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Can Chemistry Offer a Better Lithium Ion Battery?

Research presented at the American Chemical Society's annual meeting highlight improved components, better performance and easier production

Major Fuel and Emissions Savings Unlikely in Automobiles

The U.S. National Academy of Sciences suggests it will be "extremely challenging" to cut emissions and oil use by 80 percent by 2050

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Will Alternative-Energy Growth Tank During New Fossil-Fuel Glut? [Slide Show]

Abundant natural gas may undermine alternative energy sources, whether nuclear or electro-fuels

Will Alternative-Energy Growth Tank During New Fossil-Fuel Glut? [Slide Show]

Abundant natural gas may undermine alternative energy sources, whether nuclear or electro-fuels

How Self-Healing Microchips Recover

Caltech engineers have constructed a new kind of microchip that can learn to heal its own information pathways

Still in Search of the Energy Unknown: A Q&A with ARPA-E Director Cheryl Martin

Amid rising oil and gas production, can the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy get the U.S. to develop alternative, cleaner energy solutions?

Medical Advice before Taking a Spaceflight

Tesla Electric Car Sales Growing but So Are Financial Losses

Can the innovative car company survive long enough to profit from a growing market for electric vehicles?

Buckeye Bullet Electric Vehicle Breaks 300 MPH [Video]

Watch the previous iteration of the Buckeye Bullet break 320 miles per hour

Aviation in 1913: Images from Scientific American's Archives [Slide Show]

A look at the state of flight in 1913 from the archives of Scientific American

Aviation in 1913: Images from Scientific American's Archives [Slide Show]

A look at the state of flight in 1913 from the archives of Scientific American

The News on Aviation from 1913

Innovation and discovery as chronicled in past issues of Scientific American

The Buckeye Bullet Electric Vehicle Will Go 400 MPH

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

Grand Central Terminal: The Centenary. A Look Back in Scientific American's Archives [Slide Show]

The new railroad terminal was heralded as the "Gateway to America's Greatest City" when it opened on February 1, 1913

Grand Central Terminal: The Centenary. A Look Back in Scientific American's Archives [Slide Show]

The new railroad terminal was heralded as the "Gateway to America's Greatest City" when it opened on February 1, 1913

Natural Gas Vehicles Could Ease Energy Crisis

Fueling cars and trucks with natural gas may help reduce oil dependence even more than electric cars

Google Asks FCC for Wireless Spectrum, but Don't Get Too Excited

Google has petitioned the Federal Communications Commission for permission to apparently conduct testing on, well, something

Car Crashes More Deadly for Obese Drivers

Morbidly obese individuals—those with a BMI of 40 and above—were 80 percent more likely to die in a car crash, according to a study published in Emergency Medical Journal

The Future: A History of Prediction from the Archives of Scientific American

Futurology has always bounced around between common sense, nonsense and a healthy dose of wishful thinking