Researchers at Livermore National Lab expect to be producing energy with a controlled, self-sustaining fusion reaction within three years. 04.14.2009
Researchers are cloaking materials from light, sound, and even matter itself. 12.21.2008
Microbial forensics seems to have solved an infamous whodunnit. 12.16.2008
As tensions with Russia mounted, Georgia got slammed by hackers. 12.13.2008
While others were still hurling spears, these ancient people were felling prey with arrows. 12.07.2008
A new online game uses crowdsourcing to find out how to save humans from extinction. 09.05.2008
An interrogation expert spills his secrets. 07.28.2008
Widely available satellite imagery is making governments around the world awfully nervous. 07.21.2008
Four-and-a-half inch aircraft are providing a bird's-eye view of Iraq. 06.12.2008
Thoughts and illustrations from the head of a science legend. 06.09.2008
Growing electronics with viruses, finding alien life, and quantum privacy protection. 05.30.2008
A new book by CIA insiders reveals the most James Bond-like real-world spy devices. 05.30.2008
New bots will explore everything from Mars to your mouth—and perform surgery. 05.08.2008
Radar peers beneath clothes to find weapons—and the perfect pair of jeans. 03.31.2008
Given adequate food, fuel, and gender equality, mass conflict just might disappear. 03.13.2008
Computer modeling shows how to keep crowds from turning deadly. 03.03.2008
A physics joke that bombed. Atomically. 01.29.2008
What works and what doesn’t—not that you should try this at home. 11.19.2007
The doomsday rock is out there. It’s just a matter of time... 11.01.2007
Ultrafast scramjets, mach-10 wind tunnels, cockpit displays that see through clouds... 10.17.2007
Super lasers, binoculars that read minds, manipulating the "human terrain"... 10.04.2007
Thousands of New Yorkers were endangered by WTC debris—and government malfeasance. 09.07.2007
Anti-terrorism efforts vary from the marginally effective to the utterly pointless. 08.24.2007
Researchers can see the contaminants in an individual fingerprint. 08.03.2007
Chernobyl-area natives return to find a city of ghosts. 06.08.2007
Nimble wings may inspire aircraft of the future. 05.15.2007
Proliferation gives new life to old fear. 05.03.2007
Teenager achieves nuclear fusion at home 03.06.2007
If terrorism is cultivated by modern media, how do we fight it? 12.04.2006
Iraq's legacy as a mecca of learning falls casualty to chaos. 11.08.2006
Promising new technologies could sniff out liquid bombs. But can their limitations be overcome? 11.01.2006
One of the latest—and most amusing—gizmos in airport security: the air puffer 10.23.2006
Monitor your neighbors—or the Texas-Mexico border—right from your computer. 09.01.2006
Japan installs the world's first nationwide earthquake-detector system. 09.01.2006
America plans its first new nuclear warhead in two decades 09.01.2006
Cryptologists working to crack Nazi code. 08.01.2006
The Army adds shock treatment to target practice. 08.01.2006
Neutron cameras versus smuggled nuclear bombs. Biodetectors versus bioengineered smallpox. Is technology making us safer—or more vulnerable? 07.25.2006
Ann Finkbeiner's book peers inside a clandestine group of American military scientists. 07.19.2006
Biowarfare expert David R. Franz on the real risk of bioterrorism, Saddam's non-existent WMDs, and how HIV/AIDS might prevent us from eliminating the next smallpox. 06.14.2006
Army scientists could rout bioterror attack. 05.01.2006
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Look Back 11.22.2005
The American Century was built on a toxic metal, one we still know very little about 11.22.2005
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Fingerprinting could be the best way to put cybercriminals under your thumb 10.01.2004
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That's the challenge confronting face-recognition experts who hope to protect us from terrorists—to identify every single human on the planet 09.01.2002
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Can Big Brother see right through your clothes? 07.01.2002
A powered exoskeleton could transform the average joe into a supersoldier 02.01.2002
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A critical look at the science and technology required to build an antiballistic system that would make the United States invulnerable to a missile attack 11.01.2001
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Richard Craig, PhD; Staff Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Richland, Washington 07.01.2001
Discover Magazine Innovation Awards 07.01.2001
The whole country is stuck in traffic. But good science can fix that 06.01.2001
By learning to draw fertilizer from a clear blue sky, chemists have fed the multitudes. they've also unleashed a fury as threatening as atomic energy 04.01.2001
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The technology is here: Why can't you buy one? 09.01.1999
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The military is gearing up for weapons that don't kill 04.01.1999
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Iodine Wind 01.01.1998
When soldiers returning from the war complained of mysterious illness, the Pentagon called it stress. But the real culprit, it appears, was deadly chemistry. 08.01.1997
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The air teems with viruses, bacteria, fungi, and other microscopic creatures. They can cross oceans on a gust of wind. Some can cause crop failures, disease, and death. Some can be used as invisible weapons, and we know next to nothing about them. 02.01.1997
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Aerospace engineers are crossing a cannon with a jet engine and hitting five times the speed of sound without leaving the ground. 03.01.1994
In the name of peace, the Army will soon start incinerating millions of aging weapons filled with lethal nerve gas and mustard gas. But some residents of Utah, where the burning will begin, are a bit worried by that. 11.01.1993
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