Fraunhofer ILT in Aachen has developed a highly complex laser-optical system for a quantum computer currently under construction at the 5th Institute of Physics at the University of Stuttgart. This ...

A new laser-optical system uses 2,000 controllable beams to precisely position atoms, enabling key logic processes in a ...

Researchers have developed pixels that can not only create images, but also analyse them. In the future, this could lead to ...

Every morning, millions of Americans engage in a quiet, collective ritual. We wake up, often pull a smartphone from our ...

The “Father of the Internet,” Vinton Cerf, has retired after shaping the digital world and warns that AI must rely on precise ...

Explore the history of modern home essentials, from ovens and microwaves to TVs and air conditioning, and see how they changed daily life.

Many "modern" inventions actually have precedents dating back more than 1000 years, to ancient Greek and Roman times.

As the country celebrates its 250th birthday, here are five tools invented within its borders that completely transformed how ...

Thousands of giant rocks scattered across Switzerland have puzzled people for centuries. Many of these huge boulders are ...

Mathematician and Michigander Claude Shannon revolutionized how the digital world communicates in the late 1940s. He is now ...

From the lightbulb to the airplane, to medical breakthroughs and the internet age, the past 250 years have been defined by ...

As part of our July Fourth special broadcast, we continue our extended interview with Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI. The book documents the rise of ...