The Most Important Education Technology in 200 Years
Students anywhere are being offered free instruction online. What will that do to the trillion-dollar education business?If you were asked to name the most important innovation in transportation over...
View ArticleProceed with Caution
A promising technique for synthetic biology is fraught with risks.Genes in sexually reproducing organisms typically have a 50 percent chance of being inherited. Some genes have naturally evolved...
View ArticleMotorized Pants to Help Soldiers and Stroke Victims
A soft, lightweight exoskeleton developed at Harvard applies assistive force without interfering with a person’s normal gait.A soft exoskeleton being developed by researchers at Harvard could let...
View ArticleFun with Food
Playful new cooking based on traditional methods and weird ingredients will supplant the industrial techniques that dominate modernist cuisine.Ever since cooks began playing with the equipment of the...
View ArticleElectronic Inks Make 3-D Printing More Promising
A startup called Voxel8 is using materials expertise to extend the capabilities of 3-D printing.Three cofounders of Voxel8, a Harvard spinoff, are showing me a toy they’ve made. At the company’s lab...
View ArticleIs It Really Only $1,000 to Sequence a Genome?
Technological improvements have dramatically lowered the cost of reading all your DNA, though most people still don’t have an incentive to have it done.It cost $2.7 billion to sequence the first human...
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