The world’s undersea network of transoceanic cables serves as the cardiovascular system for data coursing through the Internet and other communications, but not without a lot of human help...
It's been a long time coming, but this week NASA's Mars Opportunity rover completed the first-ever Martian marathon. After landing on the Red Planet in January 2004 on a mission originally planned to only last 90 days, Opportunity has instead endured for more than a decade, and has taken eleven years and two months to [...]..
A scientist known as the "Captain of Moonshots" talked at SXSW this week about Google X's biggest flops and lessons learned
What’s called ResearchKit enables scientists to more easily write mobile apps that take advantage of iPhone sensors to study asthma, Parkinson’s and other diseases. Larry Greenemeier reports
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In this excerpt from his new book, The Innovators, Walter Isaacson explores the origin of new technologies and the nature of new ideas
Brainlike computer chips, smart pharmacology and other advances offer great promise but also raise serious questions that we must deal with now
A quest to unravel the architecture of the double helix is revealing the subtle genetic orchestration of life
If you’re like me, you’ve always wanted Ernst Haeckel in your house. Well, not literally Ernst Haeckel, the great 19th century biologist (although that would be cool, in alive form)...
Each year it seems a little less like science fiction to ask your phone for advice about local chinese food or trust your car to get you to a new location.
As messaging services eat into e-mail, what are we losing—and gaining?
Shortly after 7:30 am Eastern time this morning, a seven-year space voyage at last reached its final destination: NASA's Dawn mission entered orbit around Ceres, a small, icy world orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter...
I'm not a scold about scientific accuracy in film. As long as a movie is not built on a fundamentally stupid premise (“Lucy,” the Scarlet Johansson vehicle predicated on the false notion that humans use only 10 percent of their brains, comes to mind), I am happy to let myself be entertained...
From autonomous drones to emergent AI to digital genomes, this year’s list from the World Economic Forum offers its latest glimpse of our fast-approaching technological future
What innovations are leaping out of the labs to shape the world in powerful ways? Identifying those compelling innovations is the charge of the Meta-Council on Emerging Technologies, one of the World Economic Forum’s network of expert communities that form the Global Agenda Councils, which today released its Top 10 List of Emerging Technologies for [...]..
American tech companies, ensnared by the NSA controversy, must act boldly to restore the world's confidence
Nimble bots are going head-to-head for a $2-million DARPA prize
With new rapid-fire ways to communicate, e-mails are on the decline. But they might not be headed for extinction
Analyze real cancer data by playing a mobile game
The last place anyone expects to find a designer is in a hospital, clinic or operating room, but those are exactly the spaces where I embed myself.
Digital security specialist Bruce Schneier’s latest book examines the repercussions of—and the appropriate responses to—ubiquitous corporate and governmental harvesting of personal data...
