Oppenheimer's Ghost

Can we control the evolution and uses of technology?

Letters

Letters from our readers.

Financial Woes in Second Life

Hidden Hearing Aid

Seals as Sensors

Networking the Hudson

Watching Live Cells

A Better Touch Screen

Watching Wildfires

3-D View of the Brain

Battery Booster

Postglacial Rebound

Better than High-Def

Featured Startup: EveryScape

Steve Fever

Countless tiny machines hijack the living, borrowing their hands, eyes, and ears, as the machines strive to resurrect just one man. By Greg Egan

The Interoperation

Architecture had given way to software management. So he turned buildings into construction programs. By Bruce Sterling

Google Earth

How Google maps the world. By Simson Garfinkel

William Hurlbut

How to make embryonic stem cells without embryos. By Michael Fitzgerald

On Quants

Financial engineers merely keep the markets running. By Daniel W. Stroock

Friend Spam

The founder of Friendster looks at the revolution he started. By Jonathan Abrams

Sea-Level Riddle

Determining how fast ice sheets are melting is critical to future policy. By Richard Alley

Trivial Pursuits

With microblogging services, the mundane is the message. By Jason Pontin

A Genetic Test for Diabetes Risk

Will it help make people healthier? By Emily Singer

The Talk of the Town: You

A new book helps us rethink privacy in an immodest age. By Mark Williams

Virus-Built Electronics

A new way to fabricate nanomaterials could mean batteries and solar cells woven into clothes. By Kevin Bullis

Nanotechnology

Information Technology

Biotechnology