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This high-tech gunsight could allow soldiers to shoot around corners, Matrix-style
Sep 17, 2021 10:59 AM
This 120-million-year-old bird may have been one of the first to shake its tail feathers
Sep 17, 2021 8:00 AM
Beams of light—not cables—are carrying the internet across a river in the Congo
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Apr 3, 2007
The Memory Hacker
Ted Berger has spent the past decade engineering a brain implant that can re-create thoughts. The chip could remedy everything from Alzheimer’s to absent-mindedness—and reduce memory loss to nothing more...
Mar 1, 2007
Coasting to Safety
NASA eyes a launchpad escape plan nearly as thrilling as the blastoff
Dec 19, 2006
Spin Me Up, Scotty
Forget rockets. All you need to launch a satellite is a sled and a giant magnetic slingshot
Dec 5, 2006
Missile-Proofing Runways
Homeland Security eyes high-power lasers for protecting commercial flights. Click inside for video
Sep 1, 2006
SPECIAL REPORTTechnology vs. Terrorism
Toxin sniffers, missile jammers, dirty-bomb detectors: Will a new security arsenal make us safer?