The world's earliest computer was a silk loom built in China over two millennia ago, according to a claim made by China's ...

With a storage capacity of 36 petabytes, a DNA-based cassette tape can hold every song every recorded, and it could be on the ...

Every task we perform on a computer—whether number crunching, watching a video, or typing out an article—requires different ...

Inspired by kirigami, a type of Japanese paper art, researchers have created a new material that transforms from a grid into ...

A 2,000-year-old loom found in a Chinese tomb may hold the key to the origins of computing.

Scientists are building experimental computers from living human brain cells and testing how they learn and adapt.

The computer, at its core, is an input-output device: it receives instructions, executes programmes, performs calculations ...

The magnetic compass is the last unknown sense in migrating animals. For some scientists, the monarch butterfly is leading ...

The researchers behind the recent work, based in China, decided to implement something similar for an artificial skin that ...

MIT researchers have developed a new method for designing 3D structures that can be transformed from a flat configuration ...

Using a diamond as a quantum simulator, scientists created a rondeau time crystal, which exhibited both long-range temporal ...