Engineering

Scientists are exploring the use of fiber-optic cables—like the ones that form the backbone of the internet—to monitor earthquakes. Julia Rosen reports.

To fully utilize the long-awaited James Webb Space Telescope, researchers will have to squeeze a generation of scientific studies into the multibillion-dollar observatory’s short lifetime

Researchers trained machine-learning algorithms to pinpoint the location of a cargo ship simply by eavesdropping on the sound of its passing. Christopher Intagliata reports.

People have been dreaming about space travel for hundreds of years, long before the arrival of the spectacular technologies behind space exploration today

The protection of intellectual property is essential for economic advancement

In addition to addressing safety concerns, Silicon Valley firms have a strong incentive to create a new venue for increasing the use of their digital devices

Disruptive solutions that are poised to change the world

A new study charts potential courses for missions to ‘Oumuamua, an oddly-shaped space rock from another star

Even when autonomous vehicles are doing everything they’re supposed to, the drivers of nearby cars and trucks are still flawed, error-prone humans

An expert from a nuclear-test-monitoring system explains how his team is trying to help in the search for the ARA San Juan

Researchers attached cameras to humpback whales and found that they flap their flippers to help power forward swimming.