The annual clock of the seasons—winter, spring, summer, autumn—is often taken as a given. But our new study in Nature, using a new approach for observing seasonal growth cycles from satellites, shows ...

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With their bright blue bases, yellow gears, and exposed circuit tops, the 3D-printed robots look like a child’s toys. Yet as a roughly two-dozen-member collective, they can flow around obstacles ...

Future A New Device Pulls Water From Thin Air—Even in Death Valley Portable, reusable, and affordable, the device is the latest in technologies aiming to expand access to drinking water.

Casey Harrell lost his voice to ALS. With the new system, he can emphasize words and intonations in real time—and sing tunes.

Scientists just unveiled the world’s tiniest pacemaker. Smaller than a grain of rice and controlled by light shone through the skin, the pacemaker generates power and squeezes the heart’s muscles ...

Artificial Intelligence Meta’s New AI Translates Speech in Real Time Across More Than 100 Languages It's accurate and nearly as fast as expert human interpreters.

Tech Scientists Just Made ‘Biological Qubits’ That Act as Quantum Sensors Inside Cells Such sensors could one day carry out MRI at the scale of individual cells or aid researchers in drug development.

The chip was nearly 92 percent accurate at image recognition, matching current chip performance, but cut energy consumption over a thousand-fold.

Viewing consciousness through the lens of a memory system could provide new clues to brain disorders like epilepsy and dementia.

A paralyzed woman can again communicate with the outside world thanks to a wafer-thin disk capturing speech signals in her brain. An AI translates these electrical buzzes into text and, using ...

Robotics These Tiny Liquid Robots Merge and Split Like ‘Terminator’ Made of teflon and water, the robots could one day shuttle drugs around the body.