Tech

  1. Tech

    Squirty gels bring food-like flavors to virtual reality

    A new device recreates complex flavors including lemonade, coffee and fish soup by delivering a mix of chemicals.

    By Simon Makin
  2. Microbes

    Living lenses? Glass-coated microbes might take better photos

    Bacteria with a gene from sea sponges can coat themselves in glass. Working as tiny, bendable lenses, they could lead to thinner cameras or sensors.

    By Katie Cottingham
  3. Tech

    Scientists Say: Agrivoltaics

    This win-win technology means future farmers may produce both food and electricity.

    By Katie Grace Carpenter
  4. Tech

    Experiment: Make the fastest rubber band paddleboat

    With a rubber band and some cardboard, you can build your own paddleboat to speed across the surface of a pool.

    By Science Buddies
  5. Earth

    Analyze This: Smartphone data may help improve GPS

    Data from millions of phones helped fill in maps of the ionosphere, an atmospheric layer that can muddle radio signals key for navigation systems.

    By Carolyn Wilke
  6. Artificial Intelligence

    AI-designed proteins target toxins in deadly snake venom

    The current way to produce antivenoms is outdated. In lab tests, AI-designed proteins could save mice from a lethal dose of snake toxin.

    By Meghan Rosen
  7. Artificial Intelligence

    DeepSeek pioneers a new way for AI to ‘reason’

    Chatbots answer one question at a time. Reasoning agents work through a problem step by step. DeepSeek makes this new type of AI far less costly.

    By Kathryn Hulick
  8. Tech

    A robotic hand helps piano players’ fingers move faster

    Robotic devices like this might someday help musicians, gamers, athletes or even surgeons improve their dexterity.

    By Kathryn Hulick
  9. Math

    His love of math led to a career in quantum computing

    James Whitfield began his career when quantum computing was still in its infancy. Today, he’s helping to make it more accessible to educators, researchers and others.

    By Aaron Tremper
  10. Tech

    Meet 5 types of robots with living body parts

    Creature-machine mash-ups seem weird or even creepy. But biohybrids that make use of living tissue could be the future of robotics.

    By Kathryn Hulick
  11. Tech

    High-speed lasers write data — to last millennia — inside glass

    Project Silica is advancing a new way to store data — potentially forever. Some students plan to use this new media to send a message into space.

    By Kathryn Hulick
  12. Artificial Intelligence

    Scientists Say: Large language model

    Large language models, or LLMs, are language-processing systems that underpin advanced AI technologies such as ChatGPT.

    By Katie Grace Carpenter