Technological innovations can seem relentless. In computing, some have proclaimed that "a year in machine learning is a century in any other field." But how do you know whether those advancements are hype or reality?

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Picture an electric car that could go 600, 700 or even 1,000 miles on a single charge. That's much farther than the longest-range electric vehicles on the U.S. market, according to Car and Driver magazine—and twice as far the...

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A University of Portsmouth-led study could help to inform the development of policy and interventions to reduce the risk of people falling prey to online and telephone scams.

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In an MIT classroom, a professor lectures while students diligently write down notes they will reread later to study and internalize key information ahead of an exam.

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We've heard a lot of talk about critical minerals recently. These are the metals and elements crucially important to the advanced technologies we have all become accustomed to: our mobile phones, electric vehicles (EVs), our digital infrastructure.

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Electronic signs are all around us, giving directions or advertising the latest gadget. In ACS Energy Letters, researchers report that they've developed a dynamic display technology that dissipates heat instead of generating it when the color changes, cooling the...

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Weather forecasting is notoriously wonky—climate modeling even more so. But their slowly increasing ability to predict what the natural world will throw at us humans is largely thanks to two things—better models and increased computing power.

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Every day, millions of people talk to chatbots and AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Replika and Gemini, but what kind of "relationships" are we really forming with them?

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Five minutes of training can significantly improve people's ability to identify fake faces created by artificial intelligence, new research shows.

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Hypersonic planes could fly from Sydney to Los Angeles in just an hour. What's standing in the way of such ultra-fast planes becoming reality is our understanding of how the turbulence they generate as they fly at such high...

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Global demand for air conditioning could more than triple by 2050, the United Nations warned on Tuesday, calling for more sustainable cooling solutions.

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It has become nearly impossible for people to tell the difference between music generated by artificial intelligence and that created by humans, according to a survey released Wednesday.

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From translating thoughts into words to allowing paralyzed people to walk, the field of neurotechnology has been quietly surging ahead, raising hopes of medical breakthroughs—and profound ethical concerns.

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Renewable energy is still expanding faster than fossil fuels around the world despite policy changes in the United States, with oil demand possibly peaking "around 2030," the International Energy Agency said Wednesday.

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In the future, flexibly operated heat pumps and electric cars could reduce both electricity imports and electricity prices. That is according to a new study by a Swiss research consortium led by ETH Zurich.

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A research team has developed an extrapolation-based Doppler resolution enhancement algorithm for frequency modulated continuous wave radars. The algorithm improves system performance, offering an advancement that is superior to existing ultra-high-resolution technologies.

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Concrete 3D printing reduces both time and cost by eliminating traditional formwork, the temporary mold for casting. Yet most of today's systems rely on extrusion-based methods, which deposit material very close to a nozzle layer by layer. This makes...

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A team led by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) has made a breakthrough in semiconductor development that could reshape the way we produce computer chips, optoelectronics and quantum computing devices.

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