Stories by Larry Greenemeier

In addition to reacting to news as it breaks, we work to anticipate what will happen. Here we contemplate 12 possibilities and rate their likelihood of happening by 2050

What happens when robots start calling the shots?

Intellectual Ventures builds computer simulations to better understand how malaria spreads and how it responds to eradication efforts

Former Hughes Aircraft Company researchers Daniel Nieuwsma and Bob Byren recall the birth of the laser and the past three decades they have spent taking the technology in new directions

Italian racing team takes victory lap at this year's Dartmouth Formula Hybrid International Competition

The company will inject "junk" into the well to clog the flow of oil and eventually cement over the site

Crews from the Guard, BP and local fishermen have been hard at work in the Gulf of Mexico since the oil rig exploded and sank in April

Remotely operated subs have met with both success and failure in stanching the flow of crude, and the oil industry may need to rely on completely autonomous vehicles

Green laser light can trigger collagen fibers to link up in nerves and other damaged tissue

The USPTO has fast-tracked only one third of requests made to its Green Technology Pilot Program

The FCC calls for the opening of 500 megahertz of bandwidth for mobile, fixed and unlicensed broadband use over the next 10 years

A team of Duke University researchers side with a recent court ruling against gene patents

IBM experiments with a liquid cooling system that moves heat away from sensitive computer components without chillers, cutting energy costs in half