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Can You See Me Now?
A camera with a unique, spherical lens may bring single-shot gigapixel cameras closer to reality
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From iPhones to SciPhones
Scientists are developing iPhone apps that aid in research and that appeal to "citizen scientists" as well
Technology
Social media for science: The geologic perspective
Last week, I spent a pleasant hour over lunch talking to my 60-year-old aunt and her 80-something husband about "this Twitter thing" and how one defines a blog.
Technology
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
Technology
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...
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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...
Mind & Brain
Signals in a Storm: Seeing Brain Cells Communicate
A new computer-imaging technique shows researchers how brain cells communicate—one molecule at a time
Technology
Brain Project, Robot Companions among Finalists in Billion-Euro Technology Contest
Cuddly robots and virtual brains battle for mega-grants.
Space & Physics
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
The Sciences
Keep the Internet Fair
The government's net neutrality compromise fell flat. Here's a simple fix
Technology
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
Space & Physics
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 ...
Technology
Apple's iPad 2.0 will face stiffer competition than its predecessor
Speculation abounds that Apple will introduce its much-anticipated iPad 2.0 at a Wednesday meeting at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
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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
Mind & Brain
Calendar: MIND events in March and April
Museum exhibits, conferences and events relating to the brain
The Sciences
Talking Science and the Google Science Fair [Video]
"We need to teach our kids that it’s not just the winner of the Super Bowl who deserves to be celebrated,” said President Obama in his recent State of the Union address, “but the winner of the science fair.”The first Google Science Fair, for which Scientific American is a partner, will do just that...
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You'll believe anything you read online, won't you?
In July, 2010, one corner of the blogosphere erupted with the seething, burning rage that online communities seem to have a unique ability to muster.
The Sciences
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Organs-on-a-Chip for Faster Drug Development
New devices may help bring drugs to market faster
Technology
Freedom and Anonymity: Keeping the Internet Open
Fear of cyberattacks should not lead us to destroy what makes the Internet special
