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Giving computers vision, through pattern recognition algorithms, could one day make them better than doctors at spotting tumors and other health problems.
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PHOTOS: Getting Ready for the World’s Largest Radio Telescope
In Chile’s Atacama Desert, astronomers are preparing for a new array that will stretch across 10 miles
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Six Innovators to Watch in 2013
All are inventive minds pushing technology in fresh directions, some to solve stubborn problems, others to make our lives a little fuller
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The Best Inventions of 2012 You Haven’t Heard of Yet (Part 2)
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.
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The Best Inventions of 2012 You Haven’t Heard of Yet (Part 1)
They haven’t received much attention yet, but here are some of the more innovative—and useful—ideas that have popped up this year.
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Canadian researchers have created a computer model that performs tasks like a human brain. It also sometimes forgets things
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10 Gifts to Celebrate Innovation
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
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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
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Take Two Pills and Charge Me in the Morning
Health and medical mobile apps are booming. But what happens when they shift from tracking data to diagnosing diseases?
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The Ozone Problem is Back – And Worse Than Ever
James Anderson, the winner of a Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award, has discovered the alarming link between climate change and ozone loss
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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
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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
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In Space, Flames Behave in Ways Nobody Thought Possible
Combustion experiments conducted in zero gravity yield surprising results
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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
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Why Give an Award on Ingenuity?
Our editor-in-chief introduces the inaugural Smithsonian American Ingenuity Awards
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8 Ways People Are Taking Twitter Seriously
Born in desperation and long mocked, the social media platform has become a popular research and intelligence-gathering tool
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The 2012 Smithsonian American Ingenuity Awards Liveblog
Follow along as we award the best innovators of the year
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Retailers are mining personal data to learn everything about you so they can help you help yourself to their products.
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How Weather Models and Google Could Help Forecast Flu Season
Principles from the weather models that predicted Sandy a week ahead of time might be used to warn about the flu before it arrives
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