Curiosity-driven research has long sparked technological transformations. A century ago, curiosity about atoms led to quantum mechanics, and eventually the transistor at the heart of modern computing.

Election results in Texas and North Carolina have Democrats dreaming big about “turning” red states blue.

Curiosity-driven research has long sparked technological transformations. A century ago, curiosity about atoms led to quantum mechanics, and ...

Leah Pruett returns to NHRA Top Fuel racing after maternity leave, now competing against her husband, Tony Stewart.

A new class of photonic devices enables the precise broadcasting of light from the chip into free space in a scalable way, which could lead to advanced displays, high-speed optical communications, and ...

Startup Hyperscale Power is developing technology that promises to shrink power transformers, freeing up precious space within data centers.

When the densest objects in the universe collide and merge, the violence sets off ripples, in the form of gravitational waves ...

MIT researchers have unveiled a cutting-edge method to detect and track smaller asteroids that could potentially disrupt ...

Many engineering challenges come down to the same headache—too many knobs to turn and too few chances to test them. Whether tuning a power grid or designing a safer vehicle, each evaluation can be ...

Louisiana Tech University senior Jesse Webb will represent the United States this April at the NYU Abu Dhabi International Hackathon for Social Good, one of the world’s premier student quantum ...

Life on Earth may have learned to breathe oxygen long before oxygen filled the skies. MIT researchers traced a key oxygen-processing enzyme back hundreds of millions of years before the Great ...