Social media gets a lion's share of the credit for enabling Egyptians to organize protests and stay abreast of breaking news, but TV is the dominant media type and Al Jazeera is the most trusted TV news source in Egypt...
Video games, smart phones, apps, e-readers--people are fitting digital gadgets into all aspects of their lives
Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble and other sellers of electronic books and readers have been working to improve upon the experience of getting lost in a good read.
Gamers and hackers could control the office as well as games with Microsoft's Kinect
Never mind electric-vehicle range anxiety, how will power utilities and home systems handle the growing load of a burgeoning fleet of electric cars? A maker of home battery-charging stations partners with networking giant Cisco Systems to enable energy monitoring and management from a single touch-screen device...
The success of Google's Android software doesn't prove that open is better
Letters to the editor from the October 2010 issue of Scientific American
Laura Neuhaus is reporting on the science-oriented sessions from the World Economic Forum in Davos. This is her first report for Scientific American .
It's debatable that the U.S. is feeling the same sense of unity and resolve toward technology that it did more than 50 years ago when the Soviet Union launched its Sputnik satellite and won the race to space...
Thanks to amazing nested mirrors, NASA's NuSTAR telescope is set to reveal hidden phenomena in the cosmos
Google, Microsoft and Mozilla are moving quickly to respond to calls from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and consumer watchdogs for a "do not track" option that allows Web surfers to protect their private information from being exploited by advertising networks...
Excessive television or computer use may indicate psychological problems
Deal gives nascent field of plastic electronics a shot in the arm.
Setting ensembles of solid-state particles into entangled pairs holds promise for quantum computation
Bananas, cacao and bee-pollinated crops are all threatened with collapse in part because of their monoculture management. When a biological or social system is full of uniform individuals—be they bean plants or banks—one shared weakness can spell disaster for the whole lot...
A University of Chicago Medical Center transplantation expert explains the ins and outs of liver transplant complications and Jobs's rare form of pancreatic cancer
Blogging and other Web activities have allowed members of many marginalized communities to open previously locked media doors. But women still rely more on back channels and ask for less help than men do in the digital realm...
Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina introduces the February 2011 issue of Scientific American
