What would President Mitt do for science, technology, and startups in America? And would he use his missionary zeal to drive policy in these directions?READ»
Newt Gingrich's bold plans for a moon base dominated last night's GOP debate. If he did get elected president--it could happen!--here's how Newt's bigger take on innovation and science would change America.READ»
Math breakthroughs don't often capture the headlines--but MIT researchers have just made one that could lead to all sorts of amazing technological breakthroughs that in just a few years will touch every hour of your life.READ»
Want to grow crystals aboard the International Space Station? ScienceExchange is fast becoming the go-to marketplace for extreme laboratory environments. READ»
Since scientists released a rough draft of the human genome to the public in 2000, the impact of science and technology on medicine has been more salient than ever.READ»
The viral protest meme known as "Occupy Wall Street" is still going strong, and according to some provocative research to be published in PLoS One, it may never have reason to run out of steam. Why? Because "the 1%"--#OWS-speak for ...READ»
The viral protest meme known as "Occupy Wall Street" is still going strong, and according to some provocative research to be published in PLoS One, it may never have reason to run out of steam. Why? Because "the 1%"--#OWS-speak for ...READ»
You may never have heard of Hubble's constant, but everyone knows what "the big bang" theory is. (No, not the sitcom--the prevailing scientific model of our universe's origin, which states that everything blasted into hot, dense, ...READ»
Drug design is a scientific problem so important that researchers are willing to throw just about any kind of creative problem-solving approach at it, including tech-buzzwords like gamification and augmented reality. The latter ...READ»
Car-racing games are just about the only modern video games my 33-year-old hand-eye-coordination system can deal with anymore. Gears of War? Forget it, too complicated. Even Portal taxes my pathetic thumb control. But driving--that's ...READ»
You may have heard about the hunt for the Higgs boson (or "God particle," as it's sometimes called) going on at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland. Some think the elusive particle may never turn up, but now you can ...READ»
We need to get better at predicting the paths of hurricanes, because god knows we're only gonna see more of them as the 21st century wears on. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says that "anthropogenic warming [i.e., ...READ»
Organizing a group-bought gift for someone special can be a gigantic hassle. Enter Shareagift--which leverages social networking, online payments, and gift-suggestion algorithms--to sweeten the whole deal.READ»
No longer content to let the U.S. and Europe dictate the pace and direction of innovation, countries around the world are funding their own R&D to solve their own problems.READ»
Researchers have come up with software that results in centimeter accuracy in height data for GPS equipment. Sounds like a simple trick, but it could have big side effects.READ»
NASA has just contracted with commercial flyer Virgin Galactic to rocket technology into suborbital space--the first time the space agency's made a move like this. Welcome to the post-Shuttle era.READ»
A piece of lateral thinking by MIT boffins has turned a prototype robot fingertip "skin" into a hugely powerful, portable 3-D microscope that will have massive utility in biology, forensics, and other fields.READ»
