Technology

Covering waterways would, in a sense, make solar panels water-cooled, boosting their efficiency.

Humans dump an estimated 10 billion gallons of potential biofuel into landfills every year. Researchers found a way to capitalize...

The technologist and philanthropist goes beyond his recent book to talk about climate denial, vaccines, and David Foster Wallace.

Researchers used thermal radiation data to find patterns in recent eruptions—providing another metric to help get ahead of a potentially...

Clever experiments demonstrate how having your face in your phone disrupts the flow of pedestrian traffic and makes life difficult...

One year later, Covid-19 is still impacting incarcerated people at a disproportionate rate. But efforts are under way to prioritize...

The super cool, dense particle swarm gives physicists a way to study the insides of stars and gas giants—without ever leaving the...

The 2019–20 flu season basically didn’t happen. Same for a couple other respiratory viruses. But that could make future seasons worse.

Meet DyRET, a doglike machine that can lengthen its four legs on the fly. That’s not to creep out humans, but to help ramblin’ robots...

A new map of the chromosphere’s magnetic field could help us predict solar weather patterns—and anticipate flares that wreak havoc...