Glycomics
Sugars could be biology's next sweet spot.
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It's Time for Clockless Chips
Megahertz, shmegahertz. A few iconoclasts are building computer chips that dispense with the traditional clock. But they face big barriers in bringing their idea into the mainstream.
Back to BASIC
Two mathematicians set out to make programming easy-and transformed computing.
Speeding Drug Discovery
It takes years and millions to get a new drug to market. New techniques might burrow through the mountain of genome data and break the bottleneck.
DARPA's Disruptive Technologies
The Defense Department agency that midwifed the Internet has a uniquely effective strategy to spur innovation-and plenty of hot new technologies in its pipeline.
Content Discontent
The Internet and globalization are creating new battle lines between producers and distributors of content.
Bankrolling the Future
Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe and Nobelist Walter Gilbert, now both venture capitalists, meet to pick the most significant emerging technologies in IT and biotech.
