The co-founder of Google has admitted that the search engine compromised its principles by accommodating Chinese censorship demands, and said that the company could pull out of the country.

Scientists at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute on Tuesday announced that they would begin cloning disease-specific human stem cell lines, marking the first such effort in the United States after the scandal of South Korea’s Hwang Woo-suk.

In Changchun City, Jilin Province, Northeast China, a woman started a "sexless marriage" brokerage company. This woman said her father was a physician and often treated patients who lost their ability to have sex.

A robot designed to crawl through the human gut by mimicking the wriggling motion of an undersea worm has been developed by European scientists. It could one day help doctors diagnose disease by carrying tiny cameras through patients’ bodies.

Dave Taylor:  I was recently invited to present a talk to the Rocky Mountain Internet Users Group on Google as Big Brother, with obvious reference to George Orwell’s prescient book 1984 and other totalitarian dystopias. The talk was quite interesting – and the research I did beforehand rather troubling – and the 40+ people who [...]