Some of the world's biggest drug companies are finding that their genetic research is worth more to them if they give it away.
We can meet the hardware requirements for "strong" AI -- machine intelligence with the full range of human intelligence -- by 2020, says Ray Kurzweil.
A biotech brain trust is starting a new company that hopes to make a leap for genetic engineering that is comparable to moving from an old mainframe computer to a smaller, faster PC.
"Decades of advances in robotics are making their way from the drawing board to the battlefield. Long considered too dumb, too flimsy and too experimental to be of much practical use, military robots are beginning to take on tasks deemed too dangerous or uncomfortable for flesh-and-blood soldiers."
Four years ago al Qaeda operatives were taking flying lessons. Today they are honing a new skill: hacking. How much damage could a cyberterrorist do to an electric grid or the Internet? We don't know yet.
British scientists called for more research into the safety of nanoparticles, materials so small that their dimensions can be measured in atoms, following evidence they can lodge in the brain.
The debate over nanotechnology has grown more heated as nanotechnology has become more publicized. Some point to the undeniable benefits of the new technology--lighter, faster, smaller-- and of advances in areas like medicine. Others worry about the possible side effects of nanomaterials like carbon nanotubes.
Military researchers are developing what could be the next internet -- a network of millions of tiny but intelligent embedded sensors.
Forbes surveys the emerging nanotechnology industry, arguing that it "will be bigger than the Internet and more far-reaching. It will create vast new wealth. It will destroy a lot of old wealth. And it will shake up just about every business on the planet."
Biotech firms are tantalizingly close to unraveling the mysteries of memory. On the way are drugs to help fading minds remember and let haunted ones forget.