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Heal Thyself: Internet-Based Self-Help for Social Phobia Shows Promise

Something in the Way You Move: Cameras May Soon Recognize Criminals by Their Gait [Video]

Advances in motion-capture technology hold enormous potential as a tool for analyzing surveillance video for possible security threats

Big Progress on the Little Things

Let's take a step back and praise three unsung trends in consumer electronics

Testing for Consciousness in Machines

Asking people and computers what's wrong with manipulated photos may tell if there is "anybody home"

Use It Better: The Worst Trends in Tech

Consumer technology doesn't always get better, faster and cheaper. Here are four bad moves that prove the future isn't always bright

Sound Sends Electron to Specific Location

Sound impelled an electron in an energy well to a second energy well and back. It's a step toward controlled single-electron transfer for use in quantum computer electronic circuits. Sophie Bushwick reports...

Readers Respond to "I Stick to the Science" and Other Articles

Letters to the editor from the June 2011 issue of Scientific American

How Math Whizzes Helped Sink the Economy [Book Excerpt]

Scott Patterson's book The Quants profiles the quantitative-minded investors who helped inflate the hedge fund bubble

3-D Printing Gets Ahead: How Does a Printer Make a Fossil?

3-D printers can create models and prototypes, replicas of your head, even living tissues—and at Lehman College, they reproduce and reconstruct ancient fossils

3-D Printing Gets Ahead: How Does a Printer Make a Fossil?

3-D printers can create models and prototypes, replicas of your head, even living tissues—and at Lehman College, they reproduce and reconstruct ancient fossils

3-D Printing Gets Ahead: Anthropologists Use Printing Technology to Model Fossils

At Lehman College, 3-D printing creates fossil replicas, extra-large versions, reconstructions and even primate skulls that never entered the fossil record

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Star-Crossed: Milky Way's Spiral Shape May Result from a Smaller Galaxy's Impact

Encounters with the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy could have had huge effects on the structure of the Milky Way

Safe Air Landings Have Useful Black Box Info

Two thousand black box parameters from planes that do not crash can be harvested via computer analysis to further increase airline safety. Cynthia Graber reports

After Shock and Awe

All the gear $1.3 trillion can buy

Direct Response: 5 Pre-9/11 Security Breaches and the Safety Measures That Followed

Long before 2001 authorities were scrambling to respond to deadly attacks of all kinds

The Apple of Its Eye: Security and Surveillance Pervades Post-9/11 New York City [Video]

The Lower Manhattan Security Initiative has covered much of the city with a network of surveillance cameras and other equipment, to the dismay of privacy advocates

September 2011 Briefing Memo

Commemorative Calculus: How an Algorithm Helped Arrange the Names on the 9/11 Memorial

Underlying the memorial's seemingly random layout of nearly 3,000 names is a complex and deeply human order

Password Prevented, by David Pogue

In a world drowning in absurd security requirements, it's nice to see a few islands of reason