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X-Ray Vision: NASA's NuSTAR Telescope

Thanks to amazing nested mirrors, NASA's NuSTAR telescope is set to reveal hidden phenomena in the cosmos

"Do not track" options in store for Chrome, IE and Firefox

Google, Microsoft and Mozilla are moving quickly to respond to calls from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and consumer watchdogs for a "do not track" option that allows Web surfers to protect their private information from being exploited by advertising networks...

Preteens and Glowing Screens

Excessive television or computer use may indicate psychological problems

Russian money revives Plastic Logic

Deal gives nascent field of plastic electronics a shot in the arm.

Entangled En Masse: Physicists Crank Out Billions of Entangled Nucleus-Electron Pairs on Demand

Setting ensembles of solid-state particles into entangled pairs holds promise for quantum computation

Can ecological models explain global financial markets--and make them more stable?

How Might Steve Jobs's Liver Transplant Be Affecting His Health?

A University of Chicago Medical Center transplantation expert explains the ins and outs of liver transplant complications and Jobs's rare form of pancreatic cancer

Woman science bloggers discuss pros and cons of online exposure

Too Much and Not Enough

Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina introduces the February 2011 issue of Scientific American

Science bloggers gather to wrestle down myths about research and themselves

Rise of the Robo Scientists

Machines can devise a hypothesis, carry out experiments to test it, and assess results--without human intervention

Gizmos Galore: The 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Pictures [Slide Show]

Here is a bit of what an estimated 140,000 attendees saw at last week's CES

Gizmos Galore: The 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Pictures [Slide Show]

Here is a bit of what an estimated 140,000 attendees saw at last week's CES

Entangling Appliance: Solid-State Memories Pave the Way to Practical Quantum Communication

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

Wired Wheels: Taking a Spin in the Future of Urban Transportation

General Motors offers a taste of its Electric Networked Vehicle at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show

Verizon gets its iPhone, but 4G will have to wait

Consumer Electronics in 2011: Connecting Every Aspect of Our Lives

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)...

Cisco, GE and Xerox CEOs: 4 challenges facing U.S. industry, and how to fix them

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...

Verizon CEO: Stay online, we'll just build a faster network

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.)...

Jaws of Life: High-Power Scans Reveal Teeth, Food of Ammonites

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...