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Innovator Under 35: Yihui Zhang
Pop-up nanostructures make it far easier to fabricate very tiny shapes.
Innovator Under 35: Ehsan Hoque
If you want to be the life of the party, practice by talking to a machine first.
Innovator Under 35: Alex Hegyi
A new type of camera could let smartphones find counterfeit drugs or spot the ripest peach.
Innovator Under 35: Nora Ayanian
To build better machines, a roboticist goes far outside her field for guidance.
Innovator Under 35: Jean Yang
Why don’t computers keep our personal data secure by default?
Innovator Under 35: Kevin Esvelt
A scientist who is developing new gene-editing techniques also warns of their potential.
Innovators Under 35: Pioneers
Pushing the edge of science, these innovators are creating new approaches to tackling technology challenges.
Innovators Under 35: Inventors
These innovators are building the stuff of the future, from a smart sweatband to tomorrow’s memory technology.
Innovators Under 35
Our 16th annual list of young innovators highlights a mix of inventors, pioneers, entrepreneurs, humanitarians, and visionaries who are poised to be leaders in their fields.
Manufacturing Dopamine in the Brain with Gene Therapy
A novel solution for Parkinson’s patients who find their treatments wearing off.
How Your Next Car Could Help Make Itself Obsolete
Driving cars on the road might be the best way to create maps for tomorrow’s autonomous ones.
Fetal Cells Offer Promise in Prenatal Testing
A scientist says a blood test that can discern a fetus’s entire genome is coming.
Commuter Rail Workers in Boston Are About to Get Bionic Eyes
Smart glasses for field mechanics will use augmented reality to improve train efficiency and reduce costs.
The Next Must-Have Smartphone Feature
Google’s new location-sensing system will make augmented reality far more useful.
Life as an Entrepreneur in a Violent Mexico
The Mexican market offers great opportunity for mobile technologies, but it comes with risk.
Will Embryonic Stem Cells Ever Cure Anything?
Inside the long, costly effort to cure diabetes with stem cells.
The Painkillers That Could End the Opioid Crisis
Researchers may soon vanquish our pain without causing addiction and other devastating side effects.
Augmented Reality Could Speed Up Construction Projects
Builders are experimenting with Microsoft’s HoloLens to visualize projects and avoid expensive mistakes.
How a Digital Technology Might Speed Up Construction Projects
Builders are experimenting with Microsoft’s HoloLens to visualize projects and avoid expensive mistakes.
AI’s Language Problem
Machines that truly understand language would be incredibly useful. But we don’t know how to build them.
Can We Help the Losers in Climate Change?
The demise of the coal industry should start a discussion of how we will respond to the economic upheaval caused by global warming.
In Texas Oil Country, Wind Is Straining the Grid
A new $8 billion electricity transmission system is now complete, but it’s already nearing maximum capacity.
How to Give Fake Hands Real Feeling
In Zhenan Bao’s lab at Stanford, researchers are ­inventing materials for touch-sensitive prosthetics.
How Public Shame Might Force a Revolution in Computer Security
New incentives could make corporations work harder to keep our data safe.
The HR Person at Your Next Job May Actually Be a Bot
Chatbots are being prepped to take over many administrative tasks.
Fail-Safe Nuclear Power
Cheaper and cleaner nuclear plants could finally become reality—but not in the United States, where the technology was invented more than 50 years ago.
Google and Microsoft Want Every Company to Scrutinize You with AI
The tech giants are eager to rent out their AI breakthroughs to other companies.
Artificial Pancreas Is First To Raise $1 Million Under New Crowdfunding Rules
When Beta Bionics needed idealistic investors it found them on the Web.
This Tiny Country Thinks Virtual Citizens Will Make It Rich
Estonia aims to bring 10 million people to its digital shores.
Taking Genomic Data Global
Startups focused on Asia are among those aiming to bring precision medicine to far more people.
Inside Genomics Pioneer Craig Venter’s Latest Production
His startup is using data to unlock the connections between DNA and illness.
Slow Progress to Better Medicine
Thirteen years after the human genome was sequenced, some remarkable treatments are being developed.
Connected Toys Are Raising Complicated New Privacy Questions
Toys and other devices are collecting loads of data from children. What could go wrong?
Minecraft Is a Testing Ground for Human-AI Collaboration
Microsoft turns the popular game into an “AI Olympics.”
Gene Therapy Trial Wrenches Families as One Child’s Death Saves Another
New DNA fix stops brain-destroying terminal illness, but only if it’s given early enough.
Europe Builds a Network for the Internet of Things. Will the Devices Follow?
So far, connected devices are monitoring shipping containers, fire hydrants, and cows.
Better Than Opioids? Virtual Reality Could Be Your Next Painkiller
In one study, virtual reality did about as well as narcotics in reducing pain.
Why Kickstarter’s Glowing Plant Left Backers in the Dark
Do-it-yourself biologists who hit the crowdfunding jackpot have learned that genetic engineering isn’t so easy after all.
Plant That Won’t Glow Shows DIY Biohacking Is Overhyped
Do-it-yourself biologists who hit the jackpot on Kickstarter have learned that genetic engineering isn’t so easy after all.
Tougher Turing Test Exposes Chatbots’ Stupidity
We have a long way to go if we want virtual assistants to understand us.
Find Out Which Appliance Is Sucking All Your Power
Sense’s $299 gadget identifies individual devices in the home and exactly how much electricity they are using.
Tesla’s Strategy Is Risky and Aggressive, but It Has Worked
Elon Musk has made a bold bet that the car industry can move faster than anybody believed possible.
China’s Massive Effort to Purify Seawater Is Drying Up
Stalled projects and underperforming plants have hampered China’s desalination plans.
A New Way of Looking at Solar Cells
Perovskite crystals could be engineered to far outperform silicon.
The Internet of Things Could Keep Dirty Coal Plants in Business
Digitization promises lower annual emissions but could increase them over plants’ lifetimes.
Are Face Recognition Systems Accurate? Depends on Your Race.
The available evidence suggests that face matching systems don’t work equally well for different races.
Hacking a Desktop Printer to Make Batteries and Circuits
Want to make a smart coffee mug that signals “hot”? A customized printer can make the flexible circuits and supercapacitors you’ll need.
Funding of Space Ventures Gets a Lift
Extraterrestrial ventures are no longer limited to deep-pocketed tycoons.
Startup Funding Space Ventures Gets a Lift
Extraterrestrial ventures are no longer limited to deep-pocketed tycoons.
Unicorn Instacart Hopes Its Data Scientists Can Calculate a Path to Profits
Same-day grocery delivery is a notoriously difficult business, but Instacart believes it’s found a way to make money.
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