Communications

See which science blog posts were most-read on Nature's Web site this year

In a study of user behavior, Facebook determined that about 70 percent of people about to post an item engage in some form of self-editing or self-censorship. Larry Greenemeier reports.

A new video simulation helps viewers experience the moments when the image was captured and what it was like inside the spacecraft at the time

A carbon threshold breached, commitments to brain science made, mystery neutrinos found and human evolution revised—these and other events highlight the year in science and technology as picked by the editors of Scientific American

A computer's microphone and speakers can covertly send and receive data

The base-2 system helped to simplify calculations centuries before Europeans discovered it

China and other emerging economies have overtaken Western nations in dumping old electronic goods, from TVs to cellphones, and will lead a projected 33 percent surge in the amount of waste from 2012 to 2017, a U.N.-backed alliance said on Sunday.

The year brought numerous revelations about government surveillance on ordinary citizens. Do we care? Larry Greenemeier reports.

Just because your smartphone can bring up your position on a map does not mean that a call to 911 automatically shows responders where you are. Larry Greenemeier reports.

A new patent for this wearable technology could aid someone who is blind, deaf or needs to be guided through an alien environment

The material, called stanene, could in theory mimic the properties of a room-temperature superconductor

Computing technique reconstructs 3D images from single photons reflected from dimly lit object