Microcontrollers (MCUs) have widely been considered the workhorses of embedded design – responsible for reading inputs, controlling outputs ...

A researcher, professor and federal policy adviser, he guided students who went on to do groundbreaking work in connecting the world online.

New plankton arrived just a few millennia — maybe even decades — after the Chicxulub asteroid, forcing a rethink of evolution ...

AI’s rise feels faster and deeper than past tech shifts—reshaping not just what we build, but how we build, learn, and evolve in an accelerating feedback loop.

The U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command’s Tobyhanna Army Depot opened a new microelectronics manufacturing facility in June 2025 to develop ...

Intel released the 80286 processor on February 1, 1982, making the CPU 44 years old. According to the company, the 16-bit chip represented a significant evolution ...

Environmental change doesn’t affect evolution in a single, predictable way. In large-scale computer simulations, scientists discovered that some fluctuating conditions help populations evolve higher ...

The trade-off between quality and quantity is a fundamental economic dilemma. Now, a team of British, American, and Japanese researchers describes how it applies to biology, as well. They have ...

One of the most important steps in the evolution of modern mammals was the development of highly sensitive hearing. The middle ear of mammals, with an eardrum and several small bones, allows us to ...

Jacob S. Suissa receives funding from The National Science Foundation. He is affiliated with Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, and Let's Botanize Inc. There are few forms of the botanical world ...