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Scientists Map Buried Flood Channels on Mars in 3D
Deep channels, buried under lava but now mapped with satellite data, give hints to the planet’s violent, wet and recent past
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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
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The War on Cancer Goes Stealth
With nanomedicine, the strategy is not to poison cancer cells or to blast them away but to trick them
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A New Addition to the International Space Station
The AMS can detect and sort hundreds of billions of high-energy particles whizzing through space
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Could Solar Panels on Your Roof Power Your Home?
Researchers at MIT are investigating how to turn houses in Cambridge, Massachusetts, into mini-power plants
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From Pyenson Lab: When Is a Museum Specimen the Real Deal?
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
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Video: This Stretchable Battery Could Power the Next Generation of Wearable Gadgets
Durable and rechargeable, the new battery can be stretched to 300 percent of its size and still provide power
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A new fleet of nanosatellites is zooming through space
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How to Survive China’s Pollution Problem: Masks and Bubbles
The air quality in China’s biggest cities is famously atrocious, but designers think they may have found a way to combat the issue
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The White House wants to fund a huge project that would allow scientists to see, in real time, how a brain does its work
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An Artificial Ear Built By a 3D Printer and Living Cartilage Cells
Cornell scientists used computerized scanning, 3D printers and cartilage from cows to create living prosthetic ears
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What Can We Do About Big Rocks From Space?
Last week’s close encounters with space rocks have raised concerns about how we deal with dangerous asteroids. Here’s how we would try to knock them off course.
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Any Two Pages on the Web Are Connected By 19 Clicks or Less
There are more than 14 billion pages on the web, but they are linked by hyperconnected nodes, like Hollywood actors connected through Kevin Bacon
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The Drones of the Future May Build Skyscrapers
Innovative architects are experimenting with small unmanned aerial vehicles to prove that drones can do more than cause destruction
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Don’t understand love? Not to worry. Scientists continue to study away to try to make sense of it for the rest of us
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Unmanned Drones Have Been Around Since World War I
They have recently been the subject of a lot of scrutiny, but the American military first began developing similar aerial vehicles during World War I
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Imagining a Drone-Proof City in the Age of Surveillance
As drones become common as tools of the military and intelligence agencies, how are architects and designers responding?
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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?
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The Privacy Wars: Goggles That Block Facial Recognition Technology
For designers, the battle over what it means to be private in a very public world is a new frontier to be conquered
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The Year’s Most Outstanding Science Visualizations
A juried competition honors photographs, illustrations, videos, posters, games and apps that marry art and science in an evocative way
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