An Indian-origin Harvard professor, Aravinthan Samuel, is revolutionizing brain mapping with SmartEM, an AI-powered system. This innovation significantly speeds up and reduces the cost of creating ...

Early diagnosis and noninvasive monitoring of neurological disorders require sensitivity to elusive cellular-level alterations that emerge much earlier than volumetric changes observable with ...

A new light-based breakthrough could help quantum computers finally scale up. Stanford researchers created miniature optical cavities that efficiently collect light from individual atoms, allowing ...

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have used specialized tools to study materials at the atomic scale and analyze defects at the surface of ferroelectric materials. Results of their research ...

Why flu cases are spiking, how AI predicts disease from your sleep, and what surprising biomechanics lie behind woodpeckers’ powerful pecks. At CES 2026, Stevie Wonder offered a simple test for tech.

Transmission electron microscopes (TEMs) have been advancing our knowledge of the very small for nearly 100 years. Since their advent, they have helped scientists see structures as small as individual ...

Semiconductor detectors that directly measure the electrical signals produced by X-rays have hugely improved the resolution and contrast of computed tomography scanners. In the 1970s computed ...