Innovation

Each year The Global Energy Prize honours outstanding achievement in research and technology designed to address some of the world’s most pressing…

That sounds like a question you might hear at a midnight screening of “The Matrix,” but lately it’s become the subject of serious academic debate.…

A European-made lander tasked with extracting samples from an asteroid orbiting the Sun some 300 million km away is expected to make landfall on…

Frances Arnold of the California Institute of Technology was awarded half of the 9-million-kronor ($1.01 million) prize, while the other half will be…

For more than half a century, rockets have been the only way to go to space. But in the not-too-distant future, we may have another option for…

The 2018 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Frances H. Arnold of the United States, and jointly to George P. Smith of the US and British…

The message is scheduled to be the first trial of the “Presidential Alert” system, a new way to notify Americans across the country of national…

Made of a tiny magnetic head and squiggly elastic tail, the flea-size drones look and swim much like their spermy counterparts, with a few big…

A squishy robotic jellyfish that can ride ocean currents and squeeze harmlessly into tight spaces could soon give scientists a better tool for…

The proposed change in standards, rolled out in August, would also cost Americans nearly 17,000 days of work a year, due to increased illnesses, the…