A robot must protect its own existence.
This mid-20th-century dictate to the robotic clade from science fiction author and biochemist Isaac Asimov seems cleanly in step with Darwinian theory and the biological world of survival of the fittest...
Does new research prove paranormal precognition or normal postcognition?
Will Al Qaeda respond to the death of Osama bin Laden with serious cyber attacks?
The short answer is, no. There could be some denial-of-service attacks on U.S.
A toolkit used to identify Osama bin Laden in his hideout was probably a lot like the handheld devices used by U.S. soldiers
From DNA matching to tracking technology, this report reveals how science aided in bringing down the master terrorist
Museum exhibits, conferences and events relating to the brain
Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), the cloud computing arm of online marketplace Amazon.com, on Friday explained what happened during last week's service outage, which disrupted many of its customers' Web sites...
The New York International Auto Show features a fleet of vehicles with brawn, brains and an environmental conscience
The New York International Auto Show features a fleet of vehicles with brawn, brains and an environmental conscience
Collecting all digital data on people could yield key insights into our nature, but violate privacy. In "Too Hard for Science?&
Places that will recycle your obsolete electronics—and they might even pay you for it
Your brand-new device is about to be obsolete. Save it from the trash heap
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...
Researchers claim to wirelessly break into automobile networks to take control of brakes and steering as the automobile industry shores up defenses
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...
Computers have great trouble deciphering voices that are speaking simultaneously. That may soon change
What's next for the artificially intelligent Jeopardy! champion?
A century after the discovery of materials that conduct electricity without resistance, the applications remain disappointingly limited. That may be about to change
A century after the discovery of materials that conduct electricity without resistance, the applications remain disappointingly limited. That may be about to change
Letters to the editor from the December 2010 issue of Scientific American
