Innovation & Future

At 2:18 PM Eastern Time on Wednesday, every cell phone in America will buzz, beep, or maybe play a jaunty tune. Everyone will receive a special, handy-dandy…

It was Tuesday, Oct. 2. A representative from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences was on the line from Stockholm calling to inform Strickland, an associate…

Amazon’s new Echo Plus has on-device AI built-in. Credit: Amazon Alexa is dumb. You probably saw Amazon’s recent device refresh, which includes a new Echo Dot…

DOGHOUSE Look, we get it. Puppies are adorable. All you want to do is let them lick your face. But the next time you’re tempted to buy a cute canine from a…

XXL LANDER The Apollo Lunar Module weighed less than 11,000 pounds and was just 22 feet tall, even with its legs extended. And that’s after years of space-…

Safety First Construction is dangerous work. Between the powerful equipment, hazardous materials, and often-precarious environments, it’s not all that…

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

Pod People We’ve seen more sketches and animated demo videos of hyperloops than we can count. But now, one of leaders of the industry has finally shown us…

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 Wednesday.…