Articles by Technology Review from June 2013

The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv preprint servermpossibility of Spontaneously Rotating Time-Crystals: A No-Go Theorem...

A roundup of the most interesting stories from other sites, collected by the staff at MIT Technology Review.ISSUE 81: The Revolution Will Be Solarized The name says it all: the Sunbelt of the United S...

Genetic material could persist for as many as one million years, predict scientists.Small pieces of a horses foot bone that were frozen for approximately 700,000 years in the Yukon Territory of Canada...

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Solar and wind power could reduce fossil fuel consumption in shipping....

The International Energy Agency predicts that by 2016 more electricity will come from renewables than from natural gas.Wind and solar power keep getting cheaper, and thats encouraging their adoption e...

The International Energy Agency predicts that by 2016 more electricity will come from renewables than from natural gas.Wind and solar power keep getting cheaper, and thats encouraging their adoption e...

The impact of proposed carbon-emissions regulations on energy innovation could be small without direct R&D funding.This week, when President Obama announced his new plan to address climate change ...

Accelerators are churning out too many startups, but its a good thing, Andreessen-Horowitz cofounder says.Startup accelerators like Y Combinator (see The Startup Whisperer) and 500 Startups are creati...

Y Combinator founder Paul Graham says venture capitalists should listen to entrepreneurs complaints.Paul Graham, founder of the influential startup accelerator Y Combinator, gave some advice to ventur...

A San Francisco company called Planet Labs aims to launch 28 mini-satellites that will provide frequent snapshots of Earth.A San Franciscobased company called Planet Labs announced plans yesterday to ...

A San Francisco company called Planet Labs aims to launch 28 mini-satellites that will provide frequent snapshots of Earth.A San Franciscobased company called Planet Labs announced plans yesterday to ...

When you read the profile of a potential partner, how do you know its true? Researchers at Xerox PARC think they have the answer...

When you read the profile of a potential partner, how do you know its true? Researchers at Xerox PARC think they have the answer...

When you read the profile of a potential partner, how do you know its true? Researchers at Xeroxs PARC think they have the answer...

Wireless vehicle networks could make driving safer and more efficient, but the cost of deployment will be significant.The phrase vehicle-to-vehicle communications might currently mean little more than...

An SRI project aims to build a powerful predictive assistant for office workers.In a small, dark, room off a long hallway within a sprawling complex of buildings in Silicon Valley, an array of massive...

Boston may overtake Silicon Valley at the top of the biotech heap.Is Boston going to pass Silicon Valley as the ground zero for the biotechnology industry? Some people think it might....

The mobile computers killing the PC will themselves be replaced as computing becomes embedded into the world around us.The personal computer is dying. Its place in our lives as the primary means of co...

Security company Lookout starts a campaign to eradicate the many apps that pester users with intrusive adsAs mobile computers have become more common, criminals have begun to explore ways to profit fr...

The explanation of the mysterious barren circles that form in the middle of fertile grasslands hints that similar circles may show up in other systems, say complexity scientists...

Security company Lookout starts a campaign to eradicate the many apps that pester users with intrusive adsAs mobile computers have become more common, criminals have begun to explore ways to profit fr...

The president presents a plan to use the EPA to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.On a hot day in Washington, DC, President Obama rolled up his sleeves and dabbed his forehead while ...

Prototype headlights shown last year that avoid reflecting light off raindrops can now handle swirling snowflakes...

A new class of imaging device from Bell Labs can take more than one view of a scene at the same time or use the same data to create a single high-resolution image...

Researchers say that over a third of iPhone apps still access a devices unique identifier.In 2011, Apple advised that iPhone and iPad apps should stop logging the unique identifiers of users devices, ...

A startup has developed software and smartphone tools for cataloguing the trees in forests.In a small office near Central Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, just across from Starbucks, is a small sta...

Obama will propose a climate plan, but his options are limited without congressional support.President Obama is expected to announce a series of measures to reduce carbon emissions, help the United St...

Using computers to virtually test new molecules could lead to new types of solar cells.Using donated computing power and drawing on the theory of quantum mechanics, Harvard researchers have computatio...

Internet security expert publishes first evidence that Iran uses internet throttling to prevent the spread of information during periods of public unrest...

Obama will propose a climate plan, but his options are limited without congressional support.President Obama is expected to announce a series of measures to reduce carbon emissions, help the United St...

Obama will propose a climate plan, but his options are limited without congressional support.President Obama is expected to announce a series of measures to reduce carbon emissions, help the United St...

The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv preprint serverAn Overview of the Research on Texture Based Plant Leaf Classification...

A roundup of the most interesting stories from other sites, collected by the staff at MIT Technology Review.How Junk Food Can End Obesity An interesting take on how science is engineering healthy junk...

Battery swapping is fast, but the economics are still uncertain.For a dose of how Elon Musk is selling the vision of electric vehicles, check out this video of the new Tesla swapping station in action...

Solar manufacturers are eager to implement several new technologies that could make solar power cheaper, and the panels easier to make.Solar panel installations continue to grow quickly, but the solar...

Obama will propose a climate plan, but his options are limited without congressional support.President Obama is expected to announce a series of measures to reduce carbon emissions, help the United St...

In a race to stay relevant and keep up with newcomers, Instagram releases its own video feature.On Thursday, Instagram cofounder Kevin Systrom announced an update that will allow users to shoot and sh...

Scientists have imaged the anatomy of an entire human brain at unprecedented resolution.A new resource will allow scientists to explore the anatomy of a single brain in three dimensions at far great...

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MakerBot founder Bre Pettis, the poster child for mainstream 3-D printing, merges his company with an industrial printing giant.The Brooklyn-based 3-D printer startup MakerBot Industries just got a li...

The discovery of a law governing the growth of cities means that future urban populations can now be forecast in advance...

Kenyan tech leaders say the high-flying Internet balloons may not be a realistic networking solution for their continent.Googles latest pet project, called Loon, is meant to deliver the Internet to ne...

A thin probe of carbon nanotubes can measure small electrical changes inside a neuron.A tiny spear made of carbon nanotubes can probe the internal electrical activity of a single neuron, giving resear...

Tesla is set to announce a way to make recharging its electric vehicles faster than filling up a gas tank.Tomorrow Tesla Motors will announce a way to charge its Model S electric vehicle faster than...

Facebook may be going a step too far by adding unsolicited gift card suggestions to peoples status updates.A friend of mine is leaving her job and starting a fantastic new one, and so she announced it...

The unexpected behaviour of crowds at one of Europes largest music festivals should help organisers plan future events, say researchers...

Wireless carrier AT&T is rolling out free gadget-charging stations all over NYC....

Google is demanding that a secret intelligence court allow it to share some details about surveillance requests for user data.Last week, negative press in the wake of recent leaks about NSA surveillan...

LIDAR technology continues to reveal archeological evidence of urbanizationAirborne laser scanning has revealed the remnants of a vast urban structure in the vicinity of Angkor Wat, a famous temple in...

Research shows how much the NSA could glean from call records, and why efforts to downplay the significance of such metadata are misleading.Of all the recent revelations about the National Security Ag...

Research into wild animal locomotion could inform the design of future robots.Biologically inspired robots could prove useful for all sorts of tasks (see Just What Soldiers Need: A Bigger Robotic Dog)...

Inside the evolution movement that wants machines to replace people.The day before travelling to New York City to attend Global Future 2045, a gathering last weekend of so-called transhumanists who ho...

Coat a layer of graphene with chlorophyll and you get a remarkably sensitive light-activated switch, say physicists...

Beyond the drilling rigs, the fossil-fuel industry spreads far and wide across the land....

In transforming the way cacao farmers supply manufacturers, a San Francisco startup is creating a superb product.You may have seen little squares of Tcho chocolate in their brightly colored wrappers d...

Plastics have become synonymous with waste, but they can be made sustainably.There can be little doubt that plastic materials have dramatically improved everything from clothing to travel to communica...

Compact unmanned aerial vehicles will perform many valuable jobs if aviation regulations allow them to operate commercially.I dont use the word drone, which originally referred to remotely piloted pla...

Techniques that can soften or erase memories raise many ethical questions.It should go without saying that the ability to selectively erase memories would be a very useful one to have. A person suffer...

From different angles, two of our feature stories explore the role of humans in an automated world.While we await Immanuel Kants perpetual peace, there will be wars; and if the president of the United...

A 1938 article anticipated the opportunitiesand challengesof harnessing the suns energy.Excerpted from Converting Sunlight into Power, from theJune 1938 issue of Technology Review....

Zeroing in on black carbon may slow the effects of greenhouse-gas emissions.Cutting our overall use of fossil fuels has proved a daunting challenge, but it might be possible to get some relief from th...

The Media Labs Neri Oxman, PhD 10, wants designers not just to dream up new products but to change the way theyre made.On the ground floor of MITs Media Lab, a most unusual cocoon is being construct...

Economists have long used game theory to make sense of the world. Now engineers and computer scientists are using it to rethink their work.You and an accomplice in a major heist have been nabbed by th...

New faculty member Amos Winter, SM 05, PhD 11, tackles the crazy hard engineering challenges of the developing world.Walk into Amos Winters lab on any given day and you might find the assistant profes...

A tale of Cold War jittersOn August 12, 1948, Senator Bourke Hickenlooper learned something that horrified him: the details of the American nuclear program were about to be spilled to a roomful of for...

Study finds ancient North Africa was much more lush than previously thoughtToday the Sahara is a vast desert spanning more than 3.5 million square miles in northern Africa. But as recently as 6,000 ye...

Randomized study sheds light on the effect of expanding health-care coverageEnrollment in Medicaid helps lower-income Americans overcome depression, get proper treatment for diabetes, and avoid catas...

Study of anesthesia-induced brain-wave patterns could help doctors make sure patients dont wake up during operationsSince the mid-1800s, doctors have used drugs to induce general anesthesia in patien...

MIT researchers have decoded the complex structure that gives bones their strengthA team of MIT researchers led by civil engineer and materials scientist Markus Buehler has finally unraveled the struc...

Metastatic cells move through tight spaces more quickly than ordinary cellsMost cancer deaths are caused by metastatic tumors, which break free from the original cancer site and spread throughout the...

Emissionless method could curb a major source of greenhouse gasesConventional steelmaking may be the worlds leading industrial source of greenhouse gases. But a new process developed by MIT researcher...

The patient who transformed the science of memorySuzanne Corkin was a graduate student at McGill University when she met a young man named Henry Molaison in 1962. She spent several days giving him mem...

Zeroing in on black carbon may slow the effects of greenhouse-gas emissions.Cutting our overall use of fossil fuels has proved a daunting challenge, but it might be possible to get some relief from th...

Inside the evolution movement that wants machines to replace people.The day before travelling to New York City to attend Global Future 2045, a gathering last weekend of so-called transhumanists who ho...

Aetna sees cost savings in helping people track their health and fitness.A smartphone app that launches this week gives the health insurance company Aetna access to detailed user health-tracking dat...

Aetna sees cost savings in helping people track their health and fitness.A smartphone app that launches this week from the health insurance company Aetnahelps users monitor their own health-tracking d...

New tech will lower the cost of carbon capture, but the sheer scale needed to reduce emissions prevent it from being a panacea.Ive recently reported on a handful of ways that researchers are trying to...

An environmentally-friendly way of making vanillin from the lignin in wood pulp could change the economics of this flavouring industry...

Millions of people use the tool Ghostery to block online tracking technologyfew realize that it feeds data to the ad industry.Whenever discussion starts about how to hide from the tracking code that f...

A neuroscientist who has anguished over the terrors in her own familys history says people might soon erase the trauma from bad memories by taking a pill or talking to a therapist at just the right t...

New tech will lower the cost of carbon capture, but the sheer scale needed to reduce emissions prevent it from being a panacea.Ive recently reported on a handful of ways that researchers are trying to...

The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv preprint serverWhirling Skirts And Rotating Cones...

A novel software tool could make it far easier to bring new energy storage technologies to market.If were ever going to run the world on intermittent renewable energy, were going to need to change the...

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A roundup of the most interesting stories from other sites, collected by the staff at MIT Technology Review.The Secret War This account of General Keith Alexanders cyberwar efforts paints a valuable b...

Eschewing grit and realism for creativity and simplicity, Minecraft has heralded a new era in which bedroom programmers can bypass publishers and still see their creations become global hits.All video...

Researchers are designing a dialysis-like machine that could identify and remove pathogens responsible for an often lethal blood infection.Taking advantage of recent advances in nanotechnology and mic...

The decision should reduce uncertainty in the field of molecular diagnostics.The Supreme Court gave a mixed ruling on the issue of human gene patents on Thursday, deciding that while DNA found natural...

The decision should reduce uncertainty in the field of molecular diagnostics.The U.S. Supreme Court gave a mixed ruling on the issue of human gene patents on Thursday, deciding that while DNA found na...

The social network between characters in Homers Odyssey is remarkably similar to real social networks today. That suggests the story is based, at least in part, on real events, say researchers...

MIT Technology Reviews first mobile-focused conference featured some big names and big news.Last night we wrapped up our first Mobile Summit, a two-day event dedicated to an incredibly important and e...

A biomarker could cut the trial-and-error of finding a patients best therapy.A brain scan could one day help doctors prescribe the best treatment to patients with major depressive disorder. In JAMA Ps...

Research could make persistent computer-vision more feasible, and improve your smartphones battery life.The digital cameras in smartphones, tablets, and devices like Google Glass are increasingly powe...

Techniques developed at MIT and Pacific Northwest National Lab could make it more affordable to burn fossil fuels without releasing carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.Capturing carbon dioxide from smok...

From millions of random mutations, scientists identify a virus that could make gene therapy for inherited retinal diseases safer and more effective.A new delivery mechanism shuttles gene therapy deep ...

Factual, a company that provides location data on places, thinks more apps could make use of its information.Many smartphone apps have terms and conditions that allow them to collect location data fro...

Physicists have worked out how to cloak a region of space from the quantum world, thereby shielding it from reality itself...

Automation and advanced digital technologies are eliminating the need for people in a growing number of jobs. Weve survived severe technological changes before, but this time it might be different: ar...

Early investors in Bitcoin got rich. Now they are the cryptocurrencys most powerful gatekeepers.Every time you spend bitcoins to buy a drink at Evr, a swanky bar in midtown Manhattan that accepts the ...

The U.S. government should allow disclosure of how often NSA taps into user data, argue Facebook, Microsoft and GoogleFacebook, Google and Microsoft today made public calls on the U.S. government to a...

The U.S. government should allow disclosure of how often NSA taps into user data, argue Facebook, Microsoft, and GoogleFacebook, Google, and Microsoft today called publicly on the U.S. government to a...

The U.S. government should allow disclosure of how often NSA taps into user data, argue Facebook, Microsoft, and GoogleFacebook, Google, and Microsoft today called publicly on the U.S. government to a...

Automation is reducing the need for people in many jobs. Are we facing a future of stagnant income and worsening inequality?Given his calm and reasoned academic demeanor, it is easy to miss just how p...

Pebble, the smartwatch upstart, is charging ahead while computing giants mull their product plans.In April 2012, Eric Migicovsky launched a Kickstarter campaign for Pebble, the smartwatch that went on...

Pebble, the smart watch upstart, is charging ahead while computing giants mull their product plans.In April 2012, Eric Migicovsky launched a Kickstarter campaign for Pebble, the smart watch that went ...

The strong glass that is used in 1.5 billion consumer electronic devices worldwide could soon help make more fuel-efficient, quieter cars.Cornings durable Gorilla Glass is used in the displays of iPho...

By purchasing crowd-powered navigation app Waze, Google keeps it out of Apples clutches...

Why Google fears the totalitarian connotations of the buzzword big data.Spies with the U.S. National Security Agency are hoovering up huge amounts of digital data on Americans, including records of ev...

U.S. companies that pass data from European Union citizens to the NSAs PRISM surveillance program could be breaching the E.U.s data-protection laws.Internet companies that pass data to the National S...

Big, cheap invisibility cloaks are suddenly beginning to emerge thanks to some simple optical short cuts that physicists have discovered...

Facebooks new interface for smartphones is at odds with how the world uses computers....

With its new mobile OS, Apple looks to longtime design head Ive, and takes a few cues from competitors.For Apple, theres a lot riding on iOS 7, the newest version of its mobile software and the first ...

With its new mobile OS, Apple looks to longtime design head Jonathan Ive, and takes a few cues from competitors.For Apple, theres a lot riding on iOS 7, the newest version of its mobile software and t...

The strong glass that is used in 1.5 billion consumer electronic devices worldwide could soon help make more fuel-efficient, quieter cars.Cornings durable Gorilla Glass is used to make screens on iPho...

A surge in oil and gas production from shale rock has transformed energy in the United States, helping reverse declines in oil production and prompting a massive shift from coal to natural gas electri...

A surge in oil and gas production from shale rock has transformed energy in the United States, helping reverse declines in oil production and prompting a massive shift from coal to natural gas electri...

The Chinese Quantum Science Satellite will launch in 2016 and aim to make China the first space-faring nation with quantum communication capability...

Another take on the biggest innovations to pay attention to.Putting together this publications annual 10 Breakthrough Technologies list, which comes out each spring, is a long and involved process. So...

Developers complain that by banning facial recognition for Glass, Google is hindering doctors, police, and others.The popular rap on Google Glass facial-recognition technology is that its a tool for c...

Medical centers are testing new, friendly ways to reduce the need for office visits by extending their reach into patients homes.Most patients who enter the gym of the San Mateo Medical Center in Cali...

Another take on the biggest innovations to pay attention to.Putting together this publications annual 10 Breakthrough Technologies list, which comes out each spring, is a long and involved process. So...

The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv preprint serverBig Pharma, Little Science? A Bibliometric Perspective On Big Pharmas R&D Decline...

The founders of Google and Facebook say the NSAs access to Verizon call records is too broad.In online posts today the leaders of Google and Facebook both said they didnt know anything about the Natio...

The founders of Google and Facebook say the NSAs access to Verizon call records is too broad.In online posts today the leaders of Google and Facebook both said they didnt know anything about the Natio...

The same big U.S. Internet companies that reportedly handed over data wholesale to the NSA have been promising compliance with tough EU privacy standards.Most European nations have long had stronger p...

Privacy advocates have warned for years about the kinds of surveillance revelations that were aired this week.Of the two big U.S. government surveillance projects that came to light this week, the one...

A roundup of the most interesting stories from other sites, collected by the staff at MIT Technology Review.The Great VC Coin Rush: At the Bitcoin Convention There has been lots of coverage, from us a...

How drones made it easy for Americans to kill a particular person anywhere on the planet.Editors Note: This story relies upon anonymous sources who could not have spoken on the record without prosecut...

Soft contact lenses could display information to the wearer and provide continuous medical monitoring.For those who find Google Glass indiscreet, electronic contact lenses that outfit the users cornea...

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Facebook is simplifying its ad formats, which could mean less annoying targeted ads are in the offing....

Cloud storage company Box introduces a novel way for business-centric mobile apps to make moneyAs more and more personal and business files are stored in cloud services, theres something of a war goin...

Cloud storage company Box introduces a novel way for business-centric mobile apps to make moneyAs more and more personal and business files are stored in cloud services, theres something of a war goin...

A common framework for analyzing and sharing genomic information could speed medical progress.Nearly 70 organizations in research, health care, and disease advocacy have agreed to take part in a globa...

What the NSA can do with Verizons data on phone calls depends on the other sources it can be combined with.One of the most interesting things about the data on phone calls being provided to the NSA by...

Mind-control optogenetics experiments in mice give new clarity to the neural circuitry that underlines repetitive behaviors.Two teams of researchers have pinpointed some of the neural circuitry that ...

Mind-control optogenetics experiments in mice give new clarity to the neural circuitry that underlines repetitive behaviors.Two teams of researchers have pinpointed some of the neural circuitry that u...

Outgoing FCC chairman, Harvard scholar make a pitch for private networks to aid public safety.As the Boston Marathon bombings unfolded, thousands of anxious people in the region pulled out their mobil...

Researchers work to develop passwords so secret that only your unconscious mind knows them.Some efforts to replace traditional letter-and-number passwords rely on gestures, wearable devices, or biomet...

An invisibility cloak that can be scaled to almost any size could be used to hide orbiting satellites, say US researchers...

Although we have more ways to entertain ourselves than ever, its proving hard to unseat television as the most popular mass medium....

Shapeways looks to software to bring down production costs and time to market in its 3-D printing factory in New York City.The East River waterfront of Queens, New York, once was a busy manufacturing ...

Open competitions can help find an optimal solution to a well-understood problem, but they are a poor way to innovate.Open innovation contests are gaining popularity with companies. The thinking is th...

The geography of our world is one of the great cultural invariants. There can hardly be the person on the planet who isnt familiar with the shape of the continents and how they dovetail together or of...

The three-dimensional structure of the local universe may one day become as familiar as our local geography thanks to a new generation of maps that reveal our neighbourhoods rich complexity and our pl...

As online education companies track students behavior and experiment with different delivery methods, assumptions about effectiveness are being challenged.In 2012, education startups attracted million...

As commercial uses of drones emerge, startups create software that could help the devices take flight.At Boeing, Jonathan Downey once worked on the development of the A160 Hummingbird, an unmanned hel...

Engineers seek a cheaper biodegradable polymer.Nearly all the plastics sold today come from petroleum and arent biodegradable. But researchers at Metabolix in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are genetically...

A Boston startup wants to bring smart analytics to critical care in order to help doctors spot and treat at-risk patients.The intensive care unit (ICU) is one of the most data-intense rooms in a hospi...

In new book, director of Citizen Lab tells of cyber forensic work to uncover cyber-espionage networksCyber warfare and espionage has been a top national security concern for several years, with senior...

The federal government is scrambling to deal with the rapid pace of IT-driven innovation in cars.The U.S. Department of Transportations first policy statement on the safety aspects of automation in ca...

The federal government is scrambling to deal with the rapid pace of IT-driven innovation in cars.The U.S. Department of Transportations first policy statement on the safety aspects of automation in ca...

Computer simulations show that, far from protecting coastal communities, islands can dramatically amplify the damaging impact of tsunamis...

Thad Starner explains why he thinks people will soon crave the ultrafast communication and killer existence that Google Glass makes possible.Few gadgets have generated as much excitement and hostility...

A battery made of cheap materials could store power when its windy for use when its not.Investors recently chipped in $15 million to fund battery startup EOS Energy Storage, a company that says its ba...

Thad Starner thinks people will soon crave the ultrafast communication that Google Glass makes possible.Few gadgets have generated as much excitement and hostility as Google Glass, a voice-activated c...

Gmails redesign, which filters automated e-mails and newsletters, is a marketers worst nightmare....

A new class of imaging device with no lens and just a single light sensitive sensor could revolutionise optical, infrared and millimetre wave imaging...

Samsung has made some bold claims about its 5G technology, but experts await published confirmation.When Samsung announced two weeks ago that it had prototyped a new wireless technology that could tra...

A way to check whether calculations have been tampered with could make cloud computing more reliable, and boost privacy.It is now common for all kinds of datafrom personal photos to business documents...

Happy? Sad? A startup called Beyond Verbal has developed technology that can understand how youre feeling just by listening to your voice.Yuval Mor might make it possible for your stereo to set the mo...

The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv preprint serverUltra-Weak Long-Range Interactions Of Solitons Observed Over Astronomical Distances...

An electronic WristBand will track people around Disney World; contactless wallets like Googles allow similar data collection in the real world....

A mirror ballthe most perfect test particle ever placed in orbitshould help Italian scientists measure an exotic effect predicted by general relativity...

A roundup of the most interesting stories from other sites, collected by the staff at MIT Technology Review.Anatomy of a Hack: How Crackers Ransack PasswordsThis is exceptionally geeky but smartly don...

A battery-swapping startups innovative system for charging electric vehicles suffered from overreach and limited consumer demand.Better Place, which raised some $850 million to build a charging infras...

A neuroscientist is getting a brain scan twice every week for a year to try to see how neural networks behave over time.Russell Poldrack, a neuroscientist at the University of Texas at Austin, is unde...

Robert McNamara epitomizes the hyper-rational executive led astray by numbers.Big data is poised to transform society, from how we diagnose illness to how we educate children, even making it possible ...

Better Place got it wrong: First make a car that people want, then build infrastructure to let them drive it cross-country.Tesla Motors, whose stock price has soared in recent weeks after a series of ...

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The Moto X phone will constantly monitor its position, motion, and more to track its owners activity. Will its battery life suffer?Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside spoke yesterday at the D11 conference ab...

A large genetic study finds gene variants with a subtle effect on scholastic achievement.A study published on Thursday in Science reports that certain gene variants can affect how long someone stays i...