Technology

Long-lost works of ancient philosophy have been recovered from papyrus scrolls that were scorched by the AD 79 eruption...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has found complex carbon compounds in a Martian crater that had previously shown tantalising possible signs...

In a few cases, the extinction of a species would be a good thing. That’s a controversial opinion, but...

When considering the 1960s sitcoms Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie, both of which featured women with supernatural powers navigating life with mortals, most people wouldn’t connect them with pursuing an engineering career. But Karen Panetta did. The sitcoms’...

Our brains love shortcuts. Decisions are often made via a subconscious muddling through, due to the brain’s desire to...

Microsoft's claims it has made major breakthroughs in quantum computing have been questioned by a UK-based physicist, in a paper published by the science journal Nature.Dr Henry Legg, a long-term critic of Microsoft's quantum work, argued a software tool...

What could you do if you could make a circuit trace by just bending a piece of paper? How about bridging modern technologies and traditional handicrafts while providing opportunities for learning skills in both.As part of our interdisciplinary research...

SummaryRFIC design is a complex “dark art” that limits progress in wireless technologies like 5G, autonomous vehicles, and satellite communications.Princeton researchers use reinforcement learning and inverse design to rapidly create RFICs from scratch.Diffusion models rapidly generate novel or human-interpretable...

5G telecommunications, according to industry hype when 5G first launched in 2019, was going to be all about buzzy applications like mobile augmented reality and autonomous vehicles. But the surprise plot twist came when replacing home cable internet turned...

Google's YouTube has settled a social media addiction case brought by a 15-year-old in Florida, in a fresh legal blow for online platforms accused of fuelling a mental health crisis among children.The teenager, who used the initials R.K.C. in...