Can the principles of topology help improve the world’s slums?
According to the United Nations (UN), nearly 1 billion of the 8 billion people in the world live in slums…
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The Patient Stays in the Picture
IN JUNE 2014, oncologist Fabrice Denis of the Jean Bernard Center, a cancer hospital in Le Mans, France, began approaching people…
Unbound and Out: Boosted by black holes, stars speed off, leaving clues behind
Space oddities may help reveal dark matter and other secrets in the Milky Way. Astronomer Warren Brown explains. In April,…
Rise of the botnets
Armies of zombie computers caused a lot of mayhem in 2018. In January, one cluster of infected, connected machines attacked…
Is climate change fanning megafires?
As wildfires grow in number and intensity, scientists look for the fingerprints of global warming The biggest fire in California…
Can self-driving cars make roads safer and less congested?
Pedestrians in downtown Miami one weekday last November might have noticed something unusual about the blue Ford Fusions threading their…
What’s the best way to build a molecular machine?
Some of the smallest, most useful machines known to science are the biological molecules that keep living things living. The…
Want to be a Mars Astronaut? You’ll Need the Proper Mindset
NASA is studying what personality an astronaut candidate needs to make the journey to Mars. Can we go to Mars…
The Blob: Fingerprint of climate change shows up in some extreme weather
In late 2013, something big and strange showed up in the Gulf of Alaska. Scientists called it “the Blob.” It…
What powers these electronics? We do!
Inspiration often comes from unusual sources. Nelson Sepúlveda knows this firsthand. He got his big idea for a new source…