TechnologyApril 9, 2010
Bountiful bots: National Robotics Week arrives this weekend
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.
Space & PhysicsApril 9, 2010
Moon Moolah: Auction Bidders Can Buy Memoirs of NASA's Apollo Program [Slide Show]
Here are 10 items from the dozens of space race artifacts, including a piece of an actual manned lunar spacecraft, that will be auctioned off April 13
TechnologyApril 7, 2010
Coastal California City Turns to Desalination to Quench Its Thirst
Sand City's new reverse-osmosis desalination facility aims to keep costs down and drinking water production up with the help of energy-recovery technology
HealthApril 5, 2010
Acoustic lens generates bullets of sound that may lead to sonic scalpels
Space & PhysicsApril 5, 2010
Shuttle Discovery en route to International Space Station
TechnologyApril 5, 2010
Braille Displays Promise to Deliver the Web to the Blind
North Carolina State University researchers take the first steps toward making an affordable and more dynamic Braille display
TechnologyApril 1, 2010
Forget e-reading, the iPad is more likely to be used for fun and (3-D) games
TechnologyMarch 31, 2010
Lithium ion battery sales set to rev up thanks mainly to e-bikes and scooters
TechnologyMarch 31, 2010
This Really Won't Hurt a Bit: Wireless Sensor Promises Diabetics Noninvasive Blood Sugar Readings
Echo Therapeutics is testing a biosensor system that reads glucose levels without breaking the skin
TechnologyMarch 30, 2010
Hear that? All is quiet as Ford's Transit Connect Electric hits New York City's streets
TechnologyMarch 30, 2010
Look Sharp: Video Search Engine Helps Monitor Criminals, Employees and Consumers Alike
3VR wants to be the Google of surveillance footage, giving businesses the ability to search video for specific people, places and things
TechnologyMarch 24, 2010
Metro Motivation: GM Envisions Networked Mini Cars for City Streets
The automaker introduces its Electric Networked Vehicle prototypes, one third the size of a typical car, as a way to reduce big urban auto emissions and traffic congestion
TechnologyMarch 22, 2010
Light Improvement: Could Quantum Dots Boost the Quality of Cell Phone Pix?
Start-up InVisage says its QuantumFilm helps camera pixel sensors absorb nearly four times as many photons as current sensors do
The SciencesMarch 19, 2010
Graphene used to make a hydrogen molecule "parking garage"
TechnologyMarch 18, 2010
Researchers create metal with a memory
EngineeringMarch 17, 2010
Finding the Top Bot: High School Students (and Their Robots) Take the Prize at Tech Challenge [Slide Show]
Budding engineers put their bots head to head at this year's regional FIRST Tech Challenge championship in New York City
TechnologyMarch 16, 2010
Going with the Flow: Hydrokinetic Power Developers Face Technical and Regulatory Hurdles in Bid to Tap Tides
Several organizations are hard at work developing and testing tidal-harnessing technology as a source of green energy
TechnologyMarch 12, 2010
Software behaving badly: Machine learning could resolve issues raised by multicore processors
TechnologyMarch 10, 2010
FCC reveals additional details of its plan to blanket the country with broadband
TechnologyMarch 9, 2010
PET project: Using organic catalysts to make more biodegradable plastics
TechnologyMarch 8, 2010
Seeing the Little Picture: Novel Nanocoating Gives Atomic Force Microscope Users a Better Look at Individual Molecules
The coating material, called NanoCone, when added to the microscope's probe lets researchers lift and separate molecules, promising greater precision for disease diagnosis
TechnologyMarch 5, 2010
Magic Fingers: Digging Into Multi-Touch Technology with Both Hands
Perceptive Pixel chief scientist Jefferson Han has big plans for changing how people use computers
TechnologyMarch 5, 2010
Want TV in 3-D? Then You'll Still Have to Wear Silly Glasses--At Least for Another Decade
As major TV manufacturers prepare to role out stereoscopic 3-D displays that require glasses, researchers are experimenting with ways of delivering 3-D to the naked eye
TechnologyMarch 3, 2010
Next-Gen Scientists Honored for Evolving Medicine and Renewables [Slide Show]
Artificial antibodies, 3-D genome imaging, inexpensive prosthetics, a liner for hydrogen-car fuel tanks--winning ideas from the Lemelson-M.I.T. awards for students