Mapping the Human Brain
The U.S. BRAIN initiative will build the tools needed to model the human brain
Literature Is Hard to Remember—Compared to Facebook
And gossip is more memorable than the evening news, according to a new study
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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
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
iCandy: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Food to fuel, tissue regeneration, and Japanese wind power
Robots Are Not Killing Jobs, Says a Roboticist
A Georgia Tech professor of robotics argues automation is still creating more jobs than it destroys
Take a Tour of the National Ignition Facility
NIF's operations manager Bruno Van Wonterghem shows off the laser facility
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
Movea’s Data Fusion Transforms Sensors Into Indoor Navigation
Software company Movea helps app developers corral the data from the sensors that pack today’s mobile devices