
Anecdotes from the Archive: Map-making on wheels
Have you ever found yourself stumbling upon some great new restaurant or hiking path and, having no idea how you got there, realize its impossible to get back a second time?
Have you ever found yourself stumbling upon some great new restaurant or hiking path and, having no idea how you got there, realize its impossible to get back a second time?
Although waiting lists for EVs rolling off the factory floors are growing, the president's State of the Union target will be impossible without help from the federal government
Letters to the editor from the November 2010 issue of Scientific American
A documentary about Ray Kurzweil's belief that technology could conquer mortality reveals the futurist's emotional life but fails to question his bold claims
Studies have shown that automated systems result in major decreases in toll plaza delays and air pollution. But does taking the inconvenience out of paying tolls encourage more driving?
ARPA-e and others aim to fund development of a battery that relies on lithium and air
Video games, smart phones, apps, e-readers--people are fitting digital gadgets into all aspects of their lives
Can the U.S. grow a domestic electric car industry?
In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, a pioneering neuroscientist argues that brain-wave control of machines will allow the paralyzed to walk, and portends a future of mind melds and thought downloads...
Never mind electric-vehicle range anxiety, how will power utilities and home systems handle the growing load of a burgeoning fleet of electric cars? A maker of home battery-charging stations partners with networking giant Cisco Systems to enable energy monitoring and management from a single touch-screen device...
Here is a bit of what an estimated 140,000 attendees saw at last week's CES
Here is a bit of what an estimated 140,000 attendees saw at last week's CES
The infrastructure challenges include installing tens of millions of charging stations, strengthening the grid to handle electricity demand by plug-ins, and changing utility regulations to promote nighttime recharging...
Scientific American editor Michael Moyer talks about the sneak preview he caught of IBM's Watson Jeopardy! -playing computer. And ScientificAmerican.com 's Larry Greenemeier spoke with Ford's Brad Probert about the new all-electric Focus at the Consumer Electronics Show last week in Las Vegas...
General Motors offers a taste of its Electric Networked Vehicle at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show
Gadgets of all shapes and sizes are emerging that provide convenient, full-function access to communications, GPS, social networking and other information from wherever we are. Scientific American takes a look at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show (CES)...
As the Chevy Volt, the first extended-range electric car, rolls into showrooms, its chief engineer talks about what's under the hood and why it's not a hybrid
It's not just driving our cars that harms the environment, parking them also poses a problem. David Biello reports
China could have one billion cars by mid-century--but what kind of vehicles will they be?
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