Star Power
How the central figure of our solar system could kill us—or erase our iPods.
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The famed biologist seeks to save a park in Mozambique—and to save humanity.
An inside look at the unsettling perils of cloud computing—and how to avoid them
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Streetlights are about to change the color of night—for the better.
As advances in brain science erode traditional notions of blame and free will, a leading neuroscientist is charting a new way forward for law and order.
Tokyo is more likely, says a scientist whose work on aftershocks may revolutionize quake forecasting.
Powered by social networking, file sharing, and e-mail, a new cottage industry is bringing niche drugs to market.
Fifty years after his landmark speech calling television a “vast wasteland,” the former chairman of the FCC lays out a media vision for the next half century.
As the world's mega-cities expand to the bursting point, building up rather than out becomes ever more important. But history shows that skyscrapers do more than provide space: they connect people, foster creativity— and accelerate social progress.
Artificial intelligence has advanced to the point that computers can very nearly pass for human. What are they telling us about ourselves? To find out, the author enters himself in a famous battle of wits pitting man against computer.
To environmentalists, clean coal is an insulting oxymoron. But because coal so dominates the world economy, any meaningful effort to arrest climate change will require using dirty coal in more-sustainable ways. Quiet collaboration between American and Chinese businesses and scientists is pointing the way.
The physicist Freeman Dyson has reshaped thinking in fields from math to astrophysics to medicine. Yet he is also one of the world's foremost global-warming skeptics. How could someone as smart as Dyson be so wrong about the environment? A cautionary tale about science and faith.
Online matchmaking is getting better at telling us whom we ought to like—and that's not good.
These Artists Are Mapping the Earth ... With Facial Recognition Software
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Just 27% of BA's Have Jobs Related to Their Major? Don't Believe the Fed's New Stat
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Daft Punk's Random Access Memories Is a Lovely Sounding Retirement Record
2 SCOTUS Judges in 1971: Espionage Act Doesn't Apply to the Press
If a Senate Candidate Chops a Watermelon with an Ax in the Woods, Does It Make a Sound?
This Is the Biggest Mistake 60-Year Old Men Make About the Economy
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