Cool Stuff That's Coming

The Spokane, Portland and Seattle No. 700, a 1930s locomotive, will make its Montana debut next month, marking the first time in 50 years a steam train has crossed the state on rails. Marcia Pilgeram,…

The controversial field of stem cell research got boosts from several directions this week, with three breakthrough studies published and a company announcing another new development. By Kristen Philipkoski Wired.com All of the work puts…

If you ran into him online, you might first be struck by the kid’s prodigious memory. He calls himself "SmarterChild" and can recite a litany of facts — this season’s entire baseball lineup, every word…

Sun Microsystems is betting its future on a radical new technology called N1. If it works, it could revitalize the troubled Silicon Valley pioneer — and change the way the world thinks about computing. By:…

College students sitting in their dorm rooms will soon get an answer via the Internet to one of life’s great unanswered questions: Is there a washer or dryer available in the basement laundry room? By…

Grains contain gold in forms that seem tailor-made for industrial use. Rumpelstiltskin, the fairy-tale rogue who spun straw into gold, has nothing on Miguel Yacaman and Jorge Gardea-Torresdey. The two University of Texas researchers have…

22 August 2002 New software could allow computer users with disabilities or busy hands to write nearly twice as fast, more accurately and more comfortably than before. The software could also speed up writing on…

High-tech view plays key role in design, service Flying around the country from Seattle a few years ago as Paul Allen’s right-hand man, Vern Raburn experienced the frustrations of commercial airline service. By JAMES WALLACE…

”Begin the presentation,” says Rodney Brooks, and just like that the room lights wink out, the curtains close out the bright sunshine of a Cambridge summer day, and a video projector begins flashing PowerPoint slides…

They made small keystrokes for man, giant leaps for mankind. And on Saturday a founding father of the Internet and the creator of the World Wide Web were at the third-annual Telluride Technology Festival talking…