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It’s not a UFO—this drone is scooping animal DNA from the tops of trees By Charlotte Hu / Jan 18, 2023
This startup plans to collect carbon pollution from buildings before it’s emitted By Charlotte Hu / Jan 13, 2023
What can ‘smart intersections’ do for a city? Chattanooga aims to find out. By Rob Verger / Jan 9, 2023
Why European researchers hooked up a quantum machine to a supercomputer By Harry Guinness / Dec 8, 2022
Magnetic microrobots could zap the bacteria out of your cold glass of milk By Charlotte Hu / Dec 7, 2022
Our first look at the Air Force’s new B-21 stealth bomber was just a careful teaser By Rob Verger / Dec 5, 2022
This device will allow the marines to make drinking water from thin air By Kelsey D. Atherton / Nov 29, 2022
What this jellyfish-like sea creature can teach us about underwater vehicles of the future By Charlotte Hu / Nov 29, 2022
The leap second’s time will be up in 2035—and tech companies are thrilled By Harry Guinness / Nov 26, 2022
The ocean’s iodine helps create clouds, but high levels burn through the ozone layer By Tatyana Woodall / Nov 17, 2022
‘Workhorse of batteries’ could give California tribe’s new clean-energy microgrid a jolt By Colleen Hagerty / Nov 16, 2022
IBM’s biggest quantum chip yet could help solve the trickiest math problems By Charlotte Hu / Nov 10, 2022
Inside the ambitious project to turn a 1961 Volvo into a powerful modern hybrid By Kristin Shaw / Nov 8, 2022
Switzerland sets world record for longest passenger train—and it’s electric By Andrew Paul / Oct 31, 2022
Scientists are getting energized about a massive battery ‘genome’ project By Rob Verger / Oct 26, 2022
What Pong-playing brain cells can teach us about better medicine and AI By Charlotte Hu / Oct 21, 2022
Shark skin is nearly impossible to engineer. A 3D look shows why. By Marina Wang / Hakai Magazine / Oct 20, 2022
The Brilliant 10: The top up-and-coming minds in science By Mara Grunbaum , Yasmin Tayag / Oct 19, 2022
As California plans for a new desalination plant, take a look at how these facilities work By Charlotte Hu / Oct 17, 2022
The US’s first utility-scale renewable energy triple threat is online in Oregon By Sara Kiley Watson / Oct 7, 2022
High-speed rail trains are stalled in the US—and that might not change for a while By Bill Gourgey / Oct 5, 2022
Bella Hadid’s spray-on dress was inspired by the science of silly string By Charlotte Hu / Oct 4, 2022
Worries of disaster follow blast close to a second Ukrainian nuclear power plant By Rob Verger / Sep 20, 2022
A century ago, wind power was a farming norm. What happened? By Hal Harvey & Justin Gillis / Sep 20, 2022
We have quantum computers—now Amazon and Harvard want a quantum internet By Charlotte Hu / Sep 12, 2022
Iran grabbed two of the Navy’s Saildrones earlier this month. Why? By Kelsey D. Atherton / Sep 12, 2022
This Florida teen is making a business out of rebuilding old-school auto tech By Kristin Shaw / Sep 6, 2022