Technology

LoCHAid can be assembled in 30 minutes with cheap parts

In spite of the hype, even inventors of the basic idea say it will never help defeat stealth technology

Company presents timeline for its next step on the road to practical quantum computing

Broad Institute appears to gain an advantage over the University of California and its partners who have claimed to have invented the genome editor first

Plans call for spending $1 billion over 5 years

Thousands of new orbiters threaten astronomical observations and image processing alone won’t save them

Beetle-size machine can climb, crawl, and carry heavy objects—all without batteries

Design approval nears for NuScale Power’s small modular reactors, but deployment plans slip 3 years

Discovery could bolster global supplies of drugs

System relies on artificial intelligence to turn noise in to a signal

New technology could threaten tropical animals

Artificial intelligence can distinguish individual birds for the first time, including in the wild

Steerable arm helps save energy while capturing panoramic views

Shining 100 times brighter than its predecessor, the new European Synchrotron Radiation Facility is the first of more than a dozen of its kind in the works

Approach could help researchers—and Hollywood

New technique uses electrodes to extract lithium from seawater