The Digital Economy and the Urgency of Modernization The digital economy is an unrelenting force. Traditional business ...

Human activity now shapes the majority of the planet’s ecosystems. Urbanisation, land-use change, agriculture, and environmental disturbance are altering ...

Over the past three decades, observers have become far better at documenting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s global espionage and influence activities, from U.S. Navy sailors selling warship ...

Recent research showed that an artificially constructed RNA self-replicating system modeling primitive life at the origin of life evolved to become more prone to extinction under certain experimental ...

Watch the ghosts in Pac-Man long enough, and they start to feel personal. They chase, they corner, they seem to want you. They don’t. Each ghost works on a few simple instructions: if the player moves ...

Heavy machinery is entering a new phase where hydraulics, electronics and embedded software are engineered as one integrated system. Using model-based systems engineering (MBSE) as a framework to ...

X-Bow Systems has agreed to acquire Evolution Space to scale production of advanced solid rocket motors, or SRMs, and expand its hypersonic capabilities. The company said Tuesday the acquisition, ...

Researchers have created a method called optovolution that uses light to guide the evolution of proteins with dynamic behaviors. By engineering yeast cells so their survival depended on proteins ...

Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the evolution of the vertebrate eye. New research suggests that it traces back to a cyclopean invertebrate with a single eye atop the head. By Carl Zimmer Look at ...

Why did humans evolve the eyes we have today? While scientists can't go back in time to study the environmental pressures that shaped the evolution of the diverse vision systems that exist in nature, ...