Verizon Wireless confirmed Tuesday one of the worst-kept secrets in the tech industry–as of February 10, the company is adding Apple's iPhone 4 to the lineup of smart phones supported by the Verizon network...
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)...
LAS VEGAS—Chief executives from some of the world's largest companies laid out the keys to developing the next generation of innovative technology during Friday's opening panel discussion here at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show...
LAS VEGAS—It's easy to poke fun at people so absorbed in their smart phones, tablets and other mobile technology that they're oblivious to anything outside the virtual world (stop signs, theater etiquette, live sporting events, children etc.)...
An important indicator species in the fossil record, ammonites played a major ecological role in their day, so figuring out what--and how--they ate should lead to a bounty of new knowledge about the ancient ocean...
Encouraged by the successes of the Xbox Kinect sensor and Windows 7, Microsoft's CEO assures the consumer electronics crowd that Windows's future is bright
Privacy concerns are overblown, even in our always connected world
UK Met Office is being held back by a lack of computing power, says its chief scientist Julia Slingo.
While we fret, some college students are busy creating the future
Our picks for the top 10 science stories of the year were published this week, but who cares what editors at Scientific American think? Below is a list of the stories and features that visitors to our Web site clicked on the most this year...
The moving bits in the proposed data-storage scheme do not stop and start instantaneously, but their motion is easy to quantify
Physicists give TRON filmmakers the lowdown on how to digitize a person and transport him into a computer game
Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina introduces the January 2011 issue of Scientific American
In this chapter from his new e-book, journalist Carl Zimmer tries to reconcile the visions of techno-immortalists with the exigencies imposed by real-world biology
The controversial measure will let broadband providers prioritize Internet content, but detractors say the government is fixing something that is not broken
Linguists have found a new application for ultrasound—decoding dying languages
Projecting the spin of an electron onto an atomic nucleus allows for much longer storage and recall of spin-encoded information
Human #1: "Hello, nice weather today, isn't it?" Human #2: "Ummm...actually not. It's a gray, cold, windy, rainy kind of day!" Many a joke depends on confusion about the meaning of language, as in the example above...
Four tips to improve how your computer understands you
