First Graphene Audio Speaker Easily Outperforms Traditional Designs
The world's first electrostatically-driven graphene speaker matches or outperforms commercially available earphones, say physicists
Communications
The Puzzle of Ancient Star Catalogues and Modern Brightness Corrections
Ptolemy corrected the brightness of stars he observed in a way modern astronomers only invented 2000 years later, according to a new analysis of his ancient star catalogue
Path Still Doesn't Know What Job We're Hiring It For
The small-on-purpose social network adds new features, but no clear purpose.
Does Apple Maps Deserve Another Chance?
Test in California shows edge over Google Maps and Waze
Chinese Physicists Measure Speed of "Spooky Action At a Distance"
Einstein railed against the possibility of spooky action at a distance because it violates relativity. Now Chinese physicists have clocked it travelling more than four orders of magnitude faster than light
Crime Software: Still Awaiting a Verdict
Scientific data not yet in on how much crime-reduction software predicts, and how much it motivates.
Sergey's Android-gynous Moment
Google cofounder calls smartphones "emasculating" while wearing goofy Google Glass.
Toothbrushes, BristleBots, and the Nature of Intelligence
Fix a vibrating motor to the head of a toothbrush and you have an automaton that can demonstrate surprisingly complex behaviour, say Harvard physicists.
The "World's Young and Hungry": Where Real Mobile Innovation Will Come From
Companies are scrambling to develop products and operating systems for the developing world, but any old phone will do.
"Glassholes" Only, Please
Why is Google restricting its Glass rollout to rich tech elites?
