technology

Researchers succeed in an 80-year-old quest to find the elusive “angel particle”.

Superfast hyperloop travel gets closer to reality as Elon Musk receives “verbal” government approval for a route linking NYC and Washington.

Reality is whatever your body believes. Virtual reality knows how to hack that.

Chinese scientists accomplish the feat of teleporting a photon to a satellite hundreds of miles above Earth.

Scientists solve the mystery of why 2000-year-old Roman concrete still stands strong.

Google is closing in on achieving a major quantum computing milestone.

Scientists film a closeup of DNA replication for the first time, leading to unexpected observations.

Elon Musk publishes a visionary paper on his company’s plans to colonize space.

Giant fans start capturing CO2 from the air as the world’s first commercial carbon capture plant goes live.

NASA space probes discovered a protective barrier created by human communication technology.

Studying philosophy has had a major impact on the power players of Silicon Valley.

A company plans to transform the world’s most arid region by bringing icebergs from Antarctica.

Job automation will need to strike a delicate balance — we want enough to make our lives more comfortable, but no more than that.rn

Elon Musk’s new company will use “neural lace” technology to link human brains with machines.

What if we build from the sky down? NYC architects release designs for a skyscraper that would hang from an asteroid and travel between hemispheres.

America’s most popular conspiracy theories and the science behind them.

1.5 million children die each year from preventable diseases arising from poor sanitation systems. That’s why some of the world’s top scientists are working to make a 21st-century toilet without links to water, energy, or sewer lines, and which costs users under $0.05 a day.

85% of the electricity used in the world is generated by expensive, large, and inefficient steam turbines. Modern Electron plans to change that, producing efficient, cheap energy for all—using fossil fuels.

Elon Musk announces that SpaceX will fly two private citizens on a mission around the moon in 2018.

There’s a new verb in town: cognify. We have far too much baggage with the word ‘intelligence’ so to fully embrace the second industrial revolution we need to start talking about artificial cognification.

What if the vision wasn’t just to have politicians who are science literate, but actual scientists running the joint – would it be any better than it is now?

Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence learns what it takes to win, making human-like choices in competitive situations.

While often compared to the Roman Empire, the United States is not likely to collapse in the same way.

Here’s one use for all that harvested personal data that you might not object to. Algorithms and big data are no longer just for profit; they can bring us self-awareness and growth.

If we could jump 50 years into the future, what will our world look like? Flying cars? Hologram phones? Bill Nye sees two technological paths ahead – and we’re in the fork between them at this very moment.

Elon Musk’s cryptic messages about a mysterious tunneling project in California are getting more substantive.

A patent filed for Amazon’s “airborne fulfillment centers” reveals the e-commerce giant’s plans for the future of delivery.

Is the technology of the future more radical than the technology of the past? Alison Gopnik provides some historical perspective.

Author and robot expert Dr. David Levy explains how marriage with robots will come in the next several decades as technological and societal transformations take place.

Scientists create a portable device that can detect 17 diseases, including 8 different cancers, straight from a person’s breath.