Tech

Tech

Saving vanishing ‘tongues’

More than 3,000 world languages face extinction. Linguists are turning to mobile apps and other tech tools to preserve these endangered languages.

Tech

The road less worn

Two teens have found a new use for old tires. By grinding them up and adding them to asphalt, the old rubber can create stronger, longer-lived roads. And the bonus: The process recycles tires that might otherwise have been burned, creating pollution.

Tech

Fighting theater pirates

How can theaters thwart thieves from unlawfully recording a movie during a showing? A high-school freshman’s low-cost solution relies on simple physics.

Tech

Making magic with mechanical engineering

As kids, we all want to make magic. But Michelle Phillips took that dream further. She realized that she wanted to build rides for amusement parks.

Computing

Electricity: Cutting the cords

Engineers are working to charge more wireless gadgets — without relying on cords and plugs.

Physics

Filter lets in only the right light

Scientists have built a light filter that only permits light coming from one desired angle to pass through. Built from alternating layers of transparent materials, it could help minimize the glare in telescopes and cameras or boost the efficiency of solar cells.

Computing

Intel STS finalist’s computer program models social life

Ajay Saini has brought together math and computer science to show how habits spread within social groups. His new computer program could help promote healthy habits.

Tech

Branching out for safer water

Clean drinking water could be only a tree branch away, a new study finds.

Computing

Teen wins $100,000 for flu advance

Forty talented high-school seniors competed in the 2014 Intel Science Talent Search this week, sharing $630,000 in prizes. Top prize went to a teen for his new approach to fighting flu.

Tech

A 3-D printer prints a better life

3-D printing technology isn’t just for making toys. High school student Nick Parker is part of a group using their homemade printers to create mechanical hands for people who need them.

Fossils

Reviving dinosaurs

With the help of computers, researchers are getting a pretty good idea of how these ancient creatures moved, walked and ate.

Earth

Mining metals amidst seafloor animals

Miners may need to get their feet — and everything else — wet as they carefully seek out loads of copper and other valuable natural resources.