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How Hackers Made Kinect a Game Changer
Machines that respond to your touch, motion or voice are making keyboards obsolete. Is your TV remote next?
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Are Mind-Enhancing Drugs a Good Idea?
Scientists are testing drugs that can sharpen our brain. But will they give some people an unfair advantage?
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Will Flying Get Its Mojo Back?
Changes are on the way that should ease the grim gauntlet of long lines, security checks and cramped seats
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Snooze Science Yields Doze Apps
Now you can reportedly track what your brain has been doing all night, all in the name of a good night's sleep
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In the Military, Inventiveness of All Kinds Is a Weapon
Experts say a changing battlefield prompts calls for increasing emotional intelligence as well as technical prowess
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Robots Get the Human Touch
Robots are able to do a lot of things. But now they're taking on the biggest challenge of all: Figuring out how humans work
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Don’t Curse the Darkness, Get One of the Bright New Lights
It's time to say good-bye to the iconic, but inefficient incandescent bulb and welcome in LEDs
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Engineering the Climate
The idea of manipulating the Earth's atmosphere has been derided as too risky and too arrogant. That may be changing
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Where Fear Lives
Scientists are testing innovative ways to keep frightening memories from controlling people's lives
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Nine Inventions Whose Time Has Come
Some are ingenious, some long overdue and some a bit strange. But all provide a glimpse of a different future
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Can Crowdsourcing Really Spark Innovation?
Companies and scientists are using games and competitions to bring in fresh thinking from outsiders
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3D Printers Are Building the Future, One Part at a Time
Don't just download music. Download sculpture. Or a bicycle. That's the promise of 3D printing
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Seven Reasons to Believe Electric Cars Are Getting in Gear
They're not ready for prime time, but electric cars are starting to pick up speed
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Why We Don’t Like Creativity
Everyone talks about innovation, but most people seem uncomfortable with the creative forces that make it happen
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How Smart Can a City Get?
Experts think it's only a matter of time before cities are being run by sensors connected to powerful computers
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Space Travel in the 22nd Century
NASA and the Defense Department want scientists to start dreaming the next impossible dream: Exploring another solar system
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Pet Tech Gears Up
Pet products are already a huge business. Innovations like pet GPS and remote feeding devices are making it even bigger
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Drones Get Smarter
We're moving closer to the day when flying robots will make decisions on their own
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Are Machines Dumbing Us Down?
The idea that technology is causing us to lose our mental edge won't go away
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Can Solar Survive the Solyndra Swirl?
Following the collapse of the ballyhooed solar firm, these are dark times for renewable energy. But big players are betting it's treehugger fantasy
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