website in North America, launched at SLAC. As the World Wide Web was poised to...

One nanotube could be great for electronics applications, but there's new evidence that two could be tops. Rice University engineers already knew that size matters...