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10 Everyday Technologies That Can Change the World
09 09 2008 Who knew that providing energy and water for all could be a matter of foot cranks and dirt power?
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Want to Know Which Electronics Suck? Ask Your Computer.
08 09 2008 Too many online reviews to read and not enough time? A new start-up mines hundreds of conflicting online reviews of Amazon’s electronic products and delivers its own computer-generated judgments.
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Forecasting the Future May Be a Matter of Fun and Games
06 09 2008 A new online game uses crowdsourcing to find out how to save humans from extinction.
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Protecting Your Vote With Invisible Ink
05 09 2008 If cryptographer David Chaum and his team have their way, the system you'll be using to vote in the 2012 presidential election will guarantee that your vote is actually counted as cast and ensure that no one tampers with the results. Their system uses a mix of encryption, voter receipts, online vote tallies, and, yes, invisible ink. Here's a step-by-step guide to how it works.
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The Second Coming of Biofuels
03 09 2008 Everyone's talking about electric cars and hydrogen prototypes, but the most eco-friendly solution to our transportation energy woes might be a lot less flashy: regular old cars running on a new kind of biofuel.
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Robert Lanza
01 09 2008
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What Invisible Things Are in the Surfaces You Touch and Air You Breathe?
29 08 2008 From radio waves to bedrock to dust mites to microbes, the unseen dominates our daily lives in ways we rarely realize. DISCOVER senior editor Stephen Cass reveals the invisible secrets of things we do and see every day.
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Oldsters' New Fountain of Youth: Video Games
27 08 2008 Some specially tailored games seem to help preserve mental fitness.
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The Future Is Now for Rechargeable Laptop Batteries
24 08 2008 Frustrated with the short life of your laptop's lithium-ion battery? A new technology is being developed to revolutionize rechargeable batteries, using silver- and zinc-based electrodes.
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Fighting for the Right to Clone
19 08 2008 Stem cell and cloning guru Robert Lanza has battled the Catholic Church, the White House, and violent protesters.
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Vernor Vinge
18 08 2008 A science fiction giant reveals his reading list.
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How to Hitchhike Across the Globe Without Leaving Your Living Room
17 08 2008 The 360° World Atlas turns anyone with a computer into a global traveler.
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20 Things You Didn't Know About... Sports Technology
14 08 2008 From luge suits to computerized tennis ball trackers, sports technology has chartered a path for modern athletes to move faster, go higher, and stay safer.
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A Look at the World's First Computer
14 08 2008 The Victorian-age machine is finally up and running.
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A GPS to Augment Your Entire Reality
11 08 2008 In due time, we may all be living in "augmented reality"â€'a universe of digital information layered over the real world. A GPS system is one step in this direction; your cell phone will soon provide the next leap forward.
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The Year the Olympics Went (Really) Hi-Tech
09 08 2008 Just try to guess which events these materials are used inâ€'and find out the answers from the article when you get totally stumped: Boron composite, syntactic foam (tiny, hollow spheres that are immune to changes in weather), Texalium (glass fiber with an aluminum coating), Vectran (used for air bags in NASA rovers).
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10 Ways Genetically Engineered Microbes Could Help Humanity
06 08 2008 Bacteria, yeast, and viruses are being used to fight cancer, produce renewable fuels, and do something even more valuable: make your clothing glow in the dark.
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The Newest Olympic Event: Scientific Discovery
06 08 2008 Everything you need to know about the science and technology of the games.
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The Truth About Traffic
31 07 2008 Who's controlling traffic? How? Tom Vanderbilt's new book explores the past, present, and future of the way we drive.
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The Science of Sniffing Out Liars
29 07 2008 An interrogation expert spills his secrets on next-generation polygraphs, neuroscientific mind-reading, torture as interrogation, and why humans are still the best lie detectors.
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When Computers Meld With Our Minds
25 07 2008 Futurist Vernor Vinge predicts that human brainpower and computers will merge to form a race of techno-geniuses, all in the not-too-distant future.
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Can You Spot the Chinese Nuclear Sub?
21 07 2008 High-resolution satellite imagery has exploded, allowing you to monitor villages in Darfur and examine classified nuclear sub propellers from your home computer. But are governments, not to mention private citizens, prepared for the level of access and scrutiny that's becoming the norm?
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Will Your iPod Turn on You?
08 07 2008 Jonathan Zittrain says closed systems are endangering the Internetâ€'and us.
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3 Robots That Move Just Like Animals
05 07 2008 A wall-crawling gecko, a paperclip-size fly, and an 8-tentacled jellyfish.
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Does Your House Have Robotic Vision (Yet)?
01 07 2008 Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary ideas go on public display.
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