By Dr. Roderick S. Graham / 01.25.2017 Associate Professor of Sociology Old Dominion University The internet is...
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Since its discovery in 2004, scientists have believed that graphene may have the innate ability to superconduct....
Does our dependence on smartphones harm our social fabric? / Shutterstock By Dr. Kostadin Kushlev / 01.11.2017...
Static electricity can cause more than just a bad hair day. / Photo by Ken Bosma, Creative...
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko, right, and Oleksandr Turchynov, Chairman of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, chair...
Laura Lewis, junior fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows, is the author of a recent paper...
In 2016, MIT CSAIL researchers worked on a range of projects in robotics, theory, wireless technology, software...
12.13.2016 Looking to help humanity explore the cosmos? Advance our knowledge in biology or brain science? How...
Photo by Camil Tulcan By Trevor Paglen / 12.08.2016 I. OUR eyes are fleshy things, and for...
Dita in 3D. Shapeways By Dr. Danmei Sun / 12.07.2016 Assistant Professor of Textile Materials and Engineering...
12.06.2016 Ukrainian scientist Vladislav Kiselev claims that he has developed a type of battery that can power gadgets...
By David Pescovitz / 12.05.2016 This oft-seen wonderfully weird photo depicts Hugo Gernsback wearing his “teleyeglasses” in...
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave describes “shadows” on the cave wall which we are taught from birth...
By Cory Doctorow / 11.30.2016 Typewriter historian Martin Howard (previously) writes, “I was able to pick up...
Sharing election hashtags: Dots are Twitter accounts; lines show retweeting; larger dots are retweeted more. Red dots...
A basic design of a light-based chip. Arnab Hazari, Author provided By Arnab Hazari / 11.28.2016 PhD...
A new prototype of a lithium-sulphur battery – which could have five times the energy density of...
By Dr. Fillipo Arrichello / 11.16.2016 Associate Professor in Control Engineering University of Cassino and Southern Lazio,...
World’s ‘Smallest Magnifying Glass’ Makes it Possible to See Individual Chemical Bonds between Atoms 
World’s ‘Smallest Magnifying Glass’ Makes it Possible to See Individual Chemical Bonds between Atoms
The presence of the sharp metal tip on a plasma sphere concentrates the electric field into its...
Drawing of Leibniz’s calculating machine, featured as a folding plate in Miscellanea Berolensia ad incrementum scientiarum (1710),...
Getting up early in the morning to the annoying sound of an alarm clock is one of...
The Cryogenic Air Storage and Fill Station (CryoASFS) is a zero-loss liquid-air storage station capable of rapidly...
Computers weren’t always made of motherboards and CPUs. At one time, they were human! And at NASA’s...
Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have devised a way to train neural...
Diamonds are a data storers’ best friend? / Shutterstock By Dr. Siddharth Dhomkar (left) and Jacob...
By Andrea James / 10.27.2016 Five years ago, Derek Deville launched an amateur rocket into the stratosphere...
A new design for transistors which operate on ‘scavenged’ energy from their environment could form the basis...
Parents should be involved in their children’s use of electronic devices. / Shutterstock By Dr. Jenny Radesky...
A hydro-responsive thread can be used with sensors to monitor body functions. Alonso Nichols, Tufts University By...
When will computers and humans interact fully? / Shutterstock By Dr. Frances L. VanScoy / 10.20.2016 Associate...