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Texas site yields 15,000-year-old evidence of earliest Americans
An archaeological site in Texas has yielded almost 16,000 pieces of evidence that people were present in the Americas about 2,500 years earlier than thought.
March 29, 2011
Gene technologists: Today’s ingenious, controversial designers
Synthetic biology has arrived. At a stroke, gene technologists have become the world's most significant and controversial designers.
March 29, 2011
Engineered bacteria secrete diesel fuel
Researchers patented a process involving a genetically-modified form of blue-green bacteria that converts sunlight and carbon dioxide directly into diesel fuel.
March 28, 2011
Ancient Nubians might have brewed beer for antibiotics
Tetracycline wasn't discovered officially until 1948, but ancient Nubians might have brewed up its powerful bacteria-killing properties in their beer.
March 27, 2011
Clinpharmpod: Sex and lifestyle drugs
A two-part podcast (Clinpharmpod) from Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics on the challenges, complexities, and change for pressing issues in sexual health.
March 26, 2011
Bill Nye explains possible breached core at Fukushima Reactor #3
The Fukushima Reactor #3 in Japan may have suffered a breach. Bill Nye the Science Guy describes the situation and explains the potential dangers to CNN.
March 25, 2011
Jeremy Bentham on scenario planning for crucial choices in uncertain times
Corporations and the public and private sectors use scenario planning to help inform decision-making. It's a way of looking at alternate possible futures.
March 23, 2011
Cellphone apps to track our health
Tanzeem Choudhury, a computer scientist, said that within a few years, we'll be able to capture information about our health just by using cellphone apps.
March 23, 2011
Did Henry VIII have a blood disorder?
A single blood protein, the Kell antigen, might be to blame both for the wives of Henry VIII many miscarriages and for his bizarre paranoid mid-life behavior.
March 22, 2011
Ötzi the Iceman: See what he looked like
Reconstruction artists have given us a photo of Ötzi the Iceman, a 5,000-year-old body discovered locked in Alpine ice 20 years ago.
March 21, 2011
