For centuries, the sharp snap of a breaking solid — glass shattering, a bone fracturing, ice splitting — has been one of the most recognizable sounds in nature. Now, scientis...
A student in Turkey sits for a high-stakes university entrance exam. On his face, a pair of glasses that look entirely ordinary. They aren't. Built into the frames is a tiny...
Somewhere in a research lab in Dresden, Germany, a laser is burning microscopic channels into paper. Not to cut it. Not to etch a design. To make it waterproof.That se...
For decades, lithium-ion batteries have been the dominant chemistry powering everything from smartphones to electric vehicles. They've improved incrementally, year by year, w...
Google just fired a shot across the bow of the memory chip industry. And the companies most likely to feel the impact — Micron Technology and Samsung Electronics — may not ha...
Somewhere in Ukraine, engineers are testing a weapon that sounds like it belongs in a science fiction screenplay. Small, fast, relatively cheap drones that hunt other drones...
Lumentum Holdings is about to pour more than $1 billion into a new U.S. manufacturing facility dedicated to producing lasers and optical components for artificial intelligenc...
The arms race against deepfakes has mostly been fought with software — detection algorithms trained to spot the telltale artifacts of AI-generated imagery. But a growing cont...
DJI just did something it has never done before. The Chinese drone giant, which commands an estimated 70% of the global consumer drone market, has released its first aircraft...
Sony may be preparing to let you ditch the box under your TV entirely.A patent originally filed in 2013 — more than a decade ago — has resurfaced in recent weeks, reve...
A student sits in a university lecture hall, eyes fixed on an exam paper. To any proctor watching, nothing looks amiss. No phone hidden under the desk, no cheat sheet tucked...
A QR code smaller than a single bacterium. Etched into silicon carbide. Capable of surviving for centuries — possibly millennia — without degrading.That's the claim fr...
South Korea just made a bet that the future of solar energy isn't on rooftops or in open fields. It's in parking lots.The country's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Ene...
A thin line of vibration. No heat. No adhesive. And a sealed paper package that holds together under the stress of a supply chain designed to punish anything fragile.T...
Solar energy isn't coming. It's here.What was once dismissed as a niche technology for wealthy environmentalists and desert installations has become the dominant force...