Literature Is Hard to Remember—Compared to Facebook
And gossip is more memorable than the evening news, according to a new study
What’s Next For 3-D Printing? Car Bodies
Canadian start-up Urbee takes 2500 hours to print a car body that has only 40 parts
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Mars Attack: The Curiosity Rover’s Laser-Zapping Rock Analyzer
In a timely new memoir, a geologist chronicles his journey from shooting model rockets to becoming one of Curiosity’s lead scientists
Robots Are Not Killing Jobs, Says a Roboticist
A Georgia Tech professor of robotics argues automation is still creating more jobs than it destroys
Paying for Free TV
Aereo takes broadcast TV signals and puts them on your computer, tablet, and smartphone—for a fee
A 3-D Printer for Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Researchers hope to one day be able to print out an entire human liver
Can Cars Keep Their Cool, Even at 100 Miles Per Gallon?
A look at the top tech cars of 2013 with car critic Lawrence Ulrich
Going Back to School for Drone Pilot Training
There will be 10 000 commercial drones by 2018. They’ll need pilots
Basketball and Biology: A Tale of Two Social Networks
A systems biologist looks at basketball games through the prism of graph theory
Are Paywalls Working?
The successful paywall for Andrew Sullivan’s blog may have everyone rethinking free content