Communications

Plastics and pagers feature heavily in these awesome 1960s films about life in this century

The future of technology was relatively easy to foresee. Human nature wasn’t

“BioBlitz” hardware developers test new environmental tools above, on and under a tidal lagoon

The virtual currency’s once largest exchange, Mt. Gox, has abruptly shut down. A bitcoin expert explains the potential impact

Conference proceedings were removed from subscription databases after a scientist revealed they were computer-generated

Before Jan Koum sold his company, WhatsApp, to Facebook for a mind-numbing $19 billion, he had a Post-It note affixed to his deskput there by WhatsApp co-founder Brian Actonthat set out the companys philosophy: No ads, no games, no gimmicks.

Over the course of four weeks students developed prototypes of devices meant to bridge the gap between human and machine

For the first time, an X PRIZE is offering award money to participants during a competition

Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy, one of the U.K.'s leading popularizers, takes over a post held by Richard Dawkins and describes the importance of storytelling and crossing scientific language barriers

The principles underlying the U.S. approach to government-funded research and development remain solid—but the world has changed

Scholarly articles in digital forms overtook printed ones, but academics spent less time on each.