Stories by Larry Greenemeier

Compound Conundrum: Chemists Turn to Modified Microscope to Fathom Deep-Sea Mystery Molecule

When University of Aberdeen researchers encountered an undecipherable molecule from the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench, IBM's fine-tuned atomic force microscope helped them complete the puzzle

9 automotive X PRIZE competitors move on to the final round

How Will the Smart Grid Handle Heat Waves?

Pretty well, once the technology to automatically respond to peak demand and store renewable energy matures

Radar holography could offer a safer, more effective approach to finding land mines

The process of removing land mines from a current or former war zone is a dangerous, time-intensive and expensive proposition thanks largely to antiquated technology and methods of detection and extraction.

U.S. Navy Laser Weapon Shoots Down Drones in Test [Video]

During a recent test, a Navy laser using a tracking system from Raytheon shot down four unmanned aerial vehicles

Former Vice President Dick Cheney receives artificial heart part

BP test could lead to an interim fix of 85-day leak at the Deepwater site

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

What will it be like to own an electric car in 2011?

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

Firefly mating could reveal clues about how the brain is wired

Deflated expectations: It takes more than a gust to harness wind energy

The presence of strong gusts and flat, wide-open spaces would appear tailor-made for the production of electricity from wind energy, yet the reality of harvesting renewable energy is never that straightforward.

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

U.S., U.K. military leaders address climate change's role as a global threat multiplier

Robot Test Drive

Your Web-enabled mechanical stunt double is ready

What can a three-legged dog teach robots about resilience?

Student ROV operators show they are ready for deepwater missions

BP's relief well moment of truth on collision course with Gulf storm season

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

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