Project provides a systematic way of exploring the vast realm of unfamiliar materials. Trying to find new materials, to improve the performance of anything from microchips to car bodies, has... Read more
There were three great scientific horse races in the last century. The first two, the race to the moon and the race to split the atom have been widely reported. The race to sequence the huma... Read more
As doctors and scientists continue to make huge leaps in terms of genome sequencing and scanning devices, everything about your medical treatment is going to change. As a child, you could al... Read more
It’s relatively easy to collect massive amounts of data on microbes. But the files are so large that it takes days to simply transmit them to other researchers and months to analyze once the... Read more
Intense competition among scientists has led to abuses. Is there a better way? When Isaac Newton developed calculus and his theory of gravity, he reaped a reward far greater than stock optio... Read more
The promise for the future of medicine will be off the charts The first entrant in the Genomics X Prize is taking up the challenge of truly cheap and rapid genome sequencing. If it can do it... Read more
The Human Genome Project has failed so far to produce the medical miracles that scientists promised. Biologists are now divided over what, if anything, went wrong—and what needs to happen ne... Read more
Image via CrunchBase J. Craig Venter is moving past the human genome — for example, by designing algae that could replace fossil fuels. THE scientific rebel J. Craig Venter created headlines... Read more