DURHAM, North Carolina—TV pundit and Washington Post columnist George Will has a history of misrepresenting climate science—and it's bloggers who typically make sure the record is set straight on such points.For instance, a 2009 Will editorial in the Washington Post asserting, among other things, that the extent of global sea ice today is the same as it was in 1979 drew particularly loud howls...
Machines can devise a hypothesis, carry out experiments to test it, and assess results--without human intervention
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
Two groups of physicists have managed to shift the quantum entanglement between two photons onto an entangled state between one photon and a quantum memory
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)...
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
