Karen A. Frenkel

Science and Technology Writer

Catching the Customer

Selected Works

Bloomberg.com, Bloomberg Businessweek, Businessweek.com
A flexible optical fiber laser enables doctors to perform delicate surgeries more accurately.
A textile company aims for sustainability.
Saving power for supercomputers, laptops, and now data centers.
A new smartphone app that suggests routes to drivers, saving them time and fuel.
Two entrepreneurs buy a bankrupt company that sells a female sexual arousal oil. Then they can't get the networks to put their ads on the air. Why?
"Our fundamental advance allows us to deliver devices that can provide cooling for refrigeration or waste heat recovery and efficiently convert it into power," says Phononic Devices Chief Executive Officer Anthony Atti.
Pressed for time, doctors are less and less amenable to face-to-face meetings with pharma reps. Viscira's biomedical computer animation reach tech-savvy MDs.
Rags to riches profile of chemist Rick McCullough, whose ink could make possible foldable, printable electronics
Tech from Plextronics Could Replace Lightbulbs, ’Do Away With iPads’
A profile of the maritime robot innovator
Interview
A 1989 interview with the late, titanic visionary while he was CEO of NeXT,Inc., in which he discusses the Mach OS, robotic manufacturing, mentoring employees, digital Shakespeare and Webster's...
FastCompany.com
The Murray/Jackson trial showcases iPhone forensics, experts comment on the state of the art.
Researchers find privacy breeches possible.
Science Magazine and Science NOW
Steven Weinberg, who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in physics, called on Americans to support research and big science instead of consumer electronics and gadgets with higher taxes.
Prominent women scientists took to the stage at the World Science Festival to chat about their career paths.
Scientists shoot gigapixel panoramas to make discoveries
Narrative Non-Fiction: MrBellersNeighborhood.com
A true short story from and to Manhattan's Upper West Side.
U. S. News and World Report and InsideScience.org
Robotic camera technology inspires virtual exploration by students around the world.
Blogs
The First Conference on Computational Sustainability
ScientificAmerican.com
Is the Web a Threat to Creativity and Cultural values? One Cyber Pioneer Thinks So.
Troubled teens benefit from role-play in virtual worlds with their therapists.
Resuscitating the Atomic Airplane
Scientific American MIND
A look at gloating and envy
Scientists debate how synapses work
A gene that controls human sleep habits can transform the rodents into "early birds"
A review of the literature shows that developing brains are vulnerable to a host of poisons.
Scientific American
A New Algorithim Could Soon Vanquish Go Pros
The Village Voice
Three neurological studies reveal that traumatic memories of those near the site and bereaved children affect functioning of parts of their brains.
New York's Newest Science Magnet School and its Pioneering Principal, Jose Maldonado-Rivera
The New York Times
The making of the first fully computer-generated cartoon feature film.
Why online shoppers abandon their shopping carts.
Book Reviews
Two books look for answers in the lives of a few who succeeded.
Books - Children's
Fourth graders explore what makes rainbows, why there are colors, why lights add up to white and paints add up to black.
Fourth graders learn about sound waves, echoes, and music.
How we capture light and sound so that we can see and hear them any time we want.
Other Magazines
NYSE Magazine
How online merchants gain buyers' trust
Jewerly Etailers and Customer Trust
Technology Review
Book
Communications of the ACM