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By optimizing technologies currently on the market, cars will soon be unclogging traffic jams more efficiently than humans can. After the jam is cleared, control of the car is returned to the driver.
By storing quantum data, or qubits, inside a specially-made diamond, researchers have made a technological breakthrough that should allow for a host of real-world quantum applications.
Any doomsday prophet worth her salt will tell you about the coming water wars. But with the help of nanotechnology, desalination could become far less energy-intensive, i.e. cheaper.
The Higgs boson has helped scientists confirm that there exists a vast, though nearly invisible, field of energy without which all the Universe would be massless whizzing forces.
When NASA's newest Mars rover, Curiosity, touches down, scientists will study its landing technology to understand how suitable it would be for sending a manned mission to Mars.
While today's announcement of the Higgs' discovery is important, we should not elevate it to deity-status, says Dr. Dave Goldberg, professor of physics at Drexel University. It's just a particle.
The extreme weather events of this American summer--horrendous wildfires, oppressive heat waves, devastating droughts--are precisely what global warming looks like, say climate scientists.
Scientists at the CERN laboratories in Geneva, Switzerland, have announced they found strong evidence supporting the Higgs' existence, largely completing the Standard Model.
Before we celebrate our nation's freedom and independence, let us take a minute to support a struggle not-yet won: Internet freedom, which has become essential to participatory democracy.
New computer software that pours over crime data is better than police officers at predicting where future crimes will occur. And giving the work to computers allows cops to stay on the street.
While discovering the Higgs particle would bode well for the validity of the Standard Model, there are still lingering questions which the Large Hadron Collider has yet to find answers to.
Google's new glasses, which work like a hands-free smartphone, will continue to erase technological barriers to entering modern culture. Our storytelling ability stands to benefit greatly.
This week, physicists in Europe are expected to announce whether or not they have found the Higgs boson, which is the last undiscovered particle in the Standard Model of particle physics.
Canada's vast oil sands make it the world's second-most oil producing nation. But the benefits of greater wealth and energy independence must be weighed against the environment.
Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam recently told activists that class division has become the dominant form of social difficulties in America, and that the problem is getting worse.
It seems Afghanistan may go the way of Angola and the Congo, which have both suffered greatly as a result of material wealth coupled with unaccountable political institutions.
Globalization has entered its knowledge phase, where small companies can take advantage of computer software to leverage their limited resources throughout the world.
The Partido Revolucionario Institucional has returned to power after a twelve-year hiatus. Previously, it ruled the nation's politics for 70 years, allowing drug cartels to operate with impunity.
We do our society a great disservice by associating "having it all" with working long hours, whether at the office or at home--or both, says Boston University professor Ellen Shell.
As a solution to extreme color-blindness, one cybernetic device allows colors to be experienced as sounds, even the infrared spectrum. Should we get on the cyborg bandwagon?