TechnologyMay 26, 2011
Projects in Profusion: A Skeptical Look at 3 Wild Fusion-Energy Schemes
Venture capitalists and funding agencies aim to get some bang for their alternative fusion bucks, but a lot of unknowns remain
Stories by Graham P. Collins
EnvironmentMay 1, 2011
7 Radical Energy Solutions
The failure rate may be 90 percent, but if any of these exotic technologies succeeds, it could significantly improve energy security and efficiency
TechnologyApril 1, 2011
Solving the Cocktail Party Problem
Computers have great trouble deciphering voices that are speaking simultaneously. That may soon change
EngineeringAugust 11, 2010
Ultrafast Electron Microscopy
CognitionApril 22, 2010
Blindsight: Seeing without Knowing It
The SciencesSeptember 1, 2009
Origins: The Start of Everything
Where do rainbows come from? What about flying cars, love and LSD?
The SciencesSeptember 1, 2009
Tectonic Plates
The long, strange trip of continental drift
The SciencesSeptember 1, 2009
Coriolis Effect
The earth's spin influences hurricanes but not toilets
August 12, 2009
Stephen Hawking receives Presidential Medal of Freedom
The SciencesAugust 1, 2009
An Iron Key to High-Temperature Superconductivity?
The discovery that compounds known as iron pnictides can superconduct at 50 degrees above absolute zero has reignited physicists' quest for better high-temperature superconductors, and may offer clues to unlocking a 20-year mystery
The SciencesMarch 21, 2009
Seeing beyond the diffraction limit in 3-D
The SciencesMarch 19, 2009
Signs of a supersolid at the March APS meeting
The SciencesMarch 1, 2009
Within Any Possible Universe, No Intellect Can Ever Know It All
A mathematical theory places limits on how much a physical entity can know about the past, present or future
The SciencesDecember 31, 2008
E8: Exceptional Complexity
The SciencesDecember 31, 2008
Did Garrett Lisi Have a Wipeout?
A hyped theory of everything sinks from sight
The SciencesMay 1, 2008
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, 1917-2008
EnvironmentApril 18, 2008
Yes, the earth moved for me...
The SciencesApril 1, 2008
Wipeout?
A hyped theory of everything sinks from sight
The SciencesMarch 21, 2008
Remembering Sir Arthur C. Clarke, 1917-2008
Graham Collins reflects on meeting the famous author in New York City
The SciencesMarch 20, 2008
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, 1917–2008
The SciencesFebruary 1, 2008
Large Hadron Collider: The Discovery Machine
A global collaboration of scientists is preparing to start up the greatest particle physics experiment in history
The SciencesJanuary 1, 2008
Material World
Scientists take inspiration from nature and instill novel magnetic properties
TechnologyJanuary 1, 2008
Light Manipulation
New technologies exercise extraordinary control over light
The SciencesNovember 19, 2007
The Many Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics