Electric Cars Primer
Hybrids, plug-ins, and extended-range electric cars are hitting the market. Use this interactive primer to learn how they work.
MIT News: Jan/Feb 2012
TR: May/Jun 2008 PDF issue
Technology Review: May/June 2008
An Electrifying Startup
A new lithium-ion battery from A123 Systems could help electric cars and hybrids come to dominate the roads.
By Kevin Bullis
Una Laptop por Niño
The philanthropic effort dubbed the $100 laptop has not met its grand initial goals. But its first deployment, in Peru, may turn skeptics into believers.
By David Talbot
Brain Trauma in Iraq
Thousands of U.S. soldiers have survived powerful explosions in Iraq. Many are returning home with brain injuries that could result in long-term disabilities.
By Emily Singer
From the Editor
The Heroic Age
On the natural philosophy of elementary particles.
By Jason Pontin
Letters
Letters
Letters from our readers.
Notebooks
Veterans in Need
Brain-injury survivors in the U.S. military need far better care.
By Representative Bill Pascrell
The New Collider
The large hadron collider may solve nature's great mysteries.
By Jerome Friedman
Desultory D-Wave
D-Wave may not have made a working quantum computer.
By Scott Aaronson
Forward
Remaking X-Rays
Silicon gratings help create supersharp images.
Robotics' Giant Leap
An unmanned lunar rover could be the next to roam the moon.
Catching a Pathogen
A new process can quickly identify mystery microbes.
A Cheap CO2 Trap
New material more cheaply captures the greenhouse gas.
Where Spam Is Born
Where does all that malicious Internet content come from?
Startup Profile
All the Internet's a Game
Gamelayers makes a treasure hunt of everyday Web browsing.
Essay
Where Are They?
Why the author hopes the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing.
By Nick Bostrom
Q&A
Jennifer Chayes
The director of the new Massachusetts-based Microsoft Research lab wants to use mathematics to design better search engines, recommendation systems, and online auctions.
By Erica Naone
Photo Essay
The Making of the Large Hadron Collider
The biggest physics experiment ever, CERN's new particle accelerator, goes live this May.
By Katherine Bourzac
Reviews
Riding D-Wave
A pioneer of quantum computing asks: Has a Canadian startup really demonstrated a commercially viable quantum computer?
By Seth Lloyd
Recommendation Nation
Learning to love customers like you.
By Michael Schrage
The Telecosm, 2008
The most notorious promoter of the 1990s telecommunications boom has been proved right.
By Mark Williams
Hack
The Livescribe Pulse
Pen-and-paper note taking gets digital audio support.
By Erica Naone
Demo
Creating a Heart
An ingenious method for making new organs could revolutionize transplants.
By Amanda Schaffer
69 Years Ago in TR
"A Who's Who of the Unseen"
Then as now, a push for fresh experimentation in particle physics.
By Nate Nickerson
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