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Bases to Bytes

Cheap sequencing technology is flooding the world with genomic data. Can we handle the deluge?

Iridescent Displays

Qualcomm uses the ­mechanism that gives color to butterfly wings to make low-power, full-color e-reader displays.

Building Tesla

  • 04.25.2012
  • By Timothy Maher
  • Other

At its electric-car factory in Silicon Valley, Tesla obsesses over details like making its own high-tech tools.

Photographs by John Stocklin

Making Liquid Metal Batteries

  • 04.23.2012
  • By Kevin Bullis
  • Energy

Behind the scenes at a startup developing batteries for grid storage.

Save Energy with These Apps and Gadgets

TR takes a look at the best mobile software for tracking and reducing consumer energy use.

Six Strange Things Worth Money Online

What’s a tweet worth? The Web is redefining what’s valuable and letting people create personal wealth in surprising new ways.

Views of Kenya’s IT Culture

Students, startups, and corporations pioneer mobile health applications in a mobile-saturated nation.

Printing Muscle

Organovo's 3-D printer creates human tissues that could help speed drug discovery.

Paintings Like Photos

  • 02.21.2012
  • By TR Editors
  • Other

The work and inspiration of Gerhard Richter.

The Other Side of CES

Every January, up to 150,000 people swarm the ­Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where they mainly see salesmen and models touting slick gadgets under bright lights. Most visitors miss the ­surprises that can be found in a plain corner called the “International Gateway,” where manufacturers from Asia display unglamorous components and offbeat items.

Photographs by Gregg Segal

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People Power 2.0

How civilians helped win the Libyan information war.

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