R&D Magazine is proud to announce Josh Tenenbaum, PhD, a computational cognitive scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as the 2018 Innovator of the Year. Tenenbaum was honored for his work studying the nature and origins of intelligence in the human mind and brain and applying that knowledge to build more human-like intelligence in…

1. She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity by Carl Zimmer Award-winning, celebrated New York Times columnist and science writer Carl Zimmer presents a profoundly original perspective on what we pass along from generation to generation. Charles Darwin played a crucial part in turning heredity into a scientific question, and yet he failed spectacularly…

Much like amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, materials are the building blocks of the past, present and future. Metals, polymers, ceramics, semiconductors, gels, crystals—the list is limitless. These materials are all crucial to the scientific industry as they often become the basis for consumer products. Advances in materials development made in the…

The R&D 100 Awards Committee and R&D Magazine today announced the 2016 R&D 100 Award Finalists for the 54th annual R&D 100 Awards, which honors the 100 most innovative technologies and services of the past year. This year’s R&D 100 Award Winners will be presented with their honors at the annual black-tie awards dinner on November…