Using this state-of-the-art technique will benefit the agency by saving millions in manufacturing costs. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. is using a method called selective laser melting, or SLM, to create intricate [...]

To what extent can social networking make it easier to find people and solve real-world problems? IN 1967 Stanley Milgram, an American social scientist, conducted an experiment in which he sent dozens of packages to [...]

TechJect is looking to raise $110,000 via indigogo by the time the calendar ticks over to 2013. Given their impressive flight capabilities, it’s not surprising to see researchers turning to the world of flying insects [...]

Why spend billions on restringing, burying, or waterproofing power lines?  True post-storm resilience lies in onsite renewable energy. Last week, 8.5 million people in the Northeast lost power, most for days, due to Hurricane Sandy. [...]

Internet voting for American citizens is exceedingly dangerous. That’s the opinion of David Jefferson, acomputer scientist and chairman of Verified Voting, an election watchdog group based in Carlsbad, Calif. “I consider voting security to be a national-security issue,” [...]

Rather Than Reinventing Education By Teaching A Million People At Once, Can We Perfect Teaching One Person At A Time? We’ve written a few times about innovation in education, and I’ve pointed out that I [...]

Bacterial medicine is starting to emerge ONE of the crucial transitions of modern health care was from herbal to chemical medicine. Doctors had known for millennia that willow bark and poppy sap relieve pain. But [...]

A new manufacturing technique could help poor countries as well as rich ones EVERY summer, Seattle holds a raft race in Green Lake, a park that is the eponymous home of the water the rafts [...]

For decades, “bigger is better” has been the conventional path to efficiency in industries ranging from transportation to power generation. Food once grown on small family plots now comes overwhelmingly from factory farms. Vessels that [...]

Could yield an entirely new class of devices that use light instead of electricity Stanford researchers in physics and engineering have demonstrated a device that produces a synthetic magnetism to exert virtual force on photons [...]

The Coming Age of Enhancement IF a brain implant were safe and available and allowed you to operate your iPad or car using only thought, would you want one? What about an embedded device that [...]

Frangioni’s approach is quite different. One of the main forces driving the move to open access is the idea that if the public has already paid for research through taxation or philanthropy, then it’s not [...]