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The future availability and cost of important emerging technologies could depend on access to a handful of critical elements.
The dreams of millions ride on trials for a treatment that could allow the paralyzed to walk.
The Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear accidents were failures of culture as well as technology.
Apps to track the health of individuals are most powerful when we use them collectively.
A new lab is inventing innovative ways to package and install solar cells, with the aim of making solar energy far more affordable.
Microsoft’s Kinect provides a cheap way for robots to interact with their surroundings.
The World Bank’s former top economist took heat when he called for huge investments to head off climate change. Now he says he underestimated how much is needed.
Twenty-five years after the Chernobyl disaster, the work goes on.
An up-close look at the continuing cleanup at Chernobyl.
These online communities are redefining how we find and share information, but will operators be able to assuage privacy concerns?
The former CTO of Microsoft has created a gigantic guide to kitchen science that could transform the way we eat.
Politicians and policy experts talk as if climate change can be an afterthought in energy policy. They should think again.
New type of drug kills antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Embryonic stem cells growing in a dish spontaneously form retina-like structures.
How to turn the body into a functional antenna.
Warnings about climate change were coming half a century ago.
