This week’s roundup of stories include:   Mystery remains around honeybee deaths; Researchers discover hypothalamus key to slowing aging and cognitive decline; New 3D-printed ear combines biology and electronics; After 105 years first Tunguska meteorite fragments discovered

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

Dmitry Itskov is a Russian entrepreneur and founder of the 2045 Initiative with a goal to reinvent humanity to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Last July I reported on this as an initiative of billionaires. At the time membership was around 10,000. Today it has more than doubl

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

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

The FDA in the United States has approved the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System, the first bionic eye, an artificial retina for sufferers of Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), a disease that affects 1 in 4,000 in North America. It works by stimulating retinal cells with electrical signals to

BiFi is to biology as WiFi is to computers. It is a technology being pioneered by researchers at Stanford University and other institutions, looking at bioengineering techniques for creating complex biological communities working together to accomplish specific tasks. In a sense every

MobiSante has built the first smartphone-based ultrasound system designed to support diagnostic imaging anywhere there is cellphone coverage and that means virtually everywhere on the planet. Called the MobiUS SP1, the technology features a wand, a Toshiba Windows smartphone and MobiS

This week’s five stories look at: Shocking Alzheimer’s Brains Helps Patients in Clinical Trial; New Breast Cancer Screening Technology Wins Sanofi-Pasteur Prize; Transformers – They’re Real and They’re Tiny; Taikonauts Plan to Grow Vegetables on the Moon