Groundbreaking new tests reveal patterns in our immune systems that can signal underlying disease and tell us how well we might recover from our next cold. I got my results in a text message.

The grants now in question were allocated under the DOE’s Regional Direct Air Capture Hubs program, which was funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The goal was to set up several major ...

And Cyclic Materials is trying to reclaim and recycle rare earth magnets, a crucial technology that underpins everything from speakers to EVs and wind turbines. Today, only about 0.2% of rare earths ...

A former OpenAI researcher who left to build an AI-for-science startup referred to Sora as an “infinite AI tiktok slop machine.”  That hasn’t stopped it from soaring to the top spot on Apple’s US App ...

But now their toys can talk back, thanks to a wave of companies that are fitting children’s playthings with chatbots and voice assistants. It’s a trend that has particularly taken off in China: A ...

For all the progress the world has made on renewable energy sources, electric vehicles, and electricity storage, we need a lot more innovation on every front—from discovery to deployment—before we can ...

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The company is gene editing crops to make our food supply more resilient to climate change.

And what distinguishes the firms that made the 2025 edition of our annual list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch.

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The Chinese startup has begun mass-producing two types of sodium-ion batteries and plans to launch a third this month.

People over Papers, a crowdsourcing project that maps sightings of US immigration agents, was taken offline yesterday by Padlet, the collaborative bulletin board platform on which it was built. It’s ...