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

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

The MIT Technology Review has put together its list of 50 candidates representing innovative companies that will have a telling affect on the world this year and in years to come. Each company on the list has been chosen because it has either created a new market or challenged leaders

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

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

This week I looked at a combination of some old and new headlines that I hope you find interesting:   U.S. Navy to Replace Mine-Seeking Marine Mammals with Robots; Pee Power to Fuel Battlefield Technology; We Found a Cure for Type 1 Diabetes in Dogs; Solar Sponge Invented for Car