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Every day, billions of smartphones, wearables, and connected vehicles quietly harvest data about the world around them—traffic flows, air quality,...

Ethiopian wheat breeders have turned one of the most stubborn problems in agriculture—the fact that a crop variety that thrives...

A team of researchers in Shanghai has developed a soft wearable exoskeleton for the ankle joint that combines real-time gait...

Pressure-sensitive adhesives are the quiet workhorses of modern technology. They bond flexible displays to their frames, hold automotive trim in...

Synthetic pesticides have long been the default weapon against the insects, fungi, weeds, and nematodes that erode global crop yields,...

Financial markets have long been regarded as one of the most hostile environments for forecasting algorithms. Prices swing violently, relationships...

Wearable technology has quietly become one of the most visible faces of the Internet of Things, strapping sensors, connectivity and...

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Artificial intelligence has been billed as the next great leap for the construction industry, promising everything from self-optimizing schedules to...

Laser powder bed fusion, the workhorse technology of metal 3D printing, can build aerospace brackets, turbine components, and medical implants...

Every cook knows the frustration: two pork loins, cooked the same way, can emerge from the heat with completely different...

Self-driving vehicles, delivery drones, and urban robots all face the same brutal mathematical reality: the more of them you put...

A team of researchers in Cameroon, Belgium and South Africa has shown that two humble additives—a natural gum harvested from...

Microbial communities are not made of one kind of data. A single gut sample can yield sequencing reads that reveal...

In a development that could reshape how limb-lengthening surgery is delivered in resource-constrained hospitals around the world, a team of...

A common residue of winemaking, grape pomace is usually destined for compost heaps or animal feed. Now, a team of...

Pulsed electric field ablation has long been touted as one of the most elegant ideas in interventional oncology: instead of...

Human oversight has become the default answer to nearly every anxiety surrounding artificial intelligence in medicine. Regulators demand it, ethical...

Digital twin technology, the engineering concept of a continuously updated virtual replica of a physical system, has been hailed as...

There are few questions in science that grip the public imagination quite like the limits of human longevity, and a...