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How Palmer Luckey Created Oculus Rift
The young visionary dreamed up a homemade headset that may transform everything from gaming to medical treatment to engineering—and beyond
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Some Cell Phone Towers Don’t Just Relay Your Call, They Listen In
The surprisingly affordable way to spy on someone’s phone
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A New Way to See Earthquakes: Peoples’ Fitness Trackers
Yesterday’s Napa earthquake woke people up
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Computer Scientists Hack Michigan Traffic Lights To Show Glaring Security Flaws
Three major weaknesses make traffic lights used in almost all U.S. states prone to attacks
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How You Type Your Password Could Be Its Own Security Measure
Your phone could learn your typing behavior and use that to keep itself safe from intruders
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Google Thinks These 18 Teenagers Will Change the World
The global finalists of this year’s Google Science Fair take on cyberbullying countermeasures, tar sands cleanup and wearable tech
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Here’s One Alternative to Having Your Password Stolen by Russian Hackers
Log in just by clicking your favorite spots on a map
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Scientists Can Now Eavesdrop By Watching a Soundless Video of a Glass of Water
Sound is pressure, pressure causes motion and motion shows up on film
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Researchers Crack the Code of First Impressions
Mathematics identifies the subtle facial features that influence how we judge others
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Astronomers Are Doing Real Science With Space Photos They Found on Flickr
Want to help research? Grab a camera and point it to the heavens
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The Net’s Dark Side: Watch People Try to Hack Each Other, Live
A honeypot network tracks global hacking attempts in real time
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These Psychedelic Images Find Order Amid Chaos
Artist Jonathan McCabe builds computer programs that create their own art—intricately patterned images that look part organic, part kaleidoscopic
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The Turing Test Measures Something, But It’s Not “Intelligence”
A computer program mimicked human conversation so well that it was mistaken for a real live human, but “machine intelligence” still has a long way to go
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Google Is Launching 180 Satellites to Bring the Internet to Remote Corners of the World
Google is acquiring satellite companies and hiring experts to find solutions for bringing internet to remote corners of the world
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The Future is (Still) Here: Day Two of Smithsonian’s Second Annual Conference
Instead of holding its own global fest this year, Nerd Nite descended on our nation’s capital.
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Take a Peek Into the Future’s Present With Our Live Coverage of Smithsonian’s Two-Day Festival
The magazine’s 2nd annual conference brings together experts, authors and visionaries in the fields of science, science fiction and technology.
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Watch the Universe Evolve Over 13 Billion Years
A new computer simulation, called Illustris, can take you on an epic journey through space and time
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50 Years Ago Today, the First BASIC Program Ran in a Dartmouth Basement
The computer language that led the hobbyist computer boom turns 50 today
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Computers Can Tell If You’re Really in Pain—Even Better Than People Can
As computers become better at reading people’s expressions, their potential as lie detectors and diagnostic aids increases
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