Stories by Julie Wakefield

Unleashed viruses, environmental disaster, gray goo--astronomer Sir Martin Rees calculates that civilization has only a 50-50 chance of making it to the 22nd century

Representative Henry A. Waxman blasts away at the White House for alleged abuse of science. Sure, it's politics--but it could restore confidence in the scientific process

A start-up contemplates nonpolluting cars powered by an ingredient of soap

Heir to a famed military and political legacy, Michael K. Powell tries to make his mark on the federal agency that regulates cell phones, television and the Internet

Marrying art and science, Nekton Research has developed an underwater robot inspired by a one-celled organism

New Internet traffic watchers aim to elevate marketing to a science

Somewhere in the brain, Christof Koch believes, there are certain clusters of neurons that will explain why you're you and not someone else

Part physics, part poetry--the fledgling un-discipline finds commercial opportunity

If microorganisms exist on other worlds, the head of NASA's fledgling Astrobiology Institute plans to find them