A new article examines the history of computing to help outline the direction of quantum research. It reports that quantum technology is advancing quickly, and that the major obstacles now involve ...

Engineers at MIT have built a device that uses high frequency sound waves to shake drinkable water out of the air in minutes, ...

Previously, we watched Tim Berners-Lee knit the world together with the Web, giving us pages to browse and links to click. But a web of information is ...

Kip Thorne, theoretical astrophysicist and Nobel laureate, will deliver the keynote address at Caltech’s 132nd annual ...

Electrons can be elusive, but Cornell researchers using a new computational method can now account for where they go—or don't ...

Tyson’s ultimate goal was to image large swathes of the sky, measuring how galaxies’ shapes distorted as their light ...

For decades, nuclear physicists believed that "Islands of Inversion"—regions where the normal rules of nuclear structure ...

These four technologies won’t be on our 2026 list of breakthroughs, but all were closely considered, and we think they’re worth knowing about. Read the full story to learn what they are.  MIT ...

With contributions from Brown faculty and students, the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment analyzed the largest dataset ever collected by ...

Darius Bunandar, cofounder and chief scientist of Lightmatter, is #30 on The Boston Globe's 2024 Tech Power Players list.

A new nanofabrication approach could increase the range of quantum networks from a few kilometers to a potential 2,000 km, ...

Scientists hunted dark matter and solar neutrinos with one of the largest experiments yet. While the neutrinos likely ...