Vasily Belokurov is one of three winners of the 2026 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics. The award is for uncovering fossil evidence of past galactic mergers that prove how the Milky Way evolved. No matter ...

Switches drive nearly every machine. A new one, made of folded DNA, does the same work at the scale of molecules. Scientists have long dreamed of developing nanoscale machines, but building reliable ...

Online data is generally pretty secure. Assuming everyone is careful with passwords and other protections, you can think of it as being locked in a vault so strong that even all the world’s ...

In a step toward biological computing, brain organoids rewired their networks as they learned to balance a digital pole on a cart. Try balancing a ruler vertically on the palm of your hand while ...

It’s now possible to treat inherited blood diseases, such as sickle cell disease, with gene editing. Blood stem cells are extracted from the patient, modified, and infused back into their bone ...

Imagine if one company could become the railroad, electric utility, and cloud-computing provider of the emerging space economy. That potential fueled excitement around the long-anticipated initial ...

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Kai Riemer is professor of information technology and organization and director of Sydney Executive Plus at the University of Sydney Business School. He has extensive experience with industry-funded ...

The universe may not only be geometry and energy—but also memory. And in that memory, every moment of cosmic history may still be written. For more than a century, physics has been built on two great ...

AI long ago surpassed humans at games like chess and Go. Now it's powering robots that can challenge top athletes. Peter Dürr could barely follow the table-tennis ball as it zoomed across the net, ...

Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, popularly known as “Nadar,” took the first known aerial photographs using a camera attached to a hot-air balloon just outside Paris in 1858. Ever since, technologists have ...

The technology, still far from clinical use, could one day prevent devastating diseases. But critics warn that even these early results may also fuel interest in commercial embryo editing, despite ...