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A new exhibit at the Air and Space Museum reveals how we use time and space to get around every day, from maritime exploration to Google maps
April 11, 2013
| By Leah Binkovitz
Imaging technology shows that a reward center known as the nucleus accumbens lights up when we hear melodies we love
April 11, 2013
| By Joseph Stromberg
By turning brains clear and applying colored dyes, connections between neuron networks can now be examined in 3D at unprecedented levels of detail
April 10, 2013
| By Joseph Stromberg
Researchers hope to design a new bedbug eradication method based upon a folk remedy of trapping the bloodsuckers as they creep
April 09, 2013
| By Rachel Nuwer
They're still a threat to bats and birds and now they even have their own "syndrome". So, are there better ways to capture the wind?
April 05, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
Using droplets coated in oil as "ink," a 3D printer can construct a network of synthetic cells that mimics brain and fat tissue
April 04, 2013
| By Marina Koren
A learning algorithm, coupled with brain scans, was able to predict the images seen by dreamers with a 60 percent accuracy
April 04, 2013
| By Joseph Stromberg
The 1985 film that famously revealed the lives of astronauts in zero gravity returns to the big screen
April 02, 2013
| By Marina Koren
Scientists keep learning new things about food all the time, from the diet power of olive oil's aroma to how chewing gum can keep you away from healthy foods.
April 02, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
They're the biggest innovation in higher education in years, but are they a threat to small universities and community colleges?
March 29, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
Researchers use tiny robots to study how ants navigate a labyrinth of networks, from the nest to the food and back again
March 28, 2013
| By Marina Koren
Should sending "Thank you" emails and leaving voice mails now be considered bad manners? Some think texting has made it so.
March 25, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
Scientists retrieved pieces of rocket engines that may have launched the first man to the moon. Will any of them end up at the Air and Space Museum?
March 22, 2013
| By Paul Bisceglio
It's a product of the emerging field of terradynamics, which studies the movement of vehicles across shifting surfaces
March 21, 2013
| By Joseph Stromberg
The new technology can be packed into a tiny space, requires no glasses and can project images and video in full color
March 20, 2013
| By Joseph Stromberg
A division chief and special agent talk about the challenges and rewards of fighting crime across the world
March 20, 2013
| By Leah Binkovitz
Modern headphones have their origin in opera houses, military bases and a kitchen table in Utah
March 19, 2013
| By Jimmy Stamp
When an algorithm-driven light show took over the Bay Bridge last week, it was the latest example of how much technology is transforming how cities look.
March 14, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
A look at the space shuttle toilet and "the deepest, darkest secret about space flight"
March 13, 2013
| By Paul Bisceglio
Your publicly available "likes" can tell others a lot you wouldn't expect—including your political views, sexual orientation and religion
March 11, 2013
| By Joseph Stromberg
More and more scientific research is showing that sleep is more important to our state of mind--and body--than we ever could have imagined.
March 08, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
Deep channels, buried under lava but now mapped with satellite data, give hints to the planet's violent, wet and recent past
March 07, 2013
| By Marina Koren
Actually, fairly smart. And we're only seeing the first wave of smartwatches, with Apple expected to enter the fray as early as this year.
March 05, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
With nanomedicine, the strategy is not to poison cancer cells or to blast them away but to trick them
March 01, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
Can you tell the difference between a replica and the real thing? Does it matter? A curator at Natural History talks about copies, 3-D printing and museums
February 27, 2013
| By Nick Pyenson
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