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In Kenya, Better Cows for Better Health
A parasite researcher from NYU is hoping to tackle African sleeping sickness in Keyna by creating genetically enhanced cows that cannot catch or transmit the disease
The Singularity Summit Was Near; It Has Now Come and Gone
A weekend conference on crazy ideas about the future that may not be so crazy.
Copenhagen: Be All and End All? A Nobel Winner Doesn’t Think So
Elinor Ostrom, a Nobel winner in economics, finds climate change answers lie close to home.
Peace Prize, Check. Next Stop, Copenhagen.
What does the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize mean for U.S. policy on climate change?
Illuminating the Mind
How an experimental mind-control technology could hasten the coming of the Singularity.
Big Bright Green Songbird Machine
A new tool allows scientists to study how the brain grows and develops.
“Immortality Enzyme” Earns Researchers Nobel Prize in Medicine
This year’s first round of winners represents a historical first for the prize.
Tuberculosis is at a Record Low, and We’ve Been Here Before
History’s lessons on the resurgence of a disease.







