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What Is This? A Close Look at Pocket Lint?
Hint: It dates back to 6th-century China but never really caught on until the mid-1800s, when it was introduced in its packaged, modern form. 06.19.2009
Forget Lightning. How Do We Catch Sunshine in a Bottle?
Renewable power is inspiring clever new ways to store electricity—and to uncork it exactly when and where it is needed. 06.17.2009
Building an Interstate Highway System for Energy
Tomorrow’s smart grid will keep the lights on and factories humming with clean (but fickle) renewable energy. 06.10.2009
New Tech Could Make Nuclear the Best Weapon Against Climate Change
Two new designs aim to make nuclear reactors safer and vastly more efficient. 06.08.2009
How to See Inside a Brain in Motion
A new mobile EEG system now lets researchers probe the brain function while people move around naturally. 06.05.2009
When Life Gives You Manure, Make Clean Fuel
The simple step of drying out animal waste can help turn it into a safer, more practical energy source. 06.04.2009
20 Things You Didn't Know About... Movies
The first skin flicks, setting actors on fire (safely), the great bluff that turned into IMAX, and more. 06.03.2009
Think Tech: Technology Meets the Great Outdoors
New gadgets that can help you enjoy, document, and survive the wilderness 05.29.2009
Building the World's Wimpiest Space Thruster—Harder Than It Sounds
The ESA's new system is designed to counter the force of sunlight on a spacecraft—about the same as the force of gravity on a single human hair. 05.24.2009
Life After Silicon: How Graphene Could Revolutionize Electronics
Will the next generation of computers, phones, and even energy storage be built on a form of carbon? 05.19.2009
Pixels by the Yard: HP Prints Flexible Screens Like Newsprint
A flexible computer screen—one that you can roll up and stick in your pocket—is coming closer to reality. 05.13.2009
The Frontiers of Astronomy
DISCOVER's panel of top astronomers and astrophysicists discuss some of the biggest questions in the universe. 05.10.2009
The Inspiring Boom in "Super-Earths"
At last we are finding rocky planets like our own. But some are pretty weird: The smallest may have a mineral-vapor atmosphere that condenses as lava rain or rock snow. 05.07.2009
The Next Source of Green Energy: Your Car Itself
A new MIT invention turns shock absorbers into electric generators. 05.03.2009
Tools of the Trade: Multi-Axis Crystal Spectrometer
05.03.2009
The Pentagon’s Beetle Borgs
Researchers create what may be the perfect scout: a bug controlled remotely through a chip implanted in its optic lobes and flight muscles. 04.30.2009
20 Things You Didn't Know About... Tunnels
New York has a forgotten one, Texas has a $2 billion wasted one, and Switzerland's building the longest. 04.29.2009
Bringing Dead-Tree Misfits Into the Digital World
A new Fujitsu scanner merges business cards, receipts, and other important pieces of paper with the rest of your data. 04.27.2009
The Achilles Heel on Michelangelo's David: His Shin
3-D scanning shows where the statue is most stressed—and where it will probably fail. 04.23.2009
3 Great Uses of Twitter, According to Cofounder Jack Dorsey
1) Throwing parties 2) Lifeline during a terrorist attack 3) Staying connected with mom 04.22.2009
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