Featured in march 2011
Making the Connections: Reconstructing Biosystems From the Outside In
The human genome was just the start
Ask A Geek: How Do I Protect My Smartphone From Viruses?
According to some estimates, smartphones—packed with personal data, always connected, and largely unsecured—are now being infected with viruses at twice...
Revolutionary Robot-Sub Drifts While Tracking Microscopic Organisms
Phytoplankton are essential for almost all life on Earth; the minuscule photosynthetic marine organisms anchor the oceans’ food chain while...
Verizon’s 4G Network Is Powerful Enough For Our Enormous Media Appetite
The Trend Until now, bandwidth-hungry mobile apps often needed Wi-Fi to back up their connection. Now Verizon’s Long-Term Evolution (LTE)...
Matchbook-Sized Computer Creates Your Own In-Goggle Display
Never look down at your GPS again; instead, glance at a dashboard inside your goggles. Recon Instruments’s second-gen micro computer...
The Good Kind of Mass Destruction
Sometimes the safest way out of a dangerous situation is to burn everything to the ground. From a house full of explosives to 134 tons of Mexican marijuana, here are nine instances when the best solution is controlled calamity