Fastest Elevator: Hyundai Elevator’s Test Tower
Zooming up the test tower in Icheon, South Korea, with Young-Key Park
The Fastest Car: Bloodhound SSC
Richard Noble’s Bloodhound SSC will go faster than the speed of sound
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Fastest Bike: M5 Recumbent
There’s nothing laid-back about this two-wheel recumbent
Robots and Human Evolution
Biologist John Long is building robots that swim, eat, flee, and evolve
Facebook Knows Your Friends—Even if They’re Not on Facebook
Facebook can infer many things, even about people who deliberately stay away
Can One Chemical Be the Basis of All Morality?
A Techwise Conversation with Paul Zak, author of The Moral Molecule
How Accurate Is the Mason-Dixon Line?
The resolution of the 18th-century mapping is also a story of 20th-century technology
Airport Security: Everything You Know Is Wrong
In a new book, former TSA head Kip Hawley says we’re spending our money on all the wrong things
Transit of Venus: The Other Half of the Longitude Story
While Harrison was reinventing the clock, astronomers turned the heavens into a celestial timepiece
Alan Turing: Mathematical Biologist?
His biographer says Turing invented computer science, artificial intelligence, and mathematical biology