building China's Sky City will be world's tallest building by year's end By Colin Druce-McFaddenTue, 05/21/2013 - 4:42pm Sky City 1.jpg
drones Tornadoes may not be so deadly in the future, thanks to drones By Colin Druce-McFaddenTue, 05/21/2013 - 3:57pm tornadoes Three teams of students at Oklahoma State University have devised a way to potentially mitigate the unpredictable nature of tornadoes. More
Twitter Brazil's Sky TV lets viewers record shows via Twitter hashtags By Adario StrangeTue, 05/21/2013 - 3:11pm skyrc978dfasfdsa.jpg A television network in Brazil has figured out a way to harness the power of social media by allowing subscribers to use Twitter to record their favorite programs. More
aging A Mediterranean diet mortalizes cancer, keeps your brain young By Colin Druce-McFaddenTue, 05/21/2013 - 2:26pm EAT.jpg A pair of reports have shown that a Mediterranean diet is at once a cancer fighter and a brain booster. More
xbox Say hello to the Xbox One, Microsoft's next-gen game console By Raymond WongTue, 05/21/2013 - 1:45pm xbox-one-top-green.jpg
Artificial sun Swedish architects want to give Miami an artificial sun By Adario StrangeTue, 05/21/2013 - 12:53pm artsun2.jpg A team of architects wants to give Miami what could be its most gaudy yet, a giant artificial sun that doubles as a casino resort. More
Supercapacitors Teen invents way to charge phones in seconds By Megan WollertonTue, 05/21/2013 - 12:09pm eeshakhare1.png Eesha Khare won an Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award for her work in storing energy with capacitors. We need this. More
leap motion Leap Motion shows off interface controls on Windows 8 By Adario StrangeTue, 05/21/2013 - 11:24am lpmtionwndow9s987adf.jpg All the complaints over Windows 8 may evaporate once early adopters get a look at how the operating system functions using Leap Motion. More
IOTD Video of the Day: Learn the elements with periodic table tune By Megan WollertonTue, 05/21/2013 - 10:40am periodictablesong1.png Learn the periodic table in a jiffy with this catchy rendition from asapSCIENCE on YouTube. More
global warming Scientists say that global warming is slowing down By Robin BurksMon, 05/20/2013 - 4:55pm global-warming.jpg
LEDs LED dome structure built for 2013 Coachella-goers By Megan WollertonMon, 05/20/2013 - 4:07pm serrano1.png Héctor Serrano designed this quirky dome for the 2013 Coachella music festival. More
fitness LUMOback sensor nudges you to sit up straight By Alice TruongMon, 05/20/2013 - 3:23pm lumo-new copy.jpg Proving there's nothing technology can't solve, LUMOback uses tactile feedback to buzz and nudge you into better posture. More
facial recognition Video: The Matrix used to demo facial detection system By Adario StrangeMon, 05/20/2013 - 2:34pm MTRXcara907adfkjap.jpg A new kind of facial detection system can pick your face out of a crowd and tell if you're bored, distracted, or focused. More
gaming Video: Sony teases glimpses of PlayStation 4 console box By Adario StrangeMon, 05/20/2013 - 1:48pm ps4ts987afaka.jpg
vehicles Meet the 84 mpg Elio car, your wallet's new best friend By Colin Druce-McFaddenMon, 05/20/2013 - 1:03pm Elio-Motors-shot03.jpg This little car may not have a big footprint, but it's a three-wheeled monster amongst commuter cars. More
augmented reality AR glasses promise to make any place a gaming environment By Adario StrangeMon, 05/20/2013 - 12:16pm cstar0978af.jpg These augmented reality glasses could be the future of taking your interactive gaming experience out into the real world. More
avatars 'Robot doctors' now working at hospitals in North America By Colin Druce-McFaddenMon, 05/20/2013 - 11:29am RP Vita.jpg iRobot's telepresence robots are finally rolling out (literally) and ready to hospitals. More
IOTD Image of the Day: Skyscrapers piercing through Dubai's clouds By Megan WollertonMon, 05/20/2013 - 10:43am dubaiclouds1.png
3D printing Company focuses on green 3D printing By Travis AndrewsSun, 05/19/2013 - 7:22pm emergingobjects-k-bigpic.jpg Emerging Objects, a small Berkley-based company, wants to print environmentally-friendly buildings. More
Ants Forget viruses, look out for ants in your motherboard! By Travis AndrewsSun, 05/19/2013 - 2:56pm 56619-1024x723.jpg A species of ant known as "crazy ants" enjoys nesting in electronics, which, confusingly, isn't good for the ants or the electronics. More
history Mine-seeking dolphins make historic discovery By Travis AndrewsSun, 05/19/2013 - 2:34pm howell.jpg Two Naval dolphins discover a torpedo from the 19th century. Only one other Howell torpedo is known to exist. More
gaming What we know about the new Xbox: it'll have porn By Travis AndrewsSat, 05/18/2013 - 4:19pm Xbox_Logo9.jpg There haven't been many details released about the upcoming Xbox, but SugarDVD, the Netflix of porn, has announced that it'll be available for it. More
self-driving cars Teen takes Google's self-driving car and makes it $71,000 cheaper By Travis AndrewsSat, 05/18/2013 - 3:12pm ionut-budisteanu.jpg
robots Robot bartenders mix cocktails at Google I/O By Megan WollertonFri, 05/17/2013 - 5:39pm shakr1.png Makr Shakr, a giant robot bartending system, was unveiled this week at Google I/O in San Francisco. More
graphene Graphene brings the 2D computer to the horizon By Colin Druce-McFaddenFri, 05/17/2013 - 4:56pm bilayer-graphene-cvd-top.jpg Graphene is pretty cool all by itself, but when it has the right dance partner, it can do the impossible. More