Information Is Driving a New Revolution in Manufacturing
Introduction to a special report on 3-D printing, nano materials, atomic machines and more
Features
Who’s the Boss? Next-Gen Factory Robots Could Call the Shots
Humans and robots will work elbow to elbow on the shop floor, but you'll be surprised by who's giving the orders
Future of Substance: New Materials Promise Better Batteries, Stronger Steel
Seven next-generation materials promise to change the way the world is made
A Brighter Future for Manufacturing, 3-D Printed 1 Layer at a Time
Will 3-D printing transform conventional manufacturing?
Atomic Toolbox: Manufacturing at the Nanoscale
Scientists are building the next generation of atomic-scale devices
High-Powered Computing Heralds Digital Industrial Revolution
Digital simulations have become so powerful that companies send their products through the wringer—sometimes literally—before ever building a prototype
Seeds of Dementia: What Do Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Lou Gehrig’s Have in Common?
A chain reaction of toxic proteins may help explain Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other killers—an insight that could lead to desperately needed new treatment options
The Long and Arduous Quest to Find Flowing Water on Mars May Be Over
The surface of Mars changes all the time. Is flowing water one of the causes?
Sex with Other Human Species Might Have Been Secret of Homo Sapiens’s Success
DNA analyses find that early Homo sapiens mated with other human species and hint that such interbreeding played a key role in the triumph of our kind
How Kitty Is Killing the Dolphins
The pathogens of land animals are spreading to the oceans, threatening otters, seals, whales, coral and other sea creatures
Medical Mystery: Mirror Images of Amino Acids Provide Clues to Schizophrenia, Stroke and Lobster Sex
In the chemistry of life, left-handed amino acids are the rule. Why does nature make so many exceptions?
Departments
How the CIA’s Fake Vaccination Campaign Endangers Us All
Scientists Are Trying to Get Supermarket Tomatoes’ Flavor to Catch Up
Communicating with Pheromones
- From the Editor
Making the Future with Manufacturing Advances
- Letters
Readers Respond to "Brain-Changing Games"
- Advances
New DSM-5 Ignores Biology of Mental Illness
A Fetus’s Unique Immune System May Help It Cope with HIV
Doughnuts Dusted with Nanopowder? Blech!
“Tadpole” Galaxies Offer Snapshots of the Milky Way’s Youth
Ants Misbehaving: Argentine and Asian Ants Battle for U.S. Dominance
Decades-Old Documents Could Speed Discovery of Geothermal Wells
How CBS’s The Big Bang Theory Humanizes Scientists
Is Food Just a Cocktail of Hormones?
Space Race: A Comparison of the Speediest Spacecraft
Meet the First Placental Mammal
Anybody Home? Next-Generation Telescopes Could Pick Up Hints of E.T.
An Emotionally Intelligent GPS System
Fuskushima Radiation May Help Scientists Track Wildlife
Preventing the Next Chelyabinsk
Hiding in Plain Sight
- Forum
Big Data Needs a Big Theory to Go with It
- The Science of Health
To Beat Bad Breath, Keep the Bacteria in Your Mouth Happy
- TechnoFiles
Why Are Micro Movies So Popular These Days?
- Recommended
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- Skeptic
The Science of Guns Proves Arming Untrained Citizens Is a Bad Idea
