Articles by Dave Mosher

Six months ago today, computer scientist Johnny Chung Lee secretly birthed a robust hacking community around the Kinect game controller by Microsoft. Lee today updated an audience on crowdsourced efforts to repurpose the Kinect at the Wired Business Conference — Disruptive by Design.

NEW YORK — Bill Gates has a simple plan for the future of energy: Don’t rely on the cute stuff. Sure, attaching solar panels to roofs, building windmills in backyards or deploying other small-scale energy technologies is a fine idea, Microsoft’s co-founder told a packed auditorium at the Wired Business Conference: Disruptive by Design. Trouble is, they can’t significantly aide developing nations thirsty for cheap energy, he said.

Using light from 14,000 distant yet powerful cosmic beacons, astronomers have pieced together the largest and most detailed 3-D map of the ancient universe.

New high-speed videos of hummingbirds overturn nearly two centuries of conventional wisdom on how they drink.

A year after the Deepwater Horizon blowout sent 200 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, smaller leaks still bubble across the Gulf -- but unlike big spills, they're largely ignored.

A new laser-powered chemical analysis technique is so sensitive that it can take dozens of samples from a single strand of hair, distinguishing between the chemical signatures of each.