Technology
Technological applications and advances in computers, agriculture, industry and transportation
Your Password Will Probably be Hacked Soon
Passwords are getting weaker and hackers are getting better at figuring them out
August 27, 2012 |
By Rose Eveleth
Check Out the Milwaukee Police’s Mind-Blowing, Crime-Busting Site
The Milwaukee Police are tackling crime with creativity and great web design
August 27, 2012 |
By Rachel Nuwer
Why is Bluetooth Called Bluetooth? (Hint: Vikings!)
Bluetooth's odd name harkens back to Swedish telecommunication company Ericsson's Viking heritage
August 27, 2012 |
By Rachel Nuwer
Who Needs to Wash Their Twitter Mouth Out? A Map of Profanity on Twitter
Watch the Twitter users of the United States wake up and greet their followers with either a good morning, or something a little less appropriate
August 21, 2012 |
By Rose Eveleth
Bill Gates’ Potty Mouth – His Eco-friendly Toilet Contest Hands Out $100,000 in Prizes
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Reinvent the Toilet Challenge invited entrepreneurs and researchers to try their hand at creating novel ways of disposing of - or even better, making use of - human waste
August 20, 2012 |
By Rachel Nuwer
Better, Faster, Taller – How Big can Buildings Really Get?
The race for the tallest structure in the world has been with us since humans built structures, and today it is going strong. But where's the limit?
August 20, 2012 |
By Rose Eveleth
Books of the Future May Be Written in DNA
Researchers have encoded a book, including pictures and an accompanying computer program, in DNA
August 17, 2012 |
By Rachel Nuwer
The Laboratory of Nikola Tesla, One of History’s Greatest Scientists, Is Up For Sale
Nikola Tesla invented a device that uses lightning to play music. No, seriously
August 17, 2012 |
By Colin Schultz
Good Morning Curiosity – Wake up With the Same Songs as a Mars Rover
Every Martian morning, the Curiosity rover gets a wakeup song
August 17, 2012 |
By Rose Eveleth
Why You Should Stop Worrying About the Robot Apocalypse
You, for one, won't have to welcome your robot overlords too soon
August 16, 2012 |
By Rose Eveleth
Aircraft Design Inspired by Nature and Enabled by Tech
In 2050, Airbus hopes to fly you around in a see-through jet shaped like a bird skeleton, with morphing seats, spa treatments, and virtual entertainment
August 16, 2012 |
By Sarah C. Rich
Yesterday’s Tomorrows: How a Smithsonian Exhibit I Never Saw Changed My Life
Meet the historians who pioneered scholarship of retro-futurism
August 15, 2012 |
By Matt Novak
Doctors Probe Bodies with Tiny Microscopes But Don’t Know What They Are Seeing
Because tiny space-age probes are used by only a handful of specialists around the country, a new study found that different labs are interpreting what they see in very different ways
August 15, 2012 |
By Rachel Nuwer
Julia Child Loved Science but Would Hate Today’s Food
It's her 100th birthday today, and while the master chef loved science she would have hated today's laboratory produced food
August 15, 2012 |
By Rose Eveleth
Shark Week Proves We Are Fascinated by Sharks, So Why Do We Kill So Many of Them?
Around the world, these animals command a strange sort of fascination in their human admirers—an urge to see, learn and encounter, but also to kill
August 14, 2012 |
By Alastair Bland
Designing Bandaids that Stick When Wet Based on Gecko Feet
Scientists are unlocking the secrets behind tiny adhesive structures in gecko toes in the hopes of designing new technologies.
August 10, 2012 |
By Rachel Nuwer
Olympic Hurdling Record Broken in 1.5 Seconds – On Google Doodle
Programmers use a few lines of code to crack the Google Doodle hurdling puzzle. The rest of us still press the arrow keys frantically.
August 10, 2012 |
By Rose Eveleth
The LEGO-like Building Blocks of the Olympic Slalom Canoe
How a three-time Olympic competitor designed an innovative new whitewater system using underwater bricks
August 09, 2012 |
By Sarah C. Rich
The History of the Exclamation Point
Everyone likes to complain that we're using too many exclamation points these days. Here's where the punctuation came from.
August 09, 2012 |
By Rose Eveleth
Long Before Curiosity, Carl Sagan Had Something to Say to Kids About Mars
In a lectures series for children, Carl Sagan educates us all on the history and exploration of Mars.
August 08, 2012 |
By Rose Eveleth
