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The Next Generation of Mars Rovers Could Be Smaller Than Grains of Sand
Why send truck-sized rovers when you can send nanobots?
2012 Invention Awards: An Assisted-Walking Device That Senses Your Step
An insole restores communication between the brain and injured feet
Video: What We Saw at the World Science Festival’s Innovation Square
A robot petting zoo, complete with a flying robo-bird, plus the world's lightest material and an algorithmic dance-off
What We Saw at the World Science Festival: Quantum Levitation
An unearthly demonstration of the eternal feud between superconductivity and magnetism
Q&A: Creating the Mars of John Carter
Director Andrew Stanton and production designer Nathan Crowley talk about Mars, John Carter, and building a 100-year-old science fiction universe
The Newest Revolutions in Metamaterials Bring Invisibility Within Reach
The science of stealth has long been a matter of fading into already obscure environments—the night sky, say, or the...
Will We Soon Be Able to Fire Laser Beams From Our Eyes?
By day, Seok-Hyun Yun and Malte Gather are physicists at Massachusetts General Hospital. But at night, for the past four...
Point/Counterpoint: We Need a System of Internet IDs
It'll save us money and provide secure (yet optional) ways to do our online banking, healthcare, and taxes
What Could Possibly Go Wrong: Industrial Cyber-Sabotage
Stuxnet gives hackers a blueprint for sophisticated new malware
What Could Possibly Go Wrong: Genetically-Modified Mosquitoes
Genetically engineered mosquitoes could even spread genes to other insects
