Hard Tech

3D-printed “superalloy” could make power plants more efficient
The material is both stronger and lighter than those used to make conventional turbines.
This soft brain implant unfurls its arms under the skull
A soft brain implant that unfurls under the skull could make implantation surgeries less costly and risky.
MIT breakthrough creates world’s smallest holographic microscope
The world’s smallest holographic microscope foreshadows a future in which smartphones could be used for high-res microscopy.
This mass-produced solar car costs just $25,900
Tom Cruise deepfake is the work of a pro VFX artist
A new device can use your body heat to increase battery life
Inside the arctic vault protecting human culture from an apocalypse
Soft robots could get stronger by pumping iron
Futuristic city will be a testbed for robots & autonomous cars
Metahuman lets you create photorealistic, animated digital humans
Light-driven levitation could lift probes to the edge of space
New intelligent material could become a “quantum brain”
New Google tool lets you experience synesthesia