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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

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

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

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?

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

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