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Harvard engineers have built a solar harvester that automatically toggles between producing heat and generating electricity ...

The USS Gerald R. Ford isn’t just the world’s largest aircraft carrier — it’s a floating city with 4,600 crew members ...

New Jersey has its share of famous landmarks, but somehow the Sea Girt Lighthouse in Sea Girt flies under the radar despite ...

Here’s a fun fact that’ll make you feel like you’ve been missing out: there’s a lighthouse in Ohio that’s been doing its job ...

XPANCEO, a deep-tech company developing smart contact lenses, has unveiled a passive eye-tracking system that achieves ...

High-performance, ultracompact lenses are needed in the quest to miniaturize optical systems. It now seems that carefully engineered subwavelength gratings can function as almost perfect mirrors with ...

Near-infrared spectroscopy, or fNIRS, offers a way to monitor brain activity without surgery or radiation by tracking changes in blood flow and oxygenation. Light sources placed on the scalp send near ...

What is the best VR headset? While we still wait to see whether the Steam Frame is truly going to be the best VR headset for PC gamers, there are still plenty of great choices available right now.