Automobiles

The innovation industry faces an uncertain future, as long as the United States R&D Tax Credit remains a Congressional roller coaster ride.

Innovation and discovery as chronicled in past issues of Scientific American

A look at the machines that moved us a century ago

Humans produce around 360 pounds of poo over the course of a year - and the United Kingdom's "Bio Bus" is taking this poo on the road. This 40-seater, single-decker bus now runs the 20-mile stretch between Bath and Bristol Airport in southwest England.

822 Martian days after landing, NASA’s Curiosity rover, carrying the Mars Science Laboratory, continues on its extraordinary journey across landscapes that are both utterly alien, and remarkably familiar.

It seems you can't read an article about new mobility or the sharing economy without stumbling across Uber; the mobility service that sprung up in 2009 to only five years later become valued at more than Avis, Hertz, or Sony.

Fuel cell vehicles produce zero tailpipe emissions, but the entire hydrogen production stream needs to be low-carbon

Dutch cyclists can now pedal a path paved with solar panels. Larry Greenemeier reports

 

Will the most common molecule in the universe make for pollution-free cars?

Future technologies demand batteries that do more work but run cool, so a major new push has begun to remake them. Patent pioneer Esther Takeuchi explains how

Even as the world continues to spew more carbon pollution, change has begun—and is accelerating

The cause of the deadly crash of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo on Friday remains unknown, but the commercial spaceplane's feathered reentry system looks to have been involved.