Invention

Imagine your car starting the moment you get in because it recognizes the jacket you're wearing. Consider the value of a hospital gown that continuously measures and transmits a patient's vital signs. These are just two applications made…

The most common pharmaceuticals on the market are made by chaining together rings of molecules to create the drugs that treat conditions including pain, depression and leukemia. But creating those rings and forming them in a way that is…

Even in 2021, I still hear people saying, "Open source is somehow suspicious, or it's not good for business." Multi-billion-dollar Chinese companies…

This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. Here is a collection of past columns.In yesterday’s newsletter, I lamented that more companies don’t ask, “Is this a good idea?” when they’re cooking up new products.Today I want to write…

What does one of the top retail credit-card endpoint companies, Square, have to do with open-source software? The answer, as it is for most…

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently unveiled their discovery of a new process for making RNA. The resulting RNA is purer, more copious and likely to be more cost-effective than any previous process could manage.…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In the late 1970s, M. Stanley Whittingham was the first to describe the concept of rechargeable lithium-ion…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain An elegant new algorithm developed by Danish researchers can significantly reduce the resource consumption of the…

Express News Service A couple of days back, I heard about actor Appani Sarath turning director with a web series for YouTube. Titled Monica, the series will constitute episodes of 10-min duration each. When I called him…

Mehrdad Nojoumian, Ph.D., inventor, and an associate professor in the Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and director of the…