Technology & Innovation

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Necklace shaped like a golden phoenix with an exposed red and yellow core.
Outwitting, outplaying, and outlasting its competitors, the reality competition series Survivor turned 25 this year.
“Types of Invasion Air Operations” graphic shows flight from England into Frace with large arrows. Arrow patterns represent fighter, medium bomber, airborne, and strategic flight. For each, there are icons providing more detail of what they did. Airborne: paratroopers & gliders. Fighter: covering troops, escorting bombers, attacking resources. Medium bomber: communication systems, gun emplacements, marshalling yards. Strategic: factories & industries, marshalling yards, & costal installations.
D-Day was the largest single-day aerial operation in history. On June 6, 1944, the Allies invaded German-occupied France, landing on the beaches of Normandy, France.
Five adult white men stand at ease in front of a large airplane with a propeller in this fading black and white photograph. Three look at something out of frame to the left, two look at the camera. All are wearing light colored military casual apparel with at least the top button of their button up shirt open. You can sense heat and bright sun from the open buttons and the dark shadows on the picture.
Captain Joseph Foss shot down 26 Japanese aircraft defending Guadalcanal making him Amercia’s top ace. In the account that follows, learn about the Guadalcanal Campaign through his eyes.
A smiling woman in a sweatshirt stands in a portion of a field set up with electronic equipment for a science experiment.
FreViEW, a collaboration between the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) and Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, is a large-scale, long-term forest warming experiment taking place in Seoul, Korea.
a sign on the side of a building that says exit in french, english, and spanish.
Scientists have long wondered whether different neural mechanisms govern each language within a bilingual speaker’s brain. A recent study of people who speak both English and Spanish hints at a single “grammatical engine.”
Illustration of a robot working with a giant abacus.
A mathematician announced that he used one of Anthropic’s A.I. models to find a counterexample to a problem called the Jacobian conjecture. While experts consider it a milestone, the work raises questions about the future of mathematical research.
A winged robot on the surface of the water.
The bioinspired device, which weighs roughly half a pound and measures around three feet wide, was also modeled after aquatic birds like puffins, gulls and loons.
An illustration of proteins in the brain accumulating and forming tangles (seen in blue) in nerve cells.
Recently FDA-approved treatments work to clear clumps of the protein amyloid beta in the brain. A drug that instead goes after tangles of the protein tau can yield similar cognitive outcomes, a new study suggests