Communications

The delays in replacements for monitoring missions may open up holes in climate data

Jamming company-issued GPS in vehicles not just a bad career move

Under test conditions, job seekers on video were rated as less likeable, and were less likely to be recommended for the job than were those who interviewed in person. Christopher Intagliata reports

Soon, nearly every device will be online. That is both a beautiful and a dangerous thing

Have smartphones in every pocket made memorization obsolete?

In an age where we can Google our way through most things, there are still some bastions of brainpower that win out over technology

Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina introduces the August 2013 issue of Scientific American

Mark Maybury holds forth on fending off cyber attackers, keeping humans in the loop during drone missions and outfitting pilots with computerized Band-Aids

The tragic incident has brought a decades-old Spanish success story crashing to a halt

Oak Ridge National Laboratory engineers are readying BitPredator, a tool for tracing the source of P2P files, so it can help law enforcement crack down on child abusers

Move represents an escalation in surveillance techniques that has not previously been disclosed

Keys are used to shield users' private Web communications from government eavesdropping