A growing network of automated sensors is now tracking river water quality continuously, from upland streams all the way to the sea.

Data centre engineers are testing sealed liquid cooling loops as the practical answer to racks of artificial intelligence hardware that now.

Wireless earbuds began as a convenient way to hear music without cables, but they are steadily becoming tools for communication as well.

Telescopes on high, dry mountain sites spend clear nights collecting light that has travelled for billions of years, and modern survey programmes.

Smart glasses fitted with cameras and spatial audio are giving blind and partially sighted travellers a new way to navigate busy cities independently.

Some of the coldest places in the solar system lie in permanent shadow on the Moon, inside polar craters whose floors have not seen sunlight for.

Volcano observatories are gaining a new layer of vigilance from constellations of small satellites that can revisit the same summit every day,.