Articles by Technology Review from September 2013

The new climate report largely reaffirms scientists claims.The latest report from the U.N.s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that scientists are more certain than ever that humans are ca...

The new climate report largely reaffirms scientists claims.The latest report from the U.N.s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that scientists are more certain than ever that humans are ca...

Experts from Facebook and genetics labs team up to help doctors make personalized predictions about their patients.On the ground floor of The Mount Sinai Medical Centers new behemoth of a research and...

A carbon nanotube computer processor is comparable to a chip from the early 1970s, and may be the first step beyond silicon electronics.For the first time, researchers have built a computer whose cent...

Clever apps might persuade people that they need a wrist-worn computer.The age ofwearable computingis upon us. Forget the debate over how capable or fashionable the first devices are, how popular they...

Sun Catalytix is making a new type of flow battery that could store hours worth of energy on the grid.Startup Sun Catalytix is designing a flow battery for grid energy storage that uses custom materia...

The security researcher Bruce Schneier, who is now helping the Guardian newspaper review Snowden documents, suggests that more revelations are on the way.Bruce Schneier, a cryptographer and author on ...

A technique called deep learning could help Facebook understand its users and their data better.Facebook is set to get an even better understanding of the 700 million people who share details of their...

Getting people to eat well and exercise is the biggest unsolved problem in health care.Esther Dyson is a former reporter and Wall Street analyst who has set out to tackle what she calls the most inter...

It used to be too dangerous to have a person work alongside a robot. But at a South Carolina BMW plant, next-generation robots are changing that.BMW has taken a huge step toward revolutionizing the ro...

Researchers are using smart helmets and imaging to study brain injury risk in young football players over a season.The end-of-August announcement that the National Football League will pay $765 millio...

To meet emissions goals, the U.K. is reluctantly turning to fracking of shale gas.Proposed U.K. government policies to encourage hydrofracking of natural gas ignited a firestorm of protest this summer...

New research indicates that chemical fingerprints can make positive matches between batches of sarin.U.S. researchers say the same methods used to confirm the presence of the deadly nerve agent sarin ...

Eric Topol is on a mission to get health care out of the mess its in.I visited cardiologist Eric Topol at the Scripps Green Hospital in La Jolla, California, one day this summer. Hed had a busy mornin...

Flexible, efficient solar cells will make solar power cheaper....

Samsungs new smart watch may be the most polished effort yetbut that doesnt mean itll be a hit.At events held simultaneously in Berlin and New York, Samsung announced three new products, including a s...

Silicon chips with optical technology allow a new form of superfast data connection.Intel hopes to make computing far more efficient by introducing a technology that replaces conventional copper data ...

NASA launches a moon satellite this week that will test ultrafast optical data transmission.A new communications technology slated for launch by NASA this Friday will provide a record-smashing 600 meg...

Technology is the primary cause of our skyrocketing health-care costs. It could also be the cure.Moores Law predicts that every two years the cost of computing will fall by half. That is why we can be...