Electronics

Modern luxury watches can be traced back to one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s younger sisters

Here’s how scientists drilled 8,000 feet through ice to place the world’s deepest seismometers

This familiar phenomenon has puzzled researchers for centuries, but experiments are finally making sense of its unruly behaviors

New CT scanners can build a 3D model of your carry-on, helping airport staff spot risks without making you unpack or decant liquids into tiny bottles

These miniature displays can be the size of your pupil, with as many pixels as you have photoreceptors—opening the way to improved virtual reality

Step into a room so quiet you can hear your own heartbeat—and your nervous system.

China is blocking exports of these vital minerals. What makes them so special?

A self-building sponge that efficiently collects gold could eliminate some harsh methods used to process e-waste

Autonomous and AI-enabled systems increasingly rely on optical and radio frequency sensors and significant computer power. They face growing vulnerabilities from directed-energy laser and microwave weapons

A new technique to make electronic fibers could help solve wearable technology’s flexibility problem

A new thermal transistor can control heat as precisely as an electrical transistor can control electricity

Technology is supposed to save us time, right? Turns out, it’s stealing some of our most precious time, but it’s not too late to get it back