Jon Gertner

Leslie Dewan

For throwing salt on traditionally nuclear technology.

Klaus Lackner Is Pulling CO2 Out of Thin Air

Stopping global warming has long been an environmentalist’s fantasy. Not anymore.

NASA’s Chief Scientist On The Possibility Of Finding Alien Life: “It’s Going To Be Mind-blowing”

Ellen Stofan explains how the space agency is thinking big as it looks to the future.

Cree

For its speed and ingenuity in becoming the leading consumer LED brand in the U.S.

What’s Lurking In Your Microbiome? Possibly, A Cure For Disease

Startups are harnessing the trillions of bacteria inside us to eradicate diabetes, obesity, arthritis, and more.

We’re Running Out Of Water

It’s a global problem–but the greatest minds in Silicon Valley don’t seem interested in fixing the problem. Why not?

This Home Makes All Its Own Energy. Will We All Soon Be Living In One?

It’s a grand experiment in “net zero” living–and it’s working. But we can’t move in just yet.

Inside Toyota And Tesla’s Duel to Fuel the Cars of the Future

The collapse of the automakers’ partnership points to the next crucial car-world debate: batteries vs. hydrogen fuel cells.

Behind GE’s Vision For The Industrial Internet Of Things

CEO Jeff Immelt is pushing to turn jet engines, locomotives, and other giant machines into data-spewing computers.

Julia Greer

The Truth About Google X: An Exclusive Look Behind The Secretive Lab’s Closed Doors

Space elevators, teleportation, hoverboards, and driverless cars: The top-secret Google X innovation lab opens up about what it does–and how it thinks.

Medtronic’s Symplicity And The Complexity Of Healthcare Innovation

Even the most promising products can fail.

Alta Bicycle Share

GE

Why Companies Are Lining Up To Test Golf Clubs (And Other Products) On The Space Station

After 13 years in orbit, the International Space Station is finding new life as a near-weightless lab for private enterprise.

How Philips Altered The Future Of Light

Eight surprising lessons in innovation from Philips’s 50-year exploration of LEDs.

Philips

iHub

New Life For The Bell Labs Building Where Cellphones Were Born

Once the center of the tech-innovation universe, New Jersey’s old Bell Labs building now sits abandoned. But not for long. A look at the plan to save it.