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Novel Experiment Prepares to Join Dark Energy Hunt

By retrofitting a Texas telescope with a low-cost, modular instrument, researchers hope to find clues to what is driving the accelerating expansion of our universe

Roman ingots to shield particle detector

Lead from ancient shipwreck will line Italian neutrino experiment.

Warm Water Flowed Through Supercomputers to Cool Down Their Heat

IBM experiments with a liquid cooling system that moves heat away from sensitive computer components without chillers, cutting energy costs in half

Quantum Effects Exploited to Generate Random Numbers

Measuring the internal states of entangled ions yields binary digits that demonstrably stem from the indeterminacy of quantum mechanics, but the process is laborious

Pentagon Turns to 'Softer' Sciences

US defence research to focus more on biology, cybersecurity and social sciences to help win conflicts.

New online map can forecast the location and intensity of global disease outbreaks

The Future of Your Medical Data

How health data is becoming better connected, a la Facebook, changing the way patients, doctors and institutions interact

Bountiful bots: National Robotics Week arrives this weekend

"First fiction reading off an iPad" kicks off enthusiastic discussion of e-books

Braille Displays Promise to Deliver the Web to the Blind

North Carolina State University researchers take the first steps toward making an affordable and more dynamic Braille display

Readers Respond on "Expanding the Limits of Life"

Letters to the editor from the December 2009 issue of Scientific American

Forget e-reading, the iPad is more likely to be used for fun and (3-D) games

Atomic Clocks Use Quantum Timekeeping

Entanglement could make state-of-the art clocks more precise.

Look Sharp: Video Search Engine Helps Monitor Criminals, Employees and Consumers Alike

3VR wants to be the Google of surveillance footage, giving businesses the ability to search video for specific people, places and things

Math behind Internet encryption wins top award

Abel prize awarded to number theorist John Tate.

Thinking Outside of the Toy Box: 4 Children's Gizmos That Inspired Scientific Breakthroughs [Slide Show]

Brilliant minds reach back to childhood to help them develop tiny transistors, study particle separation, make microfluidics devices, and fight cancer

Thinking Outside of the Toy Box: 4 Children's Gizmos That Inspired Scientific Breakthroughs [Slide Show]

Brilliant minds reach back to childhood to help them develop tiny transistors, study particle separation, make microfluidics devices, and fight cancer

Expert Systems Fight Poverty

Appropriate information and communications technologies, combined with community involvement, can save lives

The Rise of Instant Wireless Networks

Wireless networks that do not depend on a fixed infrastructure will allow for ubiquitous connectivity regardless of the situation

The Science Talk Quiz: "Totally Bogus"

Here are four science stories, but only three are true. See if you know which story is TOTALLY BOGUS