A giant new tech hub near Shanghai successfully attracted major names like Tesla, but Lingang remains almost empty of residents three years into its launch.

Mina Bionta explores how light interacts with matter by capturing snapshots of those interactions on the timescale of the light’s oscillations.

The new Pew Research Center report found a surge of adults leaving Christianity to become atheist, agnostic, or “nothing in particular.”

Those with phobias of needles can now get tattoos without having to worry.

Scientists have developed a way to get a permanent tattoo without going under the needle and suffering through hours of pain.

The new technology is in the form of a skin patch that has microneedles smaller than grains of sand. While it still has “needle” in the name, these microscopic needles are of no comparison to the ordinary needles one would have to endure and the impact is painless and bloodless.

The device produces hydrogen without consuming freshwater resources.

Ready for life on land or water, the net-zero LilliHaus is a plug-and-play prefab by SysHaus.

A cartoon illustrates results from the MICROSCOPE satellite mission, which has measured with astronomical sensitivity the falling rate of different objects under gravity.

—Matthew R. Francis is a physicist and freelance science writer based in Virginia.

—Maki Naro is a science illustrator based in New York.

Direct air electrolyzers could produce hydrogen in arid regions still rich in wind and sun.

Large-scale plants that make seawater drinkable supply urban areas, but the world needs portable versions to serve remote or refugee populations.