Differentials are what allow the wheels on a vehicle to actually move around effectively. Open differentials are common, but ...

Shreyas Sen is the Founder and CTO of Quasistatics, Inc. (dba Ixana), which develops Wi-R, a wireless body-area communication technology. He owns shares in the company. How do headphones, toys, ...

Fleeting electron-hole pairs are giving scientists a new window into optimizing light-emitting devices (LEDs). Using quantum ...

It’s cold outside. You’re tired, way less motivated than usual, and the only emotion you can muster is...meh. Winter is here, and so are the blues that often come with it. For some people, it isn’t ...

Rendering a drug effective or ineffective in a flash at the appropriate location—this is the focus of research in photopharmacology. The goal is to develop drugs that can be switched on and off with ...

Physicists have recreated the Nobel Prize–winning quantum Hall effect using light, revealing that photons can follow the same strange quantum rules once thought exclusive to electrons.

Scientists have built the first quantum battery that can charge, store energy, and release electricity in one device.

People know Alexander Graham Bell as the man who invented the phone. But he also thought a lot about what work and success mean. Bell was born in Scotland in 1847. He spent most of his life working on ...