Scientists have been trying to develop room-temperature superconductors—materials that conduct electrons with zero resistance, and do so without cumbersome, energy...Scientific American From ACM News | December 9, 2013
The job of a materials scientist—to warp matter into new and useful forms—has historically involved a ridiculous amount of guesswork.Scientific American From ACM News | December 2, 2013
Computers as we know them have are close to reaching an inflection point—the next generation is in sight but not quite within our grasp.Scientific American From ACM Opinion | November 14, 2013
The biggest breakthroughs in how we make things lie not in the technology to manipulate materials but in the materials themselves.Scientific American From ACM Opinion | November 5, 2013
Rugged individualists aside, many people find themselves increasingly connected not just to one another but also to the devices that make those connections possible...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | October 15, 2013
When the soccer video game FIFA 14 went on sale last week, it boasted a ball that, at long last, could sail smartly through the air.Scientific American From ACM News | September 30, 2013
Have rover, need payload. That's the state of things for NASA, which is planning to launch its next rover to Mars in 2020.Scientific American From ACM News | September 27, 2013
Ella Gale, one of the young researchers attending the 1st Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Germany, says her interest is unconventional computing. Scientific American From ACM TechNews | September 25, 2013
In the three months since Edward Snowden began his whistle-blowing campaign against the National Security Agency (NSA) the former government contractor has exposed...Scientific American From ACM News | September 23, 2013
A bill working its way through Congress is an opportunity to update an unfair, outmoded cybersecurity lawScientific American From ACM News | August 19, 2013
As computers have matured over time, the human brain has no way of keeping up with silicon's rapid-fire calculating abilities.Scientific American From ACM News | August 8, 2013
Since the dawn of the Web and ubiquitous free e-mail services over the past two decades, the need to secure personal information online has been evident but often...Scientific American From ACM News | July 15, 2013
Our homes will get a lot smarter in the coming years, allowing us to use a smartphone to manage an integrated system of appliances and other electronics from any...Scientific American From ACM News | July 2, 2013
When Hurricane Katrina ravaged the U.S. Gulf Coast in 2005, Facebook was the new kid on the block. There was no Twitter for news updates, and the iPhone was not...Scientific American From ACM News | June 12, 2013
Google has stoked our collective imagination via relentless promotion of its Google Glass wearable computer in recent months.Scientific American From ACM Opinion | May 2, 2013
Sensors originally designed to alert pilots of single-engine planes to the location of nearby aircraft are instead finding a military role locating unseen battle...Scientific American From ACM News | April 30, 2013
In a viral YouTube video from October 2011 a one-year-old girl sweeps her fingers across an iPad's touchscreen, shuffling groups of icons.Scientific American From ACM News | April 26, 2013