The 10 Most Popular Slide Shows of 2008
Images capture subjects as vast as a nascent ocean and as tiny as carbon nanotubes
The 10 Most Popular Slide Shows of 2008
- 9. Beyond Red and Blue: 7 Ways to View the Presidential Election Map
Images reveal what the country would look like if politics trumped geography
American or Swiss? When Mark Newman, a physics professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, resized each county to reflect its population, a tangled cobweb emerged... © 2008 M. E. J. Newman - 8. Inside the Solar-Hydrogen House: No More Power Bills--Ever
A New Jersey resident generates and stores all the power he needs with solar panels and hydrogen
Hydrogen House: This house in East Amwell, N.J., looks like a typical suburban dwelling but is actually the first private home to be powered by a solar--hydrogen energy system... David Biello / © SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN - 6. 2008 Gadget Guide: 33 Technology Innovations
Holiday gift list: 13 high-tech toys, plus 20 green gadgets and socially responsible inventions
Flight Motion Simulators, Inc.'s Dreamflyer: The Dreamflyer is a three-foot (0.9-meter) by six-foot (1.8-meter) virtual-reality flight motion simulator with a black powder-coated aluminum frame and sports seat that faces up to three video monitors portraying images of flight... Image courtesy of Flight Motion Simulators, Inc. - 2. Art as Visual Research: 12 Examples of Kinetic Illusions in Op Art
Art and neuroscience combine in creating fascinating examples of illusory motion
The Enigma Illusion: Op artist Isia Leviant unknowingly combined the MacKay Rays and the BBC wallboard illusion in the now classic Enigma illusion... The image is courtesy of Jorge Otero-Millan