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You might call Jeffrey Shapiro the reluctant godfather of quantum radar. Twelve years ago, the electrical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) helped develop the key concept underlying this scheme to dramatically increase radar’s sensitivity. But even he doesn’t think the technology will work. “There’s just a lot […]

As an undergraduate in Mumbai, India, Saad Bhamla wanted to do something nice for his maternal grandparents: Buy them a pair of hearing aids. But the prices were shockingly high—and far beyond his means. Now, 15 years later, the bioengineer has invented a device to help grandparents across the globe: […]

The team at Imperial College London hope to launch a large 20,000-person trial of the COVID-19 vaccine before the end of this year.

The meteorite may have been longer than two football fields.

The charity The Health Foundation is concerned people have yet to see the results of the app’s pilots.

Material scientists, historians and archaeologists previously considered chromium steel to be a 20th century innovation.

Here are some brief reports about science and technology from all over, including one from Israel about what DNA reveals about the Dead Sea Scrolls’ parchment. 

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine sometimes gets mistaken for the leader of a different agency. “A lot of people ask me about the Space Force,” he said today at an event called the Space Power Forum. “They say, ‘So how’s the Space Force coming along?’ and, ‘Congratulations on the Space Force.’” […]

Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.