Nuclear engineer Ethan Klein has been confirmed by the Senate as the United States’ chief technology officer, becoming the first person to formally hold the role since 2021.

An innovative anamorphic illusion has taken the top prize in the annual Best Illusion of the Year contest. Twisting minds for 17 years the contest highlights the ways our brain can be tricked using ...

Remembering E.O. Wilson, Richard C. Lewontin, Myriam Sarachik, Isamu Akasaki, Chuck Geschke, Thomas Lovejoy, Rosalind Cartwright and many others who died in 2021. Thomas Lovejoy, 80 Amazon rescuer and ...

A volcano revealed, a lung x-rayed, a rocket launched: National Geographic editors selected these 23 fascinating images of science and technology in action. Pitchfork in hand, Armando Salazar clambers ...

GOVERNMENTS and companies around the world are racing to build a useful quantum computer, and the stakes are as high as the R&D budgets. Such a machine could crack encryption wide open, boost the ...

“SORRY FOR the early call”, the transmission from ground control to the International Space Station (ISS) in the morning of November 15th began, “but we were recently informed of a satellite break-up ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) methods have had significant impacts in science and technology in recent years. These methods for generating models from datasets or logic-based algorithms that emulate ...