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Just after midnight on January 28, 2011, the government of Egypt, rocked by three straight days of massive antiregime protests organized in part through Facebook and other online social networks, did something unprecedented in the history of 21st-century telecommunications: it turned off the Internet.

By Jo Marchant of Nature magazine The beautifully preserved leather trappings of an ancient Egyptian chariot have been rediscovered in a storeroom of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. [More]

Meet the next great gonzo engineering project: A 20-mile Red Sea-spanning bridge connecting Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The bridge has been spoken about for years and multiple attempts to begin work on it have fallen through; overcoming the odds now will be a feat of both political finesse and engineering. Post-revolution Egypt is reportedly about to embark on an audacious joint construction project with Saudi Arabia: A bridge over the Red Sea that would link the two country's roads and railways

In the midst of the Egyptian revolution, David Gorodyansky and Eugene Malobrodsky, co-founders of AnchorFree , came in to work one sunny morning and realized something peculiar: Overnight, their company had scored about a million new customers in Egypt. "It was absolutely fascinating," says Gorodyansky. "Our original idea for AnchorFree was to make your Facebook and e-mail become just as secure as a banking site.

Flimmaker Amr Salama is working on a movie about the Egyptian Revolution.

A three-minute video implying multinational mobile giant Vodafone was one of the primary forces behind the Egyptian Revolution has gone viral, and Egyptians are not happy about the implications. International mobile phone giant Vodafone forgot a cardinal rule of media relations: Never mix your advertising up with Middle Eastern politics.

I was struck today by the juxtaposition of two recent articles here at ScientificAmerican.com . In “ Thin Body of Evidence ,” John Horgan expresses his skepticism about journalist Gary Taubes’s claims that carbohydrates, not fat, are the cause of obesity, heart disease and other health problems faced by many Americans

Intel's purchase of Egyptian mobile software firm SySDSoft isn't just a massive cash infusion in a post-revolution economy: It's also Intel's savvy way of getting in on the LTE fanfare.

Photography by David Roemer. Styling by Christopher Campbell.This spring, designers have delivered so many brilliant, white classics that dressing for the weekend is bound to be a leisure pursuit in itself

Photography by David Roemer.

Royal Caribbean and Azamara Club Cruises are the latest cruise lines to modify their itineraries after nearly two weeks of violent protests and riots aimed at the Egyptian government.