Inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, an MIT team has designed a technique that could transform flat panels into medical devices, habitats, and other objects without the use of tools. MIT ...

Thirty years ago today, Netscape Communications and Sun Microsystems issued a joint press release announcing JavaScript, an object scripting language designed for creating interactive web applications ...

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You’re reading Infinite Scroll, Kyle Chayka’s weekly column on how technology shapes culture. The “lumpenproletariat,” according to “The Communist Manifesto,” is “the social scum, that passively ...

Scientists have created human eggs containing genes from adult skin cells, a step that someday could help women who are infertile or gay couples have babies with their own genes but would also raise ...

I believe there are two versions of purpose. Big P Purpose is audacious and goal-oriented. It has an all-or-nothing focus and often leaves us chasing huge, distant outcomes. The end result, more often ...

Q. I currently keep a static to-do list, and I would like to update it to be more dynamic. Do you have any advice? A. Microsoft Excel is best known for crunching numbers, but it’s also a powerful tool ...

In a few key areas, humans will be more essential than ever. Credit...Illustration by Stephan Dybus Supported by By Robert Capps Robert Capps is the former editorial director of Wired. He frequently ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Tuesday night, many Springfield residents and people across the Ozarks looked up in the sky to see a string of lights. While there have been a few theories on social media, the fact ...

Black holes, the densest objects in the universe, eat up anything that comes too close, even light. Is there anything left inside these behemoths that could reveal what they devoured in the first ...

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Google says it has begun requiring users to turn on JavaScript, the widely used programming language to make web pages interactive, in order to use Google Search. In ...