Engineering

Urban areas can improve the planet as well as people’s lives if we design them to be much more resourceful with energy, water, food and minerals

Quantum bits, aka qubits, can simultaneously encode 0 and 1. But multicolored photons could enable even more states to exist at the same time, ramping up computing power. Christopher Intagliata reports.

When the Oroville Dam spillway cracked and failed after a wet California winter, a team of scientists created a one fiftieth–scale model of the damaged concrete and eroded hillside to help guide the reconstruction.

Science and technology innovation is an engine of our competitiveness, and small business is its driver

Technology far exceeded expectations in LISA Pathfinder test

Technology that mimics photosynthesis converts carbon dioxide to fuels in a sustainable way

AI now matches or exceeds the ability of experts in medicine and other fields to interpret what they see

Technologies that pull moisture from the air are now solar-powered

Reducing the platinum in fuel-cell catalysts could help bring hydrogen-powered vehicles to the mass market

Combining sensors and imaging of every plant with real-time data analytics improves farm outputs and reduces waste

Innovations that are on the verge of making a difference to society

Increased testing of quantum computing techniques will open the door to solving new kinds of problems