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Passion Gear: Autos Appeal to Emotions This Week at the New York City Car Show [Slide Show]
The New York International Auto Show features a fleet of vehicles with brawn, brains and an environmental conscience
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Too Hard for Science? A digital panopticon
Collecting all digital data on people could yield key insights into our nature, but violate privacy. In "Too Hard for Science?&
Use It Better: How to Unload Your Old Gadgets
Places that will recycle your obsolete electronics—and they might even pay you for it
Gadgets Are Garbage—So Here's How to Keep Them Out of the Landfill
Your brand-new device is about to be obsolete. Save it from the trash heap
Editors' Roundtable: Science Conference Reports
Scientific American editors Christine Gorman, Robin Lloyd, Michael Moyer and Kate Wong talk about their recent trips to different science conferences: the meetings of the Association for Health Care Journalists, the Paleoanthropology Society, the American Association of Physical Anthropologists and an M.I.T...
Highway Robbery: Car Computer Controls Could Be Vulnerable to Hackers
Researchers claim to wirelessly break into automobile networks to take control of brakes and steering as the automobile industry shores up defenses
Electronic health records face human hurdles more than technological ones
PHILADELPHIA—In medicine, there's the patient and there's the chart. And the chart is paper.
That's the stereotype. Actually, about 20 to 30 percent of all primary care physicians in the nation now use basic electronic health records, according to David Blumenthal, a Harvard Medical School professor who was the national coordinator for health information technology in the Obama Administration until a week ago...
Solving the Cocktail Party Problem
Computers have great trouble deciphering voices that are speaking simultaneously. That may soon change
Watson Looks for Work
What's next for the artificially intelligent Jeopardy! champion?
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Absolute Hero: Heike Onnes's Discovery of Superconductors Turns 100 [Slide Show]
A century after the discovery of materials that conduct electricity without resistance, the applications remain disappointingly limited. That may be about to change
Absolute Hero: Heike Onnes's Discovery of Superconductors Turns 100 [Slide Show]
A century after the discovery of materials that conduct electricity without resistance, the applications remain disappointingly limited. That may be about to change
Readers Respond to "A Geometric Theory of Everything" and Other Articles
Letters to the editor from the December 2010 issue of Scientific American
Lose Focus, Lose Happiness
A wandering mind may bring you down
Getting to Know You: Bit.ly Chief Scientist Finds Rich Data in Shortened Links
The brain behind many of the shortened URLs on the Web talks about data analysis and how it lets her figure out which soccer team won without watching the match
Use It Better: The Best Ways to Digitize Your Photos, Music and Home Videos
Do-it-yourself or send it out, here are some tips and recommendations to preserve your analog past
Seeing Forever: Storing Bits Isn't the Same as Preserving Them, by David Pogue
Digital photos and videos are great, but don't expect your grandkids to see them
Physicists entangle a record-breaking 14 quantum bits
Quantum information science is a bit like classroom management—the larger the group, the harder it is to keep everything together.
But to build a practical quantum computer physicists will need many particles working in synchrony as quantum bits, or quibits...
A Stimulating Solution for Math Problems
A device that sends electric current through the brain improves numerical skills
Being John Malkovich: Personal Control of Individual Brain Cells
An advanced brain-machine interface enables patients to control individual nerve cells deep inside their own brains
Too Hard for Science?: Making astronauts with printers
If printers have the power to manufacture organs, why not brains? Or people? In "Too Hard for Science?" I interview scientists about ideas they would love to explore that they don't think could be investigated...
