One Hundred Movies on Just One Disk
Holographic digital storage will let consumers store a DVD library on a single disk. 05.08.2008
Is That a Gun in Your Pocket or Are You a Size 2?
Radar peers beneath clothes to find weapons—and the perfect pair of jeans. 03.31.2008
Einstein Didn't Grok His Own Revolution
He thought black holes and quantum mechanics were too weird to be true. 03.10.2008
Teleportation? Very Possible. Next Up: Time Travel.
Some of the most far-out sci-fi is eminently do-able. 02.28.2008
20 Things You Didn't Know About... Relativity
Galileo invented it, Einstein understood it, and Eddington saw it. 02.25.2008
58. Discovery Channel 2020: Living-Cell TV
"Hyperlenses" and "superlenses" could let us watch living cells in real time. 01.17.2008
Solar Power, At Last?
The long-sought mechanism for a superior solar cell may now be at hand. 11.16.2007
Microscopy Approaches Fundamental Limits
If God can’t pin down tiny atoms, what hope do mere mortals have? 06.13.2007
Einstein vs. the Nobel Prize
Why the Nobel Committee repeatedly dissed this "world-bluffing Jewish physicist" 09.28.2006
Sky Lights
Scientists celebrate 100 years of understanding cosmic speed limits 12.01.2005
Sky Lights
Scientists celebrate a strange universe in which space can bend and time can stop 05.01.2005
Sky Lights
Even in the darkest depths of space, there's no escaping light pollution 04.28.2005
Light Flight
01.02.2004
Beetles by Moonlight
09.09.2003
Butterflies Like Mates With a Twist
08.01.2003
Computing With Stopped Light
07.01.2003
The Next Photography Revolution
Here comes a digital-camera chip that could change everything 12.01.2002
Holodeck Meets Sick Bay
11.01.2002
Can I Pour You a Pint of Light?
11.01.2002
Future Tech
Scientists reverse the laws of optics in a quest to create the perfect lens 04.01.2002
Photography, Old & New Again
Photography, Old & New Again 02.01.2002
Physics
Year In Science 01.13.2002
Trapping Light
This is the future, and it moves at 186,000 miles per second. 04.01.2001
Sky Lights
What's that light in the western sky? Hint: It's not ET 03.01.2001
They Invented it
02.01.2001
Help Me mow the Lawn, Obi Wan
01.01.2001
The Year in Science: Technology 1997
Slow Light 01.01.1998
Let There Be Matter
12.01.1997
Beyond Mega and Giga
01.01.1997
Through a Fish Eye, Lightly
10.01.1996
X-ray Dreams
Scientists of all stripes yearn for the incredibly powerful beacon of an X-ray laser. Charles Rhodes wants one so badly that he's willing to reinvent physics to get it. 07.01.1995
1995 Discover Awards: Sight
06.01.1995
A Lens Made of Light
03.01.1993