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Your Robot Car Should Ignore You

Some research suggests that cars would be safer with no involvement from humans at all.

Virtual Reality Poses the Same Riddles as the Cosmic Multiverse

Alt-realities, whether cosmic or VR, would undermine the laws of physics.

March 7, 2017

Ingenious: Richard K. Miller

Engineering education.

September 22, 2016

The Perfect Wave Is Coming

Surfers have dreamt it—now engineers are delivering.

June 16, 2016

The Space Shuttle’s Last Launch

A portrait of the NASA program’s last days.

January 12, 2016

These Tricks Make Virtual Reality Feel Real

Realistic digital spaces need delusions as much as they need detail.

December 23, 2015

What Searchable Speech Will Do To You

Will recording every spoken word help or hurt us?

August 31, 2015

To Save California, Read “Dune”

Survival on a fictional desert planet has a lesson for the drought-stricken state.

June 1, 2015

The Brilliant “Baloney Slicer” That Started the Digital Age

How the hard disk drive married two very powerful concepts.

February 16, 2015