Over the past decades, engineers have introduced numerous technologies that rely on light and its underlying characteristics.

Capacitors store and release energy in tiny bursts, helping circuits run smoothly and safely. This video explains how they ...

Researchers have made a major advance in quantum computing with a new device that is nearly 100 times smaller than the ...

Cycad cones aren’t always hot. Instead, they follow daily cycles of heating and cooling: Pollen-laden male cones produce a big burst of heat in the late afternoon, and then ovulating female cones warm ...

The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they ...

The FDA has approved a device that aims to treat depression by sending electric current into a part of the brain known to ...

MIT researchers have developed a new fabrication method that could enable the production of more energy efficient electronics by stacking multiple functional components on top of one existing circuit.

A precision voltage divider produces a specific fraction of its input voltage using carefully matched resistive components.