On Beautiful Machines

Well-designed technologies are minimally complicated.

Letters

Letters from our readers.

Cheaper Diagnostics

Healing Bone with Stem Cells

Micromachines and the Cosmos

An Ocean of Worry

Lung-Cancer Breathalyzer

Atom-Thick Transistor

Good-Bye, Glare

The New New Thing Is Clean Energy

Nano Solution

New Face for Emoticons

Messy PCs

Finding Surprising Drug Synergy

Coal Reality Check

Spying on White Cells

Electricity from Heat

The Trouble with Knowledge

Will our grandchildren know right from wrong? By Roger Scuton

The Apple I

A look at Steve Wozniak's mother of all Apple motherboards. By Daniel Turner

Bill Moggridge

What makes for good design. By Nate Nickerson

Two Words on Design

The goal of simplicity is anything but easy to achieve. By John Maeda

Genomes for the Masses

Lowering sequencing costs heralds the year of the personal genome. By George Weinstock

Global-Warming Myths

It's time to move forward on regulating greenhouse gases. By Hoff Stauffer

The "New" Apple

It's only not a computer company in name. Apple remains true to its roots. By Simson Garfinkel

Reintermediation

For the legions of Internet users contributing to new "human-assisted search" sites, no job is too small. By Wade Roush

Silicon Brains

Computer chips designed at Stanford to mimic the workings of the human brain could shed light on our cognitive capacities. By Emily Singer

Biotechnology

Nanotechnology

Information Technology