Technology

Whether space, health, technology or environment, here are the issues in science that the editors of Scientific American are focusing on for 2026

A new generation of household robots could change the way you live

Robots are poised to play a much bigger role in daily life at home, at work and in the world

General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition humans learn through experience

An oil tanker seized by the U.S. this week reportedly used a technique that scrambled its location, but new advanced visual tracking can help expose such ships’ true coordinates

A new survey offers the clearest national snapshot yet of how U.S. teens are using artificial intelligence

Billionaire-headed machines lampoon tech power and the way our images quietly become fuel for AI

On our 2025 Best Nonfiction of the Year list, Karen Hao’s investigation of artificial intelligence reveals how the AI future is still in our hands

Space-based computing offers easy access to solar power but presents its own environmental challenges

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

The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives

A new sound-based system could squelch small fires before they grow into home-destroying blazes