Engineering

Will artificial intelligence be your next ER doctor?

The U.S. has been slow to embrace the technology, even though Japan and China are zooming ahead

Can dam releases that mimic natural flows restore the Grand Canyon ecosystem?

Modeling the physics of bird jumping is helping engineers make more mobile machines

Researchers built a small, flexible device that harvests wi-fi, bluetooth and cellular signals, and turns them into DC electricity. Christopher Intagliata reports.

The Broadcom MASTERS competition gives middle schoolers a chance to step from behind science fair posters and up to a series of hands-on challenges as part of a team

An app could help those with face blindness but has raised concerns among privacy experts 

What’s changed since my first Scientific American column

Doris Tsao mastered facial recognition in the brain. Now she’s looking to determine the neural code for everything we see

Will a general algorithm that masters chess, go and shogi succeed as well for games with less-defined rules?

Disruptive solutions that are poised to change the world