Verily’s Bold New Project Aims to Predict Depression Using Your Phone . Depression is a shifting, amorphous beast that silently haunts millions. It’s also difficult to pinpoint. Psychiatry has formulated well-tested questionnaires to diagnose depression

Could Photonic Chips Outpace the Fastest Supercomputers? . There’s been a lot of talk about quantum computers being able to solve far more complex problems than conventional supercomputers. The authors of a new paper say they’re on the path to showing an

Engineering Bugs, Resurrecting Species: The Wild World of Synthetic Biology for Conservation . Imagine a world where a mosquito bite is just an itchy annoyance. No malaria. No dengue fever. Last month, scientists announced they had taken one more step t

7 Business Models Reshaping How We Work, Live, and Create Value . Some of the most potent innovation taking place today does not involve breakthrough technologies, but rather the creation of fundamentally new business models. For most of history, these mo

How Smart Roads Will Make Driving Easier, Safer, and Greener . Roads criss-cross the landscape, but while they provide vital transport links, in many ways they represent a huge amount of wasted space. Advances in “smart road” technology could change that,

Decoding the Brain Goes Global With the International Brain Initiative . Few times in history has mankind ever united to solve a single goal. Even the ultimate moonshot in history—putting a man on the moon—was driven by international competition rather th

World’s Biggest 3D Printed Building Opens in Dubai . Just a few years ago, the idea of a house being spit out by a 3D printer would’ve sounded absurd to most of us. But not only have houses been 3D printed in multiple countries, entire communities of pri.

This Marvelous Machine Splits Moon Dust Into Oxygen and Metal . Like the settlers of old, space explorers will live off the land. But if self-sufficiency on Earth is difficult, it’s orders of magnitude more challenging in space, where there are no trees t

This Marvelous Machine Splits Moon Dust Into Oxygen and Metal . Like the settlers of old, space explorers will live off the land. But if self-sufficiency on Earth is difficult, it’s orders of magnitude more challenging in space, where there are no trees t

This Marvelous Machine Splits Moon Dust Into Oxygen and Metal . Like the settlers of old, space explorers will live off the land. But if self-sufficiency on Earth is difficult, it’s orders of magnitude more challenging in space, where there are no trees t