Engineered Virus Attacks Bacteria
Scientists have engineered viruses to attack and destroy mega-colonies of potentially harmful bacteria called biofilms. The work is one of the latest potential
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The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering
Three years ago in The Atlantic, the Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel wrote a critique of genetic engineering titled “The Case Against Perfection.” Now
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New Single-Molecule Detector
Using tiny silicon rings that trap and circulate light, researchers have made an ultrasensitive device that can detect single biomolecules. Unlike standard techniques
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What happens if all human experience can be stored on crystals?
UK science fiction writer Charles Stross, author of novels Accelerando and Singularity Sky, posits a future in which all human experience is record
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Russians threaten to counter US shield
Russia could site cruise missiles in Kaliningrad, the Russian enclave between Poland and Lithuania, if the US goes ahead with plans for a
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Cell-transistor interface clears biolectronics hurdle
PORTLAND, Ore. — Researchers at the Max Planck Institute (Munich, Germany) have developed a cell-transistor interface that they believe will usher in a
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Blessed are the doomsayers
Back in 2000 Sun Microsystems chief scientist Bill Joy published his now famous (or is that infamous?) warning cry, ”Why the Future Doesn’t
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Brain Boosters
Two days from now I’m planning to further tweak my mind by taking a brain-boost pill. Called Provigil, it differs from its predecessors
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Human therapeutic cloning moves closer to reality
Human therapeutic cloning has moved one step closer to reality. Stem cells have been extracted from cloned monkey embryos for the first time
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Robocops ready to take on terrorists
Real-life Robocops, robots armed with lethal weaponry and a programmed-in determination to eliminate foes, could become a key element in global counter-terrorist and
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