This column originally appeared in Forbes.
Dexter Roberts wrote recently in BusinessWeek that more than Meanwhile executives at nearly a hundred multinationals recently told my firm that their biggest challenge for growth is recruiting and retaining talent. At more than one-third of the big businesses we talked to they said their annual employee turnover is [...]
Joule Unlimited: ‘Fuel from thin air’ comes closer, clearer
ShareIn Massachusetts, the secretive Joule Unlimited (then known as Joule Biotechnologies) emerged late last year from “stealth mode” with the startling announcement that their technology could produce up to 15,000 gallons per acre of drop-in hydrocarbon fuels, using only sunlight, CO2 and (fresh, brackish or saline) [...]
The taste of tiny: Putting nanofoods on the menu
27 May 2010 by Emma Davies
Nanotechnology Topic Guides
Editorial: How to persuade us to swallow nanofood
NOTHING says summer holidays quite like ice cream. On a hot afternoon by the sea, there’s little to beat the simple pleasure of a cooling scoop of your favourite flavour. Can food get [...]
Cell phone exposure may protect against and reverse Alzheimer’s disease
January 6, 2010
The millions of people who spend hours every day on a cell phone may have a new excuse for yakking. A surprising new study in mice provides the first evidence that long-term exposure to electromagnetic waves associated with cell phone use may actually protect [...]
This post is all about the only thing that matters for a new startup
The World’s Most Powerful People
The Great Reaction
Matthew Herper, 11.12.09, 08:20 PM EST
Forbes Magazine dated November 30, 2009
Nobel laureate K. Barry Sharpless hopes to make drug design as simple as building with Legos.
As a boy growing up in the late 1940s, K. Barry Sharpless fell under the spell of the coelacanth. The lungfish-like creature was believed [...]
Fuel from Thin Air
Joule Biotechnologies achieves conversion of CO2, sunlight into hydrocarbons – no biomass, no extraction, no kidding
In Hawaii, at the BIO Pacific Rim Summit, Joule Biotechnologies announced that it has achieved direct microbial conversion of CO2 into hydrocarbons via engineered organisms, powered by solar energy. Joule’s Helioculture process mixes sunlight and CO2 with [...]
A Genetic Fountain of Youth
Researchers have identified a genetic tweak that can slow aging in mice.
By Jocelyn Rice Thursday, October 01, 2009
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By disabling a gene involved in an important biochemical signaling pathway, scientists have discovered a way to mimic the well-known anti-aging benefits of caloric restriction, allowing mice to live longer [...]
By 2040 you will be able to upload your brain…
SPINY lobsters have become the unlikely inspiration for a robot with a unique sense of direction.