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Wind and solar power are ramping up quickly, but the world’s demand for electricity is growing much faster.
Great technology companies often begin when ambitious people create change they want to see.
Medical technologies are too rarely evaluated with scientific rigor.
Africa’s technology community will thrive only by facing up to the continent’s fundamental problems.
Organovo’s 3-D printer creates human tissues that could help speed drug discovery.
A toy ball moves under the command of a smart-phone application.
The CEO of Dropbox explains why simplicity is so hard to achieve.
Every January, up to 150,000 people swarm the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where they mainly see salesmen and models touting slick gadgets under bright lights. Most visitors miss the surprises that can be found in a plain corner called the “International Gateway,” where manufacturers from Asia display unglamorous components and offbeat items.Photographs by Gregg Segal
Young stars dominate the technology headlines. But outside the Internet, research shows, innovators are actually getting older as complexity rises.
17-year-old Laura Deming doesn’t drive and can’t vote. Is now her chance to change the world?
For a new generation of technology company founders, money is the easy part.
As it readies for an IPO, the social network puts engineers, not HR, in charge of a global search for young programmers.
The technology of lenses has made art richer and more meaningful for hundreds of years. A Gerhard Richter retrospective shows Germany’s most famous artist responding to the camera over a lifetime of painting.
The path computing has taken wasn’t inevitable. Even today’s machines rely on a seminal insight from the scientist who cracked Nazi Germany’s codes.
A nanoscale pattern could lead to more efficient solar cells
A coating based on candle soot sheds oil and water
An experimental form of data storage can now be made cheaply using conventional manufacturing methods
A newly discovered hormone mimics the effects of exercise
One writer wondered if cows’ milk was the key to human longevity.
