Scientific Innovation
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Lousy Sleep Isn’t Good For Your Body, Either
More and more scientific research is showing that sleep is more important to our state of mind--and body--than we ever could have imagined
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The War on Cancer Goes Stealth
With nanomedicine, the strategy is not to poison cancer cells or to blast them away but to trick them
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Could Solar Panels on Your Roof Power Your Home?
Researchers at MIT are investigating how to turn houses in Cambridge, Massachusetts, into mini-power plants
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Mapping How the Brain Thinks
The White House wants to fund a huge project that would allow scientists to see, in real time, how a brain does its work
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What Can We Do About Big Rocks From Space?
Last week's close encounters with space rocks have raised concerns about how we deal with dangerous asteroids. Here's how we would try to knock them off course.
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10 Fresh Looks at Love
Don't understand love? Not to worry. Scientists continue to study away to try to make sense of it for the rest of us
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Primal Screens: How Pro Football Is Amping Up Its Game
Pro football is turning to screens--some massive, others on smart phones--to try to keep its fans entertained.
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CSI: Tennessee—Enter the World of Nuclear Forensics
Scientists are busy tracking the sources of stolen uranium in the hopes of deterring crime—and prevent the weapons getting into the wrong hands
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These Machines Will Be Able to Detect Smells Your Own Nose Cannot
We're getting closer to the day when your smartphone knows you have a cold before you do
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Learning From Nature How to Deal With Nature
As cities like New York prepare for what appears to be a future of more extreme weather, the focus increasingly is on following nature's lead
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Can a Buzzing Fork Make You Lose Weight?
HapiFork, a utensil that slows down your eating, is one of a new wave of gadgets designed to help you take control of your health
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When Machines See
Giving computers vision, through pattern recognition algorithms, could one day make them better than doctors at spotting tumors and other health problems.
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Six Innovators to Watch in 2013
All are inventive minds pushing technology in fresh directions, some to solve stubborn problems, others to make our lives a little fuller
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The Best Inventions of 2012 You Haven’t Heard of Yet (Part 2)
Here's the second half of a list of innovations that, while not as splashy as Google Glass, may actually become a bigger part of our daily lives.
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The Best Inventions of 2012 You Haven’t Heard of Yet (Part 1)
They haven't received much attention yet, but here are some of the more innovative--and useful--ideas that have popped up this year.
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A More Human Artificial Brain
Canadian researchers have created a computer model that performs tasks like a human brain. It also sometimes forgets things
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10 Gifts to Celebrate Innovation
From glasses that fight jet lag to a plant that waters itself to a rocking chair that fires up the iPad, here are presents no one will forget
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Take Two Pills and Charge Me in the Morning
Health and medical mobile apps are booming. But what happens when they shift from tracking data to diagnosing diseases?
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Jack Andraka, the Teen Prodigy of Pancreatic Cancer
A high school sophomore won the youth achievement Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for inventing a new method to detect a lethal cancer
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The History of Pardoning Turkeys Began With Tad Lincoln
The rambunctious boy had free rein of the White House, and used it to divert a holiday bird from the butcher's block
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