From the wheel 5,500 years ago to the birth control pill, these 20 inventions had huge ramifications and have helped humans shape the world around us.

Encora Therapeutics, which developed a wrist-based device that reduces essential tremor, started as a project in MIT’s famous product-design class, 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes).

MIT researchers developed a handheld device that can gently collect living cells from specific locations to test for ovarian and other cancers. The technique could be used to catch cancers earlier and...

AI predictions could help with pandemic preparedness, but they will need experimental confirmation.

Learn why every business should be built to sell—even if you never plan to sell. A sellable business is more profitable, resilient, and valuable.

Explore top health tech trends today, from hospital cybersecurity and medical robotics to remote smart virtual wards and AI-assisted clinical diagnosis.

For anyone with disabilities or mobility challenges, smart devices can be profoundly empowering and can enable more independent living.

Is fabric just for covering furniture and beds, or can it do more? For centuries, cotton, silk, and wool were seen as static materials. Now, a quiet revolution is underway. Smart fabrics, or e-textile...

A hidden power in Kimchi could help remove toxic nanoplastics.

Scientists around the world are working on ways to hide us from sight. But how close are we to developing tech that could make us invisible?

SpudCell can grow, replicate and divide, opening the door to a new era of biological engineering

MIT researchers created a computing platform that leverages the unique properties of squishy materials at the nanoscale to develop tiny devices that can process information, inspired by how the brain ...

Why do food cravings become so strong during pregnancy? Researchers at LSU's Pennington Biomedical Research Center, in collaboration with colleagues, have identified a brain mechanism that may help ex...

Although invaluable to modern society, refrigeration faces challenges from traditional vapor-compression systems, which are energy-intensive and use refrigerants that exacerbate the greenhouse effect ...

We can’t help but wonder what ideas we’ll be talking about in the decades to come… presumably while sitting in a bar on the Moon, sipping anti-ageing, dark matter martinis.

By Futurist Thomas Frey Every few years, a cluster of technologies arrives that makes you stop and ask whether the people building them are solving real problems or simply demonstrating that the probl...

Adversarial attire can’t stop AI cameras, but can disrupt them

LED sensor band could end sweat-triggered prosthetic shutdowns

How many cells in the human body? Explore the science and surprising facts about blood cells, neurons, and the human microbiome.

The vast amount of power locked within water must never be underestimated and must be harnessed with care. Will a Canadian man's approach become the new norm?

Naoki Egami is an MIT political scientist specializing in the methodology of research, including the question of “external validity” — whether the results of particular studies apply more generally.

Sandia National Laboratory researchers have developed a quantum sensor that uses just 5 milliwatts of power and 420-nanometer-thick optical fibers.

Even without subsidies, renewable energy is staying competitive with power from gas and coal

Homes in the 1970s stayed warm with simpler heating. Families used smart design and passive solar techniques. They also adjusted their habits, keeping rooms cooler. This approach reduced energy use si...

Depending on AI can also potentially decrease the ability to discern misinformation, research says

During sleep, exposure to short bursts of a staticky sound called “pink noise” can strengthen waves of cerebrospinal fluid, which clear debris from the brain, according to new research.

Scientists found that the fish were gradually domesticated like dog breeds into the beautiful shapes and colors that turn up today in pet stores.

Cause is usually followed by effect, but in the quantum world, time's sequencing is not so straightforward.

An overview of the Bauhaus school, including a discussion of the Bauhaus-influenced chair designed by Marcel Breuer.

Studies cap 20-year project to map an insect’s entire nervous system—and understand how it works

Scientists have discovered that tiny, sharply curved wrinkles in graphene can dramatically alter its electrical behavior, creating surprisingly strong charge separation. The finding suggests future el...

Scientists have developed a solar desalination system that turns seawater into drinking water without creating environmentally damaging brine. Special laser-textured metal panels use sunlight to evapo...

the custom-fit mouthpiece turns tongue, head and breath gestures into bluetooth controls for digital devices.

Researchers have created a 3D-printed electrode that could help make it easier and safer to store large amounts of renewable energy generated by wind and solar farms.

Loughborough University physicists and an international team have demonstrated that a grain-of-rice-sized microchip can be used to produce a spectrum of precisely spaced frequencies of light, which is...

Discover the story of the 2012 collaboration between Louis Vuitton and Yayoi Kusama: iconic polka dots, monogram, and contemporary art that transformed luxury accessories and fashion.

MIT researchers engineered bacteria that can function as transistors, enabling the creation of living “circuit boards.” These bacteria could someday coat plant leaves or roots, computing to respond to...

Injection of a person’s own mitochondria into the retina was safe but had only a temporary effect on restoring vision.

EELS is NASA's 14-foot-long serpentine autonomous robot that could someday be used to search for life on icy moons in our solar system.

A decade after scientists in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT began testing whether sensory stimulation of the brain’s 40Hz “gamma” frequency rhythms could treat Alzheimer’s diseas...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have discovered lymph node-like structures in the skull bone marrow of mice for the first time and demonstrated that they act as ra...