Technology

Like many engineers, Sarah Downs says she knew she wanted to pursue a STEM career from a young age. As a teenager, she discovered robotics through her Tulsa, Okla., middle school’s First Lego League team, and she fell in...

Ever since she was a child playing on her family’s farmland in Wisconsin, Bailey Flanigan was guided by her own selective, yet wide-ranging, curiosity. Describing her young self as spirited and a bit unruly, she directed her energies to...

President Donald Trump’s much-hyped speech promising huge revelations about interference in the 2020 election failed to deliver. On Thursday night, the president made sweeping claims about interference by China and cover-ups by the “deep state,” and repeated debunked claims...

For decades, engineers have chased the dream of an invisible drone. The usual approaches have involved transparent materials, camouflage coatings, or complex optical systems that bend light around an object. Researchers at Northwestern University decided to take a completely...

Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns Truth Social, is launching a paid service to give Wall Street firms high-speed access to its most influential posts.Launching on 1 August, instant updates will be delivered from key accounts, it said....

It was 4 a.m. on a Sunday and 46-year-old Jason Haley was once again wide awake. The suburban silence that Haley had grown used to in his two decades as a resident of Southaven, Mississippi, had,...

For most of us, knitting brings to mind sweaters, scarves, and perhaps an ambitious grandmother determined to make winter more fashionable. Researchers at Harvard University, however, have a far more futuristic vision. They’ve transformed ordinary knitted fabric into a...

In the eastern Indian Ocean, south of Java in the vast sea stretching toward Australia, a fishing vessel slightly alters its course while operating near the boundary of its authorized fishing ground. Nothing appears unusual on deck. Nets remain...

Update July 16, 2026 (3:00 am PT): OnePlus said that the company won’t launch new products in Europe and North America.“After careful assessment, OnePlus will no longer launch new products in Europe and North America. All users’ rights and...

Smoke from devastating wildfires in Canada is blanketing a large swath of the Midwest and Northeast this week, causing cities across the region to issue air quality warnings.The extreme levels of smoke mean that even able-bodied adults would be...