AerospaceJuly 19, 2010
U.S. Navy Laser Weapon Shoots Down Drones in Test
During a recent test, a Navy laser using a tracking system from Raytheon shot down four unmanned aerial vehicles
Stories by Larry Greenemeier
Larry Greenemeier is the associate editor of technology for Scientific American, covering a variety of tech-related topics, including biotech, computers, military tech, nanotech and robots.
TechnologyJuly 15, 2010
Former Vice President Dick Cheney receives artificial heart part
TechnologyJuly 13, 2010
BP test could lead to an interim fix of 85-day leak at the Deepwater site
HealthJuly 13, 2010
A Change of Heart: Portable Power Source Lets Cardiac Patients Await a Permanent Donor at Home
A new artificial heart ventricular pump uses a power driver shrunken to 3 percent of its original weight, yet is able to generate enough energy to maintain optimum pumping capacity
EnvironmentJuly 12, 2010
What will it be like to own an electric car in 2011?
TechnologyJuly 9, 2010
Compassionate Coding: Students Compete in Microsoft Competition to Write Humanitarian Apps [Slide Show]
At Microsoft's Eighth Annual Imagine Cup finals this week, 400 students from the around the world presented software that, among other things, improves health care delivery, aids rescue workers and tackles traffic jams
The SciencesJuly 8, 2010
Firefly mating could reveal clues about how the brain is wired
EnvironmentJuly 6, 2010
Deflated expectations: It takes more than a gust to harness wind energy
EnvironmentJuly 2, 2010
Winds of Change Blow Renewable Energy Across Latin America [Slide Show]
In Colombia the indigenous Wayuu greet wind energy produced on their desert land with suspicion
EnvironmentJuly 1, 2010
U.S., U.K. military leaders address climate change's role as a global threat multiplier
EnvironmentJuly 1, 2010
Patent Still Pending
Green tech wilts under Patent Office scrutiny
TechnologyJune 30, 2010
What can a three-legged dog teach robots about resilience?
TechnologyJune 30, 2010
Student ROV operators show they are ready for deepwater missions
TechnologyJune 28, 2010
BP's relief well moment of truth on collision course with Gulf storm season
TechnologyJune 24, 2010
Submerging Supreme: ROV Competition Preps Students for Future Deepwater Engineering [Slide Show]
Sixty teams from around the world are in Hawaii competing in the ninth-annual underwater International ROV Competition
TechnologyJune 23, 2010
Reality Bytes: 3-D Data Demands Force CG Moviemakers to Get Creative with Computer Efficiency
In the making of Avatar, data-caching helped artists create highly detailed visual effects while saving time and storage space
EnvironmentJune 17, 2010
Congress Hammers BP CEO for Dodging Deepwater Spill Responsibility
TechnologyJune 15, 2010
Vision Quest: Retinal Implants Deliver the Promise of Sight to Damaged Eyes
Emerging technologies successfully stimulate retinas ravaged by retinitis pigmentosa, age-related macular degeneration and other diseases to give sufferers a new lease on light
TechnologyJune 9, 2010
Drill BP, Drill: By Boring Relief Wells Closer to the Oil Reservoir BP Hopes to Up Odds of Success
The downside: by going deeper it will take another two months. In the meantime the oil company scrambles for temporary fixes
EnvironmentJune 8, 2010
Gulf Spillover: Will BP's Deepwater Disaster Change the Oil Industry?
New York University sociologist Harvey Molotch compares the devastating 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill with Deepwater to see how far the U.S. government and the oil industry have--and have not--come
TechnologyJune 7, 2010
Apple takes the wraps off its new iPhone 4
TechnologyJune 4, 2010
Web site shows how a tumor grows in 3-D
TechnologyJune 4, 2010
Scientists Will Monitor Deepwater Horizon Methane Plumes for Gulf Oil Spill Answers
A team of researchers is hoping that the study of methane will help more accurately calculate the extent of the oil spill and the Gulf's ability to break down the slick
TechnologyJune 1, 2010
No relief in sight for BP's Deepwater oil containment operations as hurricane season arrives