How Scientists Squeezed a Particle Accelerator Onto a Tiny Silicon Chip . Particle accelerators have helped us unravel some of the universe’s biggest mysteries, but they’re huge, expensive, and inaccessible to most researchers. A new particle accelerator

These Breakthroughs Made the 2010s the Decade of the Brain . I rarely use the words transformative or breakthrough for neuroscience findings. The brain is complex, noisy, chaotic, and often unpredictable. One intriguing result under one condition may soon

Tech's Biggest Leaps From the Last 10 Years, and Why They Matter . As we enter our third decade in the 21st century, it seems appropriate to reflect on the ways technology developed and note the breakthroughs that were achieved in the last 10 years. The

50+ Reasons Our Favorite Emerging Technologies Had an Amazing 2019 . For most of history, technology was about atoms, the manipulation of physical stuff to extend humankind’s reach. But in the last five or six decades, atoms have partnered with bits, the

Could Having Too Much Become a Bigger Problem Than Having Too Little? . Years ago I traveled to Juarez, Mexico for work, staying across the border in El Paso, Texas and driving back and forth each day. On the Texas side, American life bustled on as usual:

How a Machine That Can Make Anything Would Change Everything . “Something is going to happen in the next forty years that will change things, probably more than anything else since we left the caves.” –James Burke James Burke has a vision for the future

3D Printing Is Going to Reshape Retail in These 4 Ways . Forget costly prototypes, traditional textile manufacturing, product recalls, and the like. 3D printing is about to turn the entire retail industry on its head. A precise form of additive manufact

The Future of Aviation Will Be Greener and Faster Than Ever Before . While flying cars may someday deliver on the Jetsons-like promise of buzzing around cities in robotic air taxis, the future of commercial aviation is no less tantalizing. Companies large

All the Stars the Voyager and Pioneer Spacecraft Will Visit in the Next Million Years . Humans are nowhere near an interstellar species. No Zefram Cochrane has emerged to make warp drive practical. No alien protomolecule has erected a gate to other solar

Here Are the Stars the Voyager and Pioneer Spacecraft Will Visit in the Next Million Years . Humans are nowhere near an interstellar species. No Zefram Cochrane has emerged to make warp drive practical. No alien protomolecule has erected a gate to other s