From spears and the invention of the wheel to smartphones and robots, human societies have been building and using tools from the beginning. Human tool...

Scientists in Finland have demonstrated the first fully solution-processed solid-state polariton laser, potentially opening a simpler and cheaper path toward advanced laser and photonic...

A little-known branch of engineering mathematics is moving beyond theory and finding potential uses in everything from robots and aircraft to extremely small nanotechnology...

A temperature difference of just 50°C can determine whether an ultrathin magnetic film stays smooth or begins breaking apart, according to new research that...

Scientists at Colorado State University have created one of the coldest plasmas ever produced in a laboratory, achieving electron temperatures within about one degree...

Engineers have developed a new way to protect tall buildings from strong winds and earthquakes by allowing some floors to move rather than trying...

Uranus is one of the strangest planets in our solar system, and new research shows that its unusual orientation causes the planet’s magnetic environment...

Scientists have developed a new manufacturing technique that could help make high-efficiency solar panels more powerful without making them much harder or more expensive...

Researchers have developed a low-power artificial intelligence system that can identify drones while using dramatically less electricity than conventional computer-based systems. The technology could make...

For about 40 years, physicists have puzzled over a strange problem: What happens when an electrically charged particle encounters a hypothetical magnetic monopole? Some calculations suggested...

Carbon dioxide is best known as a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change, but scientists are increasingly exploring ways to turn it into...

Astronomers have discovered an enormous stream of gas flowing toward a young system of three stars, potentially explaining why its planet-forming disks are strangely...

The Orion Nebula is one of the brightest and most famous objects in the night sky. It can even be seen without a telescope, and...

In an exciting new experiment, scientists in Innsbruck, Austria, have managed to create mysterious quantum states—known as Schrödinger cat states—without needing extremely cold conditions. This...

Scientists create a new polymer-based electrical insulation for circuits that could help put more power in smaller spaces. Progress in the field of integrated circuits...

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made an intriguing discovery about photosynthesis, the process through which plants and some bacteria convert...

Did you know that silk fabric is made from … well, worm spit?