Boston’s push for high-tech solutions has led it to embrace low-tech as well. This article was produced for Mega by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine's ...

Cities, as the crucible and the hub of human innovation and advancement, face critical changes in their fundamental role. Through a smart city, the global community has strived to converge and ...

This story appears in the December 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. At the time of Jack the Ripper, a hard time for London, there lived in that city a mild-mannered stenographer named ...

For most of the six million years of human evolution, all humans and protohumans lived like somewhat glorified chimpanzees, at low population densities, scattered over the landscape as families or ...

Imagine a cloud of sensors, each the size of a grain of sand or even smaller, blown aloft by hurricane winds and relaying data on the storm to weather stations below. Picture an invisible sensor ...