Climate Change Wide-scale US wind power could cause significant warming A Harvard study raises questions about just how much wind should be part of a climate solution. by James Temple 2018-10-04T11:00:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines A Quantum Boost for a Different Kind of Computer A breakthrough in creating atomic qubits makes useful quantum computing more imminent. by Will Knight 2017-11-30T15:09:00-05:00
Climate Change The Growing Case for Geoengineering As climate change accelerates, a handful of scientists are eager to move ahead with experiments testing ways to counteract warming artificially. Their reasoning: we just might get desperate enough to use this technology one day. by James Temple 2017-04-18T00:00:00-04:00
Climate Change Harvard Scientists Moving Ahead on Plans for Atmospheric Geoengineering Experiments The climate researchers intend to launch a high-altitude balloon that would spray a small quantity of reflective particles into the stratosphere. by James Temple 2017-03-24T09:59:00-04:00
Rewriting Life Is It Really Only $1,000 to Sequence a Genome? Technological improvements have dramatically lowered the cost of reading all your DNA, though most people still don’t have an incentive to have it done. by Anna Nowogrodzki 2015-09-04T12:30:00-04:00
News Electronic Inks Make 3-D Printing More Promising A startup called Voxel8 is using materials expertise to extend the capabilities of 3-D printing. by Kevin Bullis 2015-03-05T00:00:00-05:00
Business Impact Fun with Food Playful new cooking based on traditional methods and weird ingredients will supplant the industrial techniques that dominate modernist cuisine. by Corby Kummer 2014-10-03T00:00:00-04:00
News Motorized Pants to Help Soldiers and Stroke Victims A soft, lightweight exoskeleton developed at Harvard applies assistive force without interfering with a person’s normal gait. by Kevin Bullis 2014-09-16T12:29:00-04:00
Rewriting Life Proceed with Caution A promising technique for synthetic biology is fraught with risks. by Kenneth Oye 2014-08-19T00:05:00-04:00
Business Impact The Most Important Education Technology in 200 Years Students anywhere are being offered free instruction online. What will that do to the trillion-dollar education business? by Antonio Regalado 2012-11-02T00:00:00-04:00
