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At the U.K.’s ORE Catapult testing facility, engineers are pushing offshore wind turbines to new scales, transforming ...

The connection between a crumpled sheet of paper and quantum technology: A research team at the EPFL in Lausanne (Switzerland) and the University of Konstanz (Germany) uses topology in microwave ...

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Ever notice how rose petals curl at the edges with those elegant pointed tips? For centuries, artists have celebrated these ...

In "More Everything Forever," Adam Becker unpacks the flaws in the dreams of tech pioneers to reshape the world to come.

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Daniela Rus, the director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, is developing robots that take more cues ...

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One of the most surprising findings was the discovery of Calabi-Yau three-fold periods—geometric structures traditionally ...

Since the launch of the first commercially available multicopter, sometime in the early 2010’s, we have been living in a ...

The company sees golden dollar signs, while the community fears their water sources will become ‘territories of death’ ...