December 15, 2004
The Cloning Logjam
For the past few years, the legal committee of the United Nations General Assembly has tried to hammer out prospective...
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December 15, 2004
The Encyclopedia in Cyberspace
Since the Internet’s early days, there has been much speculation over the future of the encyclopedia. For the...
December 15, 2004
‘A Second Kind of Frontier’
On October 4, 2004, the anniversary of the Sputnik launch, the $10 million Ansari X Prize to encourage private...
June 22, 2004
Notes & Briefs
The last few months have seen some new beginnings in the world of nanotechnology policy. First, Eric Drexler, the...
June 22, 2004
The Assassin’s Mace
China’s massive campaign to modernize its military forces is moving forward at a quick and steady pace, according...
June 22, 2004
The Stem Cell Race
Strange things happen in election years, but few this year have been more peculiar than the prominence of a burgeoning...
June 22, 2004
America at 10 M.P.H.
A century ago, automobile owners commonly heard skeptics jeer, “Get a horse!” Today, some Segway riders are...
June 22, 2004
The Big Change
In June 2004, researchers announced the first successful pregnancy in a woman who had received an ovary tissue...
June 22, 2004
It’s Getting Easier Being Green
Those who deem themselves friends of the environment often choose to make their political credo an all-encompassing...
June 22, 2004
Francis Crick, RIP
On April 25, 1953, the scientific journal Nature announced to the world the beginning of a new age in biology....