Tech
- Computing
The data flood
Mountains of data drive advances in science, medicine and other fields. Here’s how they might affect you.
- Computing
Explainer: Data — waiting to become information
People want information. To get it, experts must sift through facts to find trends and other types of useful knowledge that has value.
- Computing
Explainer: Understanding the size of data
Data are beginning to accumulate in quantities of mammoth size.
- Animals
Mimicking mussels’ muscle
People who seek to get a grip on something — especially in wet environments — might want to take a lesson from some common shellfish. Among those who might benefit most: surgeons.
- Environment
Broadcom MASTERS: Meet the winners!
Young teens show off the research that won them a place in the national spotlight.
- Computing
Cyber warriors
Contests where teens compete to keep computers safe from hackers are helping to train and grow the next generation of cyber defenders.
- Brain
Restoring a sense of touch
A zap to a monkey’s brain fools the animal into thinking its finger has been touched. The findings point to a way for artificial fingers to communicate with the brain so that touch “feels” more real.
- Tech
A squishy speaker
Researchers have unveiled a see-through speaker that conducts electricity, is elastic like skin and vibrates like Jell-O.
- Chemistry
Cool Jobs: Repellent chemistry
Chemistry is just one way to repel water in nature. Structure, or the shape of things, is another. To excel at water repellency, the lotus leaf relies on both.
- Tech
Explainer: What is fracking?
Energy companies have found new use for hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas from shale rock.
- Tech
Sniffing for cancer
New surgical tool offers surgeons speedier diagnosis of tissues that are cancerous.
- Health & Medicine
Cool Jobs: Sports science
From soccer teams to the balance beam, scientists help athletes perform their best.
