
Smartphone Use while Walking Is Painfully Dumb
Distracted walking is the new hip reason for an ER trip
Distracted walking is the new hip reason for an ER trip
SA examines emerging technologies that are almost here: Turn an ordinary table into a touch screen, monitor your kids’ whereabouts and place the power of 3-D printing in the palm of your hand—and there’s more...
SA examines emerging technologies that are almost here: Turn an ordinary table into a touch screen, monitor your kids’ whereabouts and place the power of 3-D printing in the palm of your hand—and there’s more...
David Biello looks back at the big environmental stories of the year covered on 60-Second Earth
The famous San Francisco 49ers coach Bill Walsh figured out how to make football digital
Microsoft Research head Peter Lee talks about keeping his team—about 1 percent of the company’s workforce—focused on the big picture
What’s my password again? Image association as a way to memorize dozens of unique security codes
A carbon threshold breached, commitments to brain science made, mystery neutrinos found and human evolution revised—these and other events highlight the year in science and technology as picked by the editors of Scientific American...
The achievement suggests that 3-D printing might soon be mature enough for people to manufacture complete devices on demand
A computer's microphone and speakers can covertly send and receive data
How a soccer video game finally got air resistance right
China and other emerging economies have overtaken Western nations in dumping old electronic goods, from TVs to cellphones, and will lead a projected 33 percent surge in the amount of waste from 2012 to 2017, a U.N.-backed alliance said on Sunday...
Just because your smartphone can bring up your position on a map does not mean that a call to 911 automatically shows responders where you are. Larry Greenemeier reports.
We show you some of our favorite gizmos from the past year
We show you some of our favorite gizmos from the past year
A new patent for this wearable technology could aid someone who is blind, deaf or needs to be guided through an alien environment
Researchers have built a battery from a conductive, nickel-coated polyester fabric, so that your phone battery could be sewn into your shirt. Christopher Intagliata reports
Why we need to rethink intellectual property for the era of additive manufacturing
The material, called stanene, could in theory mimic the properties of a room-temperature superconductor
Forget plastic: for under $1,200, you could print metal components and tools
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