| A 'micro pharmacy' insideA new thin-film coating developed at MIT can deliver controlled drug doses to specific targets in the body following implantation, essentially serving as a "micro pharmacy." |
| Bioartificial Liver shows promiseIn recent tests, HepaLife’s bioartificial liver reduced levels of toxic ammonia by 75% in fewer than 24 hours, a feature considered necessary to the successful treatment of acute liver failure using an artificial liver. |
| The art of creating creaturesAmazing mechanical life forms, aware of their environment, has very simple brains, and powered by the wind. Theo Jansen explains how his creations work. |
| The Fragility of the Information AgeFirst, a dead surveillance satellite, one roughly the size of a bus, fell out of orbit and into a collision course with Earth. It will likely do no damage, so don't worry about being crushed to death by flying chunks of the National Security Agency budget. The important part is that nobody knew when the satellite died. |
| The Pharmacy of the Future and YouOne of the perennial concerns of conservative bioethicists like Leon Kass and Francis Fukuyama is that some portion of humanity will rush to adopt various biotech enhancements to their detriment. |
| Tourist Spaceship Design UnveiledWithin a few years a handful of rich tourists may be blasting into space in a craft that combines the aesthetics of the space shuttle and a corporate jet. |
| Petabytes in useNothing tells the story of accelerating progress better than a new unit becoming common. One Petabytes = one quadrillion bytes. |
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