Tag: science
Frankenfish (genetically modified salmon) comes alive!
A genetically modified Atlantic salmon may soon be available in supermarkets. The company behind it insists it's more environmentally sustainable. ...
CSI Iraq: Biometric crime fighting or hit list?
The United States has collected a massive amount of biometric data on Iraqis during the Iraq war. Some say that data is dangerous....
Science photography on a nano scale
A photographer helps people visualize the invisible and illuminate science....
Garage inventors
In garages, basements and even a Quonset hut, amazing science is happening without institutional or government funding. ...
A Venus flytrap for nuclear waste
Nuclear waste is extremely difficult to clean up, but a new synthetic material can snap up radioactive ions like a Venus flytrap devours insects....
Why evolution isn’t always good for us
How supernormal stimuli combined with human instincts developed over hundreds of years results in overindulgence and addictions....
This is your brain on Google
Research shows doing online searches can actually increase the level of activity in your brain....
NASA and commercial space travel
President Obama's proposed budget for NASA puts the US space agency on a new, commercial trajectory....
Uncertain future for US space program
As President Obama grapples with a deficit and an economy struggling to recover, NASA may not be a priority in his budget....
Working on the future
Exploring some of the changes to the human landscape in the next decade, and what some experts are planning to do about them....
JOIN PRI COMMUNITIES:
