Charles Scalfini, the CTO of Panoramic Software, makes the case for why programmers should make the leap to functional programming, which promises more maintainable code, and eliminates some of the problems inherent to conventional languages. 

Nick Brown, vice-president of product at Truepic, describes how the company's technology and standards developed by the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity is fighting fakes and other forms of image tampering, by securing data from the camera lens to the users' screens. 

Chad Bouton of the Institute of Bioelectronic Medicine at Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research and his electrophysiological research into decoding and recoding the signals used by nerves. The goal is to bypass damage and restore some feeling and movement for patients with paralytic injuries.

Microsoft Research's Philipp Witte is working on making it safer and cheaper to keep warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

The prosthetics industry is too focused on high-tech limbs that are complicated, costly, and often impractical. Britt S. Young discusses her report into how the real needs of disabled people are often obscured.

Rising temperatures are driving the push for a radical and controversial technology

Epidemiologist Dr. Lee Harrison uses electronic medical records and whole-genome sequencing to track down runaway hospital infections

Vyasa's Christopher Bouton wants to cure data problems—and some diseases

Automotive reporter John Voelcker explains why getting EVs charged is easier than you think

Tech historian James Cortada charts the company’s many rises and falls—past, present, and future

Sentiment analysis, which can already identify anger, joy, fear, sadness, and confidence, can now spot sarcasm as well

A startup, led by a 25-year-old chemical engineer, is leading the way

…. and float them out to sea. What could go wrong?

A data-science startup is helping oil and gas companies—and wind farms too— reduce production losses and improve sustainability

How Should the Law Treat AI?

Will second-tier cities like Pittsburgh and Baltimore emerge from the pandemic stronger and readier to face climate change?

The Appalachian regions of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia are rich in natural gas, and growing poorer because of it.

Instead of being directed movement by movement, an AI-based leg prosthetic infers the wearer’s destination

How cellphones will soon have better battery life, higher data rates, and replace broadband for millions of people

A new book analyzes the seven grand transitions—population agricultural practices, energy sources and conversion, industrialization and the rise of services, trade, wealth distribution, and the environment—that have formed the modern world

Can nation-states defend themselves from hackers and one another?

A mathematician uses statistical science to prove gerrymandering, and courts are sometimes convinced

A startup founded by two economists thinks direct air capture of carbon can be made cost-effective

The energy economy is changing faster than ever. Economist Kathy Hipple surveys the landscape

Argonne National Lab’s new ability to look inside a battery will lead to better, lighter, quicker-charging batteries, from phones to cars