EngineeringMarch 1, 2017
The Search for a New Test of Artificial Intelligence
Researchers need new ways to distinguish artificial intelligence from the natural kind
Engineering
BehaviorMarch 1, 2017
Cities Become More Creative and Efficient as They Grow
New science reveals why cities become more creative and efficient as they grow
New Issue: Science’s Impossible Questions. Read Now
EngineeringFebruary 24, 2017
Cringeworthy Ideas for Trench Warfare, 1917
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: February 24, 1917
ElectronicsFebruary 22, 2017
Human Activity Will Heat Alaskan Skies—Deliberately and Picturesquely
This week powerful radio waves will disturb the ionosphere to probe satellite disruptions and create strange glows
EngineeringFebruary 17, 2017
Italian Armaments Technology, 1917
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: February 17, 1917.
EngineeringFebruary 16, 2017
Heat Sensor Has Snaky Sensitivity
Researchers have developed a heat sensor that can detect temperature changes of just ten thousandths of a degree Celsius—comparable with the sensitivity of pit vipers. Christopher Intagliata reports.
EngineeringFebruary 14, 2017
North Korea's Missile Threats to the U.S. May Not Be Empty for Long
North Korea has always talked the talk, and now it seems to be walking the walk as never before
EngineeringFebruary 14, 2017
Cool Coating Chills in Sunlight
A thin film coating can chill a vat of water to 15 degress Fahrenheit cooler than its surroundings, by absorbing—and then emitting—the sun's infrared rays. Christopher Intagliata reports.
EngineeringFebruary 10, 2017
An Inside Look at a Propaganda Submarine, 1917
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: February 10, 1917
EnvironmentFebruary 9, 2017
Drilling Resumes on the Dakota Access Pipeline
Legal experts have said the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe faces long odds in convincing courts to halt work on the pipeline
EngineeringFebruary 3, 2017
American Submarine Technology for Spain, 1917
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: February 3, 1917
TechnologyFebruary 2, 2017
“Escape Room” Game Challenges Physics-Phobes to Face Their Fear
A quantum leap in problem-solving is the only way out of a university’s new LabEscape scenario game