Electronics

Opening the lab door to alternative education, therapeutic emotional support, special needs and behaviorally nonconforming students shows potential benefits that reach far beyond report cards

Most people expect that turning their phone’s location services off disables mobile surveillance, but there are ways apps can avoid or escape those restrictions

Most comparisons between human drivers and automated vehicles have been at best uneven—and at worst unfair

A fitness-tracking app’s ability to reveal supposedly clandestine locations is a reality check for people lax about protecting their security and privacy

When AI creates compelling art, the meaning of creativity gets blurred

Magnetic clothing could be used to store passwords and other data 

Recent headlines would have us believe that device-hooked teens are mentally and socially doomed. The reality isn't so simple

An image-recognition smartphone app uses AI to help farmers in sub-Saharan Africa identify up to five different diseases

Critics pan National Security Council call for the government to build its own high-speed wireless network

At the first Science Meets Congress event, Energy Solutions for a Sustainable Future, energy and innovation experts from academia, government and the private sector talked with Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina about American's energy future.  

As cloud storage becomes more common, data security is an increasing concern

An algorithm originally designed to help robots move was useful in tackling an entirely different problem