Science

Future Tense with Jon Gordon
T-Mobile G1 smart phone debuts Oct. 22.
Elite mathematicians are tracking our lives. Why that's good, and bad.
Future Tense with Jon Gordon
How the presidential election might be decided by the microtargeting of American voters.
Will green gas fuel the future?
Wisconsin researchers are producing the next generation of biofuel. They're turning sugar water into gasoline.
Will a new physical format for digital music catch on with music listeners and consumers?
Piecing together the shredded documents of the East German secret police.
Future Tense with Jon Gordon
Future Tense host Jon Gordon reports on America's e-waste export problem.
An artificial research stream brings a bit of wild river to downtown Minneapolis.
Hundreds of sensors, some placed inside the bridge's concrete during construction, will send data to the University of Minnesota for analysis.
Can't afford a stadium? Slap your name on a slug
Sure, Target will soon have its name splashed across a 40,000-seat baseball stadium. But Jeff Goodhartz got his handle on a Central American sea worm.