Stories by Tim Beardsley

A disarming robot starts to act up

As the new head of the National Science Foundation, Rita R. Colwell seeks to bring environmental research into the information age

In search of the earliest Americans

A hurricane's effects on species are starkly revealed

Warmer nights may be slowing tropical forest growth and raising carbon dioxide levels

A new technique could fulfill holography's promise for capturing information

As India and Pakistan demonstrated, military nuclear know-how is spreading with frightening ease

In his race to beat the Human Genome Project, J. Craig Venter has riled geneticists everywhere

Synthetic emotions could make computers nicer

An international clampdown is planned on the black market in CFCs and other banned chemicals

The issues are many and thorny

Stem cells lead the way to a new medical paradigm in tissue regeneration

Information warrior Thomas B. Cochran is fighting hard against U.S. reliance on nuclear weapons

Researchers plan to modify HIV and try it as a live AIDS vaccine

Researchers get a photosynthetic process in artificial cells

The U.S. head of the Human Genome Project, Francis S. Collins, strives to keep his Christianity from interfering with his science and politics

Haze from fires might promote bacterial growth

Researchers plan to see if cell phones could affect memory

Federal labs are developing new chipmaking techniques. Who will reap the benefits?

Sequencing Bessie and her fodder

My enemy's enemy may be no friend

"Dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico challenges regulators