In recent years, there have been some incredible new inventions that use state-of-the-art technology and the latest innovations. However, there have also been some very simple inventions that have ...

For the first time, an electrical communication has just been established between a living nerve cell and its artificial equivalent. In the laboratories of the University of Massachusetts, engineers ...

The power of technology -- Risk and responsibility -- The ethical anatomy of disasters -- Remaking nature -- Tinkering with humans -- Information's wild frontiers -- Whose knowledge, whose property? - ...