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Bioethics and The Brain

Microelectronics and medical imaging are bringing us closer to a world where mind reading is possible and blindness banished—but we may not want to live there

Why We Fall Apart

Engineering's reliability theory explains human aging

Life Scientist Takes Helm at MIT

Biologist Susan Hockfield will tackle funding priorities, student concerns, and enrollment issues

A High-Voltage Fight Against Cancer

Researchers are trying to kill tumors by zapping them with high-voltage, nanosecond electric pulses

Would You Have A Neural Implant?

Germs That Build Circuits

With viruses serving as construction crews and DNA as the blueprint, biotechnology may hold the key to postlithography ICs

Riding Life's Twists and Turns

How a strand of DNA launched a career

The Watchman

As commander of Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center, Duane Deal guards the skies

Would You Have A Neural Implant?

Bioethics and The Brain

Microelectronics and medical imaging are bringing us closer to a world where mind reading is possible and blindness banished—but we may not want to live there

Riding Life's Twists and Turns

How a strand of DNA launched a career

Why We Fall Apart

Engineering's reliability theory explains human aging

When Good Clicks Go Bad

Electrifying Society

Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety From The Telegraph To the X-ray

Electric Flex

Electrically activated plastic muscles will let robots smile, arm-wrestle, and maybe even fly like bugs

Eye of the Beholder

Scanning light beams to the retina could revolutionize displays for everything from cellphones to games

Synthetic Skin

Can robots, computers, and chip-making techniques save tissue engineering and bring internal organs to market?

A Tabletop UV Microscope

It clears the way for finer-featured chips

Zap

Extreme voltage could be a surprisingly delicate tool in the fight against cancer

Synthetic Serendipity

In this futuristic tale, Mike Villas is good at playing games. He's about to find out if he's any good at playing people

The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

'Two heads are better than one' is an adage honored by this research institute, where multidisciplinary collaboration is an art.

Look Out, Beckham: Here Come the Robots

At the "World Cup" for robots, the talk is that one day the humans on the pitch are going to get a run for their money

On a Trail of Smiles

What Separates Winners From Losers? You Tell Us