Two scientists who independently concocted potentially dangerous strains of bird flu viruses—and have had the bioweapons community in a tizzy for the past month with the pending publication of their work—today said that they would suspend their research for 60 days...
If the United Nations population wonks are correct, and they usually are, a baby born on Halloween, of all days, will tip the population meter to seven billion souls.
Accuracy is so far too poor to provide "medical grade" diagnostics
The Internet's future: Danny Hillis talks to Scientific American's Mariette DiChristina at the Compass Summit. PALOS VERDES, Calif.--Danny Hillis recalls how simple the Internet was in the 1980s...
Al Qaeda affiliates may seek retribution for Osama bin Laden's death, but the data paint a more sobering picture
Graphic artist Isao Hashimoto depicts the startling number of nuclear bombs that have gone off between 1945 and 1998, from the early U.S. and Soviet tests to the activities of Pakistan's nuclear program...
Europe follows the U.S. into digital broadcasting
Technology-transfer doyen sights a foreign shore
