Lab experiments suggest that future fusion reactors could use helium-3 gathered from the moon.
Technology Review has a feature-length story documenting the frightening ease with which biological weapons can be made with modern techniques: "At least some of what the Soviet bioweaponeers did with difficulty and expense can now be done easily and cheaply. And all of what they accomplished can be duplicated with time and money. We live in a world where gene-sequencing equipment bought secondhand on eBay and unregulated biological material delivered in a FedEx package provide the means to create biological weapons."