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The debate over drones stirs up questions about whether robots can learn ethical behavior. Will they be able to make moral decisions?
February 08, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
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Pro football is turning to screens--some massive, others on smart phones--to try to keep its fans entertained.
February 01, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
We're getting closer to the day when your smartphone knows you have a cold before you do
January 30, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
As cities like New York prepare for what appears to be a future of more extreme weather, the focus increasingly is on following nature's lead.
January 23, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
HapiFork, a utensil that slows down your eating, is one of a new wave of gadgets designed to help you take control of your health.
January 17, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
Every January, at the Consumer Electronics Show, companies make a point of showing us how much smarter TVs have become, with the hope that they'll once again become our favorite screen.
January 11, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
Giving computers vision, through pattern recognition algorithms, could one day make them better than doctors at spotting tumors and other health problems.
January 07, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
All are inventive minds pushing technology in fresh directions, some to solve stubborn problems, others to make our lives a little fuller
December 27, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
Here's the second half of a list of innovations that, while not as splashy as Google Glass, may actually become a bigger part of our daily lives.
December 21, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
They haven't received much attention yet, but here are some of the more innovative--and useful--ideas that have popped up this year.
December 18, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
In Chile’s Atacama Desert, astronomers are preparing for a new array that will stretch across 10 miles
January 2013
| By Leah Binkovitz
Canadian researchers have created a computer model that performs tasks like a human brain. It also sometimes forgets things.
December 14, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
In the future, your cell phone's accelerometer could help detect earthquakes
December 05, 2012
| By Colin Schultz
From glasses that fight jet lag to a plant that waters itself to a rocking chair that fires up the iPad, here are presents no one will forget.
December 07, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
Health and medical mobile apps are booming. But what happens when they shift from tracking data to diagnosing diseases?
December 04, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
Born in desperation and long mocked, the social media platform has become a popular research and intelligence-gathering tool.
November 30, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
Follow along as we award the best innovators of the year
November 28, 2012
| By Brian Wolly
Retailers are mining personal data to learn everything about you so they can help you help yourself to their products.
November 27, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
James Anderson, the winner of a Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award, has discovered the alarming link between climate change and ozone loss
December 2012
| By Sharon Begley
Pollutants from crude stoves are responsible for many deaths – a D.C.-based NGO has a solution
December 2012
| By Ingfei Chen
Meet the most famous inventor you’ve never heard of – whose greatest invention may be himself
December 2012
| By Franz Lidz
Sure, it can get aggravating, but here are some innovations that are making it easier and more enjoyable to take a trip
November 20, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
The winner of the Smithsonian Ingenuity Award for technology hopes to launch a revolution with his spaceship and electric car
December 2012
| By Carl Hoffman
Combustion experiments conducted in zero gravity yield surprising results
December 2012
| By Ker Than
Our editor-in-chief introduces the inaugural Smithsonian American Ingenuity Awards
December 2012
| By Michael Caruso
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