There's Water on the Moon, but Making Use of it Won't be Easy
The lunar soil is as wet as desert sand, but that's more moisture than expected
Giving Small Robots New Ways to Move
The Coordinated Robotics Lab at UCSD uses automatic feedback control to make small robots that can overcome large obstacles
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Rebuild Cities with Water in Mind
Water is essential to life, but sometimes a threat as well.
Chiptunes Are Popping
Chiptunes geeks hack video-game systems into music machines
Skype's Legal Entanglements Explained
Still scratching your head about who sued who and why in the continuing Skype saga? The answers are at hand.
Saudi Arabia's KAUST Visualizes the Brain
KAUST, the Kingdom's new tech university, bets big on data display.
Plastic Surgery vs. Face Recognition Software
Face recognition software is thrown off by effects of cosmetic surgery (ditto, hats and wigs)
Powering a Streetcar Revival
Hydrogen power is one way to untether trolleys
E-bracadabra
Technology is magical, and now more than ever, magic is technological
Manipulating Clouds from the Ground
Cloud seeding is partly a science, partly a black art.