technology

Design at the intersection of technology and biology

My daughter, my wife, our robot, and the quest for immortality

What happens when our computers get smarter than we are?

Why do ambitious women have flat heads?

How to control someone else's arm with your brain

How virtual reality can create the ultimate empathy machine

New video technology that reveals an object's hidden properties

How we're teaching computers to understand pictures

How to avoid surveillance ... with the phone in your pocket

How to land on a comet

Can we create new senses for humans?

I leapt from the stratosphere. Here's how I did it

The math behind basketball's wildest moves

What if 3D printing was 100x faster?

How we'll find life on other planets

Your kids might live on Mars. Here's how they'll survive

How a driverless car sees the road

The real story behind Archimedes' Eureka!

The sonic boom problem

Why are some people left-handed?

How does your smartphone know your location?

The moral bias behind your search results

Why do buildings fall in earthquakes?

Could a blind eye regenerate?

The evolution of the human eye

How to create cleaner coal

The wonderful and terrifying implications of computers that can learn

How better tech could protect us from distraction

Selfies and seeing ourselves -- one artist's look in the mirror

Why I make robots the size of a grain of rice

My simple invention, designed to keep my grandfather safe

Should you be able to patent a human gene?

See invisible motion, hear silent sounds

Happy maps

How we found the worst place to park in New York City -- using big data

Megatrends -- 5 tips on the art and science of trend tracking