Stories by Gregory Mone

A new approach allows “smart” machines to understand sounds other than speech

Few petroleum-powered cars have ever surpassed 400 miles per hour. Now a group of students plans to do it in an electric vehicle

Tiny, ubiquitous sensors will allow us to index the physical world the way the Web maps cyberspace

Your PC can accomplish any computing task you ask of it. Why isn't the same true for robots?

The military, short on linguists, is building smart phone–based devices to do the job

From solar power to powering our planet with garbage, Scientific American explores ideas that would improve our planet