Engineering

Engineering stories from materials science to quantum computing hardware. How scientists and engineers turn discoveries into technology.

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Depiction of imaginary electronic brain implants.
Health and life sciencesEngineeringScience Explorer

Injected Implants Could Swim to Your Brain

Wireless microchips travel bloodstreams, breach brain barriers, and park themselves at sites of injury.

Laser helps cars see better
EngineeringScience Explorer

Fast, cheap tunable laser could turn cars into better drivers

Scientists make tunable laser breakthrough that could transform self-driving tech, toxic gas detection, and even fiber-optic networks.

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Physics and mathematicsEngineeringScience Tracker

Light Fluid Mimics Black Hole's Event Horizon

Physicists create a quantum fluid of light that mimics black hole physics. The technique could finally test Hawking's 50-year-old radiation prediction.

Alien Dyson spheres might self-destruct before detection
Science TrackerEngineeringSpace and astronomy

Dyson Swarms May Destroy Themselves Before We Find Them

Breakthrough Listen physicist Brian Lacki calculated why Dyson sphere megastructures may collapse in cascading collisions long before any civilization can detect them.