This is my last posting for the next few days. I will be taking my office apart so that we can move to our new apartment downtown next Tuesday. I will be unplugged and disconnected except by tablet. Expect me to be back in the saddle before the end of next week probably in time to pro

What technology and science stories caught my eye this week? Several in biomedicine. And two involving 3D printing, one for making liver, the other for mass customized manufacturing. A forecast of changes to climate zones as our atmosphere continues to heat. And a new commercial rocke

Every year the MIT Technology Review picks the ten technologies that represent significant breakthroughs.  Past years have included crowdfunding in 2012, gestural interfaces to computers in 2011, engineered stem cells in 2010 and low cost DNA sequencing in 2009, just to name a few. Wh

As we get older our ability to replace damaged cells weakens. For blood cells the trigger seems to be age-induced changes that occur in hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) that makes us less capable of fighting of diseases like leukemia. Just like somatic and embryonic stem cells can rege

In Part 2 of 10 Technologies from Space We Use Here on Earth, we complete the list first reported on March 19 in Information Week in an article by Elena Malykhina.  All these space technologies are in use for Earthly applications today and have been honoured in the Space Technology Ha

My weekly picks unlike last week are not a single theme but range over many science and technology fields. I hope you find these stories as interesting as I do.   The Universe is 100 Millions Older Than We Thought; Physicists Calculate Doomsday Argument; New 3D Display No Longer

In the last two weeks cures for HIV (the virus depicted in the picture below) have made it into the news. The first documented case of a child born infected with HIV and now “functionally cured” comes from Mississippi where a two-and-a-half-year-old is reportedly free of a

Imagine replacing a missing tooth, not with an implant or a bridge, but with a bioengineered one created from your gum cells. Sound like science fiction? Well it’s not. Researchers at the King’s College London, UK, in the Dental Institute have just published new findings i

It’s been an interesting week for science and technology headlines and here are five I would like to share with you:   Implanted Brain Chips Create Brain-to-Brain Interface; New App for Smartphones Lets You Check Your Urine; Chinese Invent New Water-Saving Irrigation Techno

What caught my eye in the headlines this week:   Mussel Adhesive to Transform Fetal Surgery; Despite Winter Storms U.S. Midwest Drought Continues; Honda Acura Dealers Begin Selling Home Solar Power Systems; Estonia Installs Nationwide EV Charging Network; Russian Meteor Strike Le