Leave It to Beavers
Can they help us adapt to climate change?
Can they help us adapt to climate change?
New “social discovery” apps try to engineer chance encounters. Could they spoil true serendipity?
Will statistical analytics make for healthier, happier babies—or more-anxious adults?
Social media—from Facebook to Twitter—have made us more densely networked than ever. Yet for all this connectivity, new research suggests that we have never been lonelier (or more narcissistic)—and that this loneliness is making us mentally and physically ill. A report on what the…
One of America’s great machines comes back to life.
What we don’t know about the sun may kill us—or erase our iPods.
In the wake of a horrific crash, should air racing be allowed to continue?
A new camera captures hundreds of images and lets you choose your own reality
A Silicon Valley investor backs a new breed of college dropouts
Is lifelike synthetic speech finally within reach?
At 82, the famed biologist E. O. Wilson arrived in Mozambique last summer with a modest agenda—save a ravaged park; identify its many undiscovered species; create a virtual textbook that will revolutionize the teaching of biology. Wilson’s newest theory is more ambitious still. It could…
A scientist suspicious of manipulated climate-change data presents his own evidence for man-made global warming
The tech giant redefined innovation by thinking further ahead than he needed to, long before he had to
As email, documents, and almost every aspect of our professional and personal lives moves onto the “cloud”—remote servers we rely on to store, guard, and make available all of our data whenever and from wherever we want them, all the time and into eternity—a brush with…
Second Life’s creator wants to rewire how businesses run.
What happens when you gather the world’s most imaginative minds under one roof?
Why our gadgets can’t wear out fast enough
Streetlights are about to change the color of night—for the better.
Got an army you need to hide? With more than a million soldiers in a dozen countries wearing his camouflage patterns, Guy Cramer is now hoping to change how the Pentagon dresses. Inside the evolving science of concealment.
Advances in brain science are calling into question the volition behind many criminal acts. A leading neuroscientist describes how the foundations of our criminal-justice system are beginning to crumble, and proposes a new way forward for law and order.
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News Corp. Braces for 500 Phone-Hacking Legal Claims
What's Tanking the Economy
Bloomberg: 'Just Before You Die, Remember You Got Three Extra Years'
Rethinking the Economics of Traffic Congestion
America's Economic Rebound
How to Handle a City of Tourists
The Speed of Light 
Alter Ego 
Synthetic Biology 
