What happens when a bio-cracker unleashes a plant virus on all the wheat in North America, and the genetic code to ‘Wheat 2.0′ is closed-source, patented code owned by a corporation?

Smoking wipes 10 years off a person’s life on average, according to the longest ever study of smokers, but giving up at any age brings huge benefits.

Seizing the title of “world’s tallest building” be it Joseph Pulitzer’s 20-story New York World newspaper building in lower Manhattan in 1890, the Empire State Building in 1931, or Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s gargantuan Petronas Towers in 1998 has always been about pushing the limits of architecture and engineering. But three years after the attacks of […]

Skirmishes between content-producing companies seeking expansive copyright protections and hardware and telecommunications corporations on the other side have resulted in a legislative deadlock on Capitol Hill.

A company called Kereos is developing a pair of nanotechnologies to identify tumors that measure just 1 mm in diameter, then kill them with a tiny but precise amount of a chemotherapy drug.

Former US Senator Hank Brown has recently taken over as the CEO and President of the Daniels Fund, Colorado’s largest private foundation. On July 12th Hank has agreed to talk about the “Future of Philanthropy” at the DaVinci Institute’s Night with a Futurist.

The future belongs to i-textiles-”i” for interactive. These computerized clothes are expected to communicate with other separately wired apparel to form a more efficient network.

An Oregon doctor, who had sex with a patient and then charged the state about $5,000 for his “treatments,” has been jailed for 60 days and stripped of his license.

MTI Micro Fuel Cells’ new Mobion technology will make it easier for manufacturers to build long-lasting DMFC (direct methanol fuel cell) technology for industrial and consumer handheld devices, says William Acker, president and chief executive officer of the company.

Today the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that anybody can be compelled at any time to identify themselves, if a police officer asks. People who refuse to identify themselves, even if they are not suspected of a crime, will be arrested. Sound Orwellian?

For anybody who has followed the roller-coaster world of Chinese Internet IPOs this year, the pattern is already distressingly familiar.