Innovation & Future

Earlier this year, scientists published a paper describing how they pieced together segments of DNA in order to bring back a previously eradicated virus called…

A new robot with caterpillar-like legs could one day be used to deliver drugs around the human body, say scientists. The tiny device can carry weights much…

Have you ever looked down at your smartphone and thought “You know what? What would really improve this experience, is a dismembered robotic finger stroking my…

Gone MASCOT’s lifespan was shorter than the average mayfly’s, but we’d like to see an insect accomplish half of what this robot did during the 17 hours it…

In a society that sometimes seems to promote noise, are we taking silence for granted? We are exposed to ever-more stimuli to keep ourselves entertained…

This year’s winners of the Global Energy Prize are Sergey Alekseenko from Russia and Martin Green from Australia. We found out more about them. Martin Green…

Amazon is the second largest employer in the United States. Its CEO just overtook Bill Gates as the richest man on the planet. It’s hard to square that reality…

The world of finance and the technology that supports it is constantly evolving. As early as 1866, the first transatlantic cable was laid, providing an…

Many Moons Moons are everywhere in our solar system — we have one, Mars has two, Jupiter and Saturn have dozens each — but we’ve never known whether moons…