Braving Medicine's Frontier

U.S. stem cell researchers fight with uncertain financing and esoteric restrictions. Can the science survive under these conditions?

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Plasma Power

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Nanotech on Display

South Korea’s Samsung leads the race to perfect flat-panel TVs built with carbon nanotubes. Will they be nanotech’s first commercial hit?

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Nanotech on Display

South Korea’s Samsung leads the race to perfect flat-panel TVs built with carbon nanotubes. Will they be nanotech’s first commercial hit?

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A Remote Control For Your Life

Japanese mobile-phone giant NTT DoCoMo is replacing house keys, credit cards, and train passes with a phone that does it all.

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Humanoids for the Home

By 2010, the Japanese government hopes, full-fledged, humanoid robots will be common sights in middle-class homes.

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Surveillance Nation-Part Two

In pursuit of security and service, we are submitting ourselves to a proliferation of monitoring technologies. But a loss of privacy is not inevitable.

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Surveillance Nation

Webcams, tracking devices, and interlinked databases are leading to the elimination of unmonitored public space. Are we prepared for the consequences of the intelligence-gathering network we’re unintentionally building?

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Why Software Is So Bad

For years we’ve tolerated buggy, bloated, badly organized computer programs. But soon, we’ll innovate, litigate and regulate them into reliability.

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Getting Over Oil

Years of cheap oil have slowed energy innovation to a crawl. A new Middle East crisis could change that.

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