Silicon has been very good to us. It has given us Angry Birds and virtual protests we can participate in from the comfort of our home, but it may be time to enter the Age of the Biological Computer.…

http://kids.discovery.com/activities/science-experiments/light-up-lifesa... wintergreen oil in the candy, the ultraviolet light is simply converted to a more visible type

In honor of the upcoming National Robotics Week (April 5-13, 2014), I’ve created “CockroachBot” based on my Snap Circuits programmable robot I designed for last year’s robotics week. CockroachBot…

Revelations of the extent of American government surveillance into the private lives of both the American public and foreign leaders worldwide has shone a spotlight on the lack of security in digital…

Our bones are a matrix of minerals and other substances, including living cells, though most people don't think of them that way and assume bones are 'natural' —  but nature can be coaxed to do…

Collectors,museums and art dealers face a lot of problems determining origin, authenticity and discovery of forgery of artwork. Experts are easily fooled - but science, not so much. They get help…

There’s a popular YouTube video featuring mathematician Edward Frenkel where he describes how the NSA hacked our emails. It is a backdoor into the National Institute of Standards and Technology…

By now, almost everyone understands computers and that current technologies for writing, storing, and reading information are either charge-based or spin-based. Spin-based devices operate on the…

In my previous article DC Versus AC I discussed how a diode can be used as a rectifier to convert alternating current (AC) into direct current (DC) because the diode allows current to flow in one…

New battery management technology could boost Li-ion capacity by 40%, quadruple recharging cycles Long-life laptop battery the tech industry doesn’t want you to have ? Fed up with the dwindling…