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Your Cell Phone Could Soon Become Part of a Massive Earthquake Detection System

In the future, your cell phone's accelerometer could help detect earthquakes
December 05, 2012 | By Colin Schultz

The First Text Message, Sent Twenty Years Ago, Was ‘Merry Christmas’

Text messaging turns twenty - celebrating two decades of helping people plan where to meet, wish happy birthday, break up, make up, and generally communicate without actually having to talk to one another
December 05, 2012 | By Rose Eveleth

Electric Bus Charges While It Picks Up Passengers

Utah State University's buses charge like an electric toothbrush or cell phone while dropping off and picking up passengers
December 04, 2012 | By Rachel Nuwer

Could a Computer Out-Diagnose Dr. House?

Could computers may make diagnostic wizardry a thing of the past?
December 04, 2012 | By Rachel Nuwer

You Can Now Have Pixar’s Cute Moving Lamp As a Pet

A playful, moving pet robot lamp
December 03, 2012 | By Colin Schultz

Find Out How Stressed Out Your Dog Really Is

If tracking your own personal feelings, calories, productivity and health weren't keeping you busy enough, the Japanese company Fujitsu wants you to be able to do it for your dog too
December 03, 2012 | By Rose Eveleth

Have GPS Devices Taken the Fun out of Navigation?

With the rise of the digital age, the fascinating skills of map reading and celestial navigation are becoming lost arts
December 03, 2012 | By Alastair Bland

The Pope’s Tweets Are Official Church Doctrine

The pope is officially Tweeting now, under the handle @pontifex, and his Tweets are officially "part of the church's magisterium." Which means that anything he Tweets is the teaching authority of the Catholic Church
December 03, 2012 | By Rose Eveleth

Video Games Are Officially Art, According to the MoMA

The Museum of Modern Art bought 14 video games last week to add to their permanent collection - making video games not just interesting anthropological artifacts, but also a form of art
December 03, 2012 | By Rose Eveleth

Open-Fire Stoves Kill Millions. How Do We Fix it?

Pollutants from crude stoves are responsible for many deaths – a D.C.-based NGO has a solution
December 2012 | By Ingfei Chen

Dr. NakaMats

Dr. NakaMats, the Man With 3300 Patents to His Name

Meet the most famous inventor you’ve never heard of – whose greatest invention may be himself
December 2012 | By Franz Lidz

Elon Musk, the Rocket Man With a Sweet Ride

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

Photos: A Last Look at Fall

Before the weather turns cold, take one last walk in the woods with these beautiful autumn photos submitted by our readers
December 2012 | By Smithsonian.com

Sebastion Thrun

How Artificial Intelligence Can Change Higher Education

Sebastian Thrun, winner of the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for education takes is redefining the modern classroom
December 2012 | By Tom Vanderbilt

Watch All of 2012′s Hurricanes in One Video

Today marks the end of hurricane season. Here's the run down on the year, and every storm on one animation
November 30, 2012 | By Rose Eveleth

The Strange Things We Do To Keep Our Food Cold

Whether it was shipped to you from somewhere, stored in a warehouse, or sold nice and chilly, over 3/4 of the food we eat has been commercially refrigerated
November 29, 2012 | By Rose Eveleth

The Meals That Starving Travelers Dream Of

Daydreaming of food is a tradition as old as the saga of man versus wild. What would you wish to eat if you were starving in a tent or a dinghy at sea?
November 28, 2012 | By Alastair Bland

A Real, Working Transformer Robot!

This remote-controlled car turns into a walking, missile-shooting robot
November 27, 2012 | By Colin Schultz

Getting the Prosthetic Is Easy, Compared to Getting It To Do What You Want

Prosthetic technology is getting better, and many of these amputees are learning to live with new arms and legs. But while getting the prosthetic might be costly, it's learning how to use it that's the real struggle
November 27, 2012 | By Rose Eveleth

This Robot Is a Better Dad Than Your Dad

Disney is building a robot that can play catch
November 27, 2012 | By Rose Eveleth


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