TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION

Every transparent OLED demo I’ve seen so far looks amazing for about ten seconds, right before I notice how dim or smudgy it actually looks. A big part of the problem is the role that electrodes play in the...

Jeff Bezos says his new AI startup, Prometheus, is working toward an "artificial general engineer" capable of helping design complex physical products such as robots, drugs, manufacturing systems, and rocket engines. The Verge reports: The NYT first...

Yen-Ling Kuo always wanted to understand how things worked. When she was growing up in Taiwan, reading the story of Michael Faraday in elementary school piqued her curiosity about the natural world. During that time, she was introduced to...

In winter 1997, at age 60, when many researchers might be looking forward to retirement, Harriet Latham...

We’ve all heard the advice “If you want a breakthrough, you need to think outside the box.”  It has become a corporate cliché. But this phrase does more than just grate on our nerves; it can harm real innovation....

A quantum computer is successfully mining cryptocurrency in the first experiment of its kind, while also using a lot...

Influencers covering the 2026 World Cup in the United States will not be able to create content for monetization on social media without a work visa, according to a joint statement issued by Customs and Border Protection and the...

Engineers at the University of Texas at Austin have built a jacket that pulls drinkable water directly from the air, offering a potential solution for hikers, soldiers, agricultural workers, and emergency responders who operate far from reliable water sources.How...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: While traditional hotspots in the region such as Thailand, South Korea and Malaysia focus on services such as cosmetic surgery, IVF or physicals, China is trying to differentiate itself by...

Jinhua Zhao MCP ’04, SM ’04, PhD ’09 has been appointed head of the Department of Urban...