Technology

"There is plenty of room at the bottom": An excerpt from a landmark 1959 lecture by physicist Richard Feynman is written on a sheet of copper with chlorine atoms.

Writing Data Onto Single Atoms, Scientists Store The Longest Text Yet

12:33pm July 28, 2016

by Mark H. Kim

With atomic memory technology, little patterns of atoms can be arranged to represent English characters, fitting the content of more than a billion books onto the surface of a stamp.

Trump's Cyber Comments Rouse The Democrats

5:31am July 28, 2016

As they bolster their case that Hillary Clinton is ready to be commander in chief, Democrats are seizing on Donald Trump's comments seemingly encouraging Russia to use cyber-espionage against Clinton.

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Michigan State University researchers Sunpreet Arora (left), Anil Jain (center) and Kai Cao (right) tried 3-D printed fingertips and 2-D fingerprint replicas on conductive paper to unlock a murder victim's phone, similar to one in the photo.

Police Use Fingertip Replicas To Unlock A Murder Victim's Phone

4:52pm July 27, 2016

by Riley Beggin

Michigan State University engineers tried 3-D-printed fingertips and special conductive replicas of the victim's fingerprints to crack the biometric lock on his Samsung Galaxy phone.

Tesla vehicles sit parked outside a new Tesla showroom and service center in Brooklyn, New York on July 5. The electric car company has come under increasing scrutiny following a crash of one of its electric cars while using the controversial Autopilot fe

Economy

Tesla's Ambitions Run Into The Realities Of Making Cars

5:48pm July 26, 2016

by Sonari Glinton

Tesla, which has roots in the tech world, is facing the challenge of becoming a successful car company amid scrutiny over its Autopilot technology.

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Solar-Powered Plane Completes Historic Circumnavigation

4:25pm July 26, 2016

The Solar Impulse 2 landed in Abu Dhabi, where its journey began 17 flights ago in March 2015. Alternating with another pilot, Bertrand Piccard flew around the world with no fuel.

Demonstrators held signs outside the Democratic National Convention on Monday in Philadelphia. On Sunday, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, announced she would step down as DNC chairwoman at the end of the party's convention, after thousands of internal DNC email

FBI Investigates Possible Russian Connection To Leaked DNC Emails

12:21pm July 26, 2016

by Rebecca Hersher

Hackers tied to two Russian intelligence agencies breached DNC computers in May, but whether the same hackers turned over thousands of emails to WikiLeaks is still under investigation.

When the Solar Impulse 2 airplane arrived in Spain from New York last month, it was greeted by the Spanish Eagle Patrol.

Sun-Powered Airplane Completes Historic Trip Around The World

11:07am July 26, 2016

by Bill Chappell

"This is not only a first in the history of aviation; it's before all a first in the history of energy," Swiss pilot Bertrand Piccard says. His plane flew more than 26,700 miles without using fuel.

World News

Faroe Islands Lack Google Street View But They Have Sheep View 360

9:23am July 26, 2016

The Google Street View project has sent cars to photograph places around the world, but it has never been to the Faroe Islands. Some islanders have found a unique way to put itself on the map.

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World News

Got To Catch Peter The Great And Ivan The Terrible

5:21am July 26, 2016

Think of it as an intellectual version of Pokémon Go. Moscow's City Hall will launch an app next month that allows players to catch long-dead historical figures on the streets of the capital.

Verizon Buys Yahoo's Core Assets

4:17pm July 25, 2016

by Aarti Shahani

Verizon is buying Yahoo's Internet business for $4.83 billion. It's not a carefully designed deal, but a quick sale of the troubled Internet pioneer to the highest bidder.