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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

News Scans

In Brief

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

9/11: 10 Years Later

The attacks on September 11, 2001, profoundly influenced the direction of science and technology. What's been learned from those events, and how they have shaped our lives since

Post-9/11 Technology Brings Exoskeletons, Laser Cannons to 21st-Century U.S. Military [Slide Show]

The U.S. Department of Defense keeps seeking and developing advantages for today's unconventional warfare, ranging from Iron Man-like body suits to smart grenade launchers

Post-9/11 Technology Brings Exoskeletons, Laser Cannons to 21st-Century U.S. Military [Slide Show]

The U.S. Department of Defense keeps seeking and developing advantages for today's unconventional warfare, ranging from Iron Man-like body suits to smart grenade launchers

Graphene Electronics Could Make Internet Way Zippier

Nobel laureates added metallic nanostructures to graphene to vastly boost its photodetector qualities. Larry Greenemeier reports

Calendar: MIND events in September and October

Museum exhibits, conferences and events relating to the brain

New Glasses-Free 3-D Approach Could Work on Thin, Flexible Displays

Korean researchers envision 3-D on OLED displays for smartphones and other gadgets

Street Talk: What Innovations Would Make Cities More Livable?

What innovation—technological or otherwise—would make any city a substantially more livable place? We put this question to urban leaders and our own readers. Here's what they said...

Patent Watch

Haptic computer interface

System Analysis and Programming

The process of stating a problem in a language that is acceptable to a computer is primarily intuitive rather than formal. A specific example of the process is given