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How It Works: A Smarter Crash-Test Dummy
How the next generation of sensor-packed devices gather 70,000 data points per second to make cars safer for flesh-and-blood humans
How It Works: 3-D TV Without Glasses
How a series of thin near-vertical lines placed in front of a display can create a stereoscopic image
How It Works: The World’s Fastest Rollercoaster
To fling passengers at up to 149 miles per hour, Formula Rossa uses a propulsion system inspired by aircraft-carrier jet launcher
Plastic Beads Fight Cancer By Cutting Blood Flow
Pumping a body full of celldestroying chemicals sounds like a bad idea, but that’s what chemotherapy entails. The side effects...
How It Works: The Make-All 3-D Printer
The Objet Connex churns out complex objects by spraying eight million plastic droplets a second
The Energy Harvesting Gadgetry Of A Ducati-Beating Superbike
In November 2009, after spending three months recovering from a broken pelvis, Chris Yates, a motorcycle racer, engineer, and defense...
How It Works: The Light-Driven Computer
New integrated circuits use photons to build fast and extremely power-efficient supercomputers
Moveable Beasts: Tracking Winged Migrations To Predict Weather, Stop Disease, and Save Species
“The animals are telling us things,” said Martin Wikelski, hopping out of the cockpit of his Cessna. He had just...
Supergonomics: A New Keyboard Shifts Its Shape Automatically To Keep Wrists Healthy
About 20 years ago, the static split-and-tilt ergonomic keyboard became the wrist-friendly standard. Today, Smartfish Technologies, a company founded by...
Blood Simple: Improving Crime-Scene Analysis Techniques
The aftermath of violent crimes is nothing like what we see on TV, says Stephen Morgan, a forensic analytic chemist....
