Balaji Panchapakesan likes to leave innocuous packages lying around, then detonate them remotely, killing any victims who are near the blast. No, he’s not an Iraqi insurgent — he’s an engineering professor at the University of Delaware, and his bombs are carbon nanotubes.

It’s a harsh reality of the drug business: The only way to make money is to keep the pipeline full of new products.

It’s a space-opera scene we know by heart: The hero’s tiny craft faces off against the vast enemy ship. Now scale down the set a billion times or so, and replace Luke Skywalker’s X-wing and the Death Star with a clump of drug-bearing molecules and a misshapen cancer cell.
Ka-BOOM!

THE Vatican has issued a stout defence of Charles Darwin, voicing strong criticism of Christian fundamentalists who reject his theory of evolution and interpret the biblical account of creation literally.

An emerging branch of medicine called “organ printing” takes a patient’s own healthy cells and uses a printer, cell-based “bio-ink” and “bio-paper” to create tissue to repair a damaged organ.

A chemical compound in wine reduces levels of a harmful molecule linked to Alzheimer’s disease.