The self-healing grid, one that monitors itself, measures itself and even takes corrective action to eliminate reliability problems, may be in the near future.
A controversial team of scientists is on the hunt for a nation willing to hold one of the most daring ventures in the history of medicine. Using the same technology that conjured up a cloned sheep named Dolly in 1997, they want to clone a human being.
Al Zelicoff, a senior scientist at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, warned Utah researchers that the Biological Weapons Convention has failed and the U.S. has no defense against biological warfare. He urged the development of an international network to monitor unusual disease outbreaks as a way of controlling and deterring biological weapons research.