Featured in march 2011
Could Scientists Really Create a Zombie Virus
Scientists Talk About the Possibility of a Zombie Virus
The Next Wave of 3-D Specs Look More Like Regular Glasses
Today’s high-def 3-D looks amazing, but those movie theater glasses are dull, dirty and wasteful. every year, tens of millions...
In-Car Device Handicaps Your Phone While You Drive to Keep Your Eyes On the Road
Mobile phones that vie for drivers’ attention accounted for 25,000 injuries and deaths in 2009. and new drivers are common...
The Bar Is Open: A Slot Machine That Pays In Drinks
Gambling just to win silver coins can get boring. Instead, play for a perfectly crafted cocktail. The BarBot was built...
How To Make An E-Book Reader Case
Follow these step by step instructions to make a cover for your Kindle or other E-reader out of an old...
Introducing Kestrel, The First Road-Ready Car Built Out Of Hemp
Marijuana’s fibrous cousin hemp has a long history with auto makers. in 1941 Henry Ford unveiled a car body made...
Scientists Revive Ancient Bacteria Trapped In Crystals
Inside this salt crystal, which weighs just two tenths of a gram, is an ancient ecosystem: 30,000-year-old bacteria and the...
A Cyborg Captures Photos To Highlight How Surveillance Has Permeated Our Society
Last December, New York University art professor and technophile Wafaa Bilal had a magnetic camera mount installed in his head...
March 2011: After Earth
The case for populating the universe--and how we'll get there
Unseen Currents: A Blind Oceanographer Chases Undersea Storms
On the Labrador Sea, the scientific crew of the research vessel Knorr hunts for underwater storms, sinks a two-mile mooring--and gathers clues to the planet's fate