
Inside the Solar-Hydrogen House: No More Power Bills--Ever
A New Jersey resident generates and stores all the power he needs with solar panels and hydrogen

Inside the Solar-Hydrogen House: No More Power Bills--Ever
A New Jersey resident generates and stores all the power he needs with solar panels and hydrogen

News Bytes of the Week—Imagine There’s No Evolution: Yoko Says Oh No to Expelled
Anthropologists say women prized since 5000 B.C.; new mega-Earth discovered; making fuel from car exhaust; and more


A New Iron Age
New class of superconductor may help pin down mysterious physics

Are Backyard Ethanol Brewers an Answer to High-Priced Gas?
Company debuts ethanol home refinery system to offer consumers an alternative to gasoline

Solar Power Lightens Up with Thin-Film Technology
Cheap, durable, efficient devices are needed to generate a significant amount of electricity from the sun. So-called thin-film photovoltaic cells may be just the ticket

Six Things in Expelled That Ben Stein Doesn't Want You to Know...
...about intelligent design and evolution

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed--Scientific American's Take
John Rennie, Michael Shermer and Steve Mirsky all watched Ben Stein's new antievolution movie. Here's what they had to say about its design flaws.

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed--Ben Stein Launches a Science-free Attack on Darwin
In a new documentary film, actor, game show host and financial columnist Ben Stein falls for the pseudoscience of intelligent design

Ben Stein's Expelled: No Integrity Displayed
A shameful antievolution film tries to blame Darwin for the Holocaust

A Conversation with Expelled's Associate Producer Mark Mathis
Roundtable Discussion with Scientific American and Mark Mathis

RFID Power
Radio-frequency identification tags label all kinds of inventoried goods and speed commuters through toll plazas. Now tiny RFID components are being developed with a rather different aim: thwarting counterfeiters

Self-Powered Nanotech
Nanosize machines need still tinier power plants