Satellite images show tsunami-ravaged Japan coast
When devastation extends as far as the human eye can see, digital eyes in the sky can provide essential information for emergency response efforts.
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Seconds Before the Big One
Earthquake detection systems can sound the alarm in the moments before a big tremor strikes—time enough to save lives
Readers Respond to "Mind Over Magic?"--and More...
Letters to the editor about the November/December 2010 issue of Scientific American MIND Readers Respond to "Mind Over Magic?"—and More...
Can You See Me Now?
A camera with a unique, spherical lens may bring single-shot gigapixel cameras closer to reality
From iPhones to SciPhones
Scientists are developing iPhone apps that aid in research and that appeal to "citizen scientists" as well
Where Are the Talking Robots?
Teaching a machine to speak has been a dream for decades. First, we have to figure out how we know what we know about language
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2011 Lemelson-M.I.T. Student Inventor Prizes Offer a Glimpse of the Future in Medical and Security Screening Tech [Slide Show]
Automatic gear shifting for safer and more efficient wheelchairs; a technique for harnessing terahertz spectroscopy; "humanized" lab mice; and cheaper, more accurate malaria testing--meet this year's crop of Lemelson-M.I.T...
2011 Lemelson-M.I.T. Student Inventor Prizes Offer a Glimpse of the Future in Medical and Security Screening Tech [Slide Show]
Automatic gear shifting for safer and more efficient wheelchairs; a technique for harnessing terahertz spectroscopy; "humanized" lab mice; and cheaper, more accurate malaria testing--meet this year's crop of Lemelson-M.I.T...
Signals in a Storm: Seeing Brain Cells Communicate
A new computer-imaging technique shows researchers how brain cells communicate—one molecule at a time
Brain Project, Robot Companions among Finalists in Billion-Euro Technology Contest
Cuddly robots and virtual brains battle for mega-grants.
Minimum to the Max: Shifting Solar Plasma Could Account for Sun's Recent Slumber
A new model for the sun's inner workings may help explain the most recent solar minimum, when sunspots all but disappeared for an unusually long time
Keep the Internet Fair
The government's net neutrality compromise fell flat. Here's a simple fix
Self-Aware Robots?
Journalist Charles Choi talks about work being done to make robots self-aware. Plus, we test your knowledge about some recent science in the news
Cosmological crowd-sourcing: Amateur's nebula pic wins ESO astro-image competition
Astronomy buffs know that the European Southern Observatory (ESO), a conglomerate of 15 European countries that operates three observing sites in Chile, is a font of awesome space images ...
Einstein@Home Taps Donated PC Graphics Processors to Uncover a Second Pulsar
Researchers find success using a massive distributed computing network to search radio waves for pulsars. In the coming decade they hope to find evidence of gravitational waves
Calendar: MIND events in March and April
Museum exhibits, conferences and events relating to the brain
