Business Impact

Should Patents Go Global?

From the Editor

• by Robert Buderi

Sustainable Energy

Letters

Insights and opinions from our readers.

• by Technology Review

Prototype

Straight from the lab: technology’s first draft.

• by Technology Review

Rewriting Life

Attacking Anthrax

Promising new antibiotics, antidotes, and vaccines emerge.

• by Erika Jonietz

Sustainable Energy

Tapping the Tides

First “underwater windmill” hitting the grid.

• by Steve Mollman

Rewriting Life

New Vein for Skin Grafts

Adding blood vessels to engineered skin could help heal burns.

• by Rebecca Zacks

Business Impact

A More Anonymous Internet

New software would let you shop online without disclosing your identity.

• by Tracy Staedter

Intelligent Machines

Space Repairman

• by Gregory T. Huang

Fixing the Location Fix

Ten-centimeter GPS resolution is quite close to being here.

• by David Talbot

Rewriting Life

Machining Melodies

Software generates music from scratch.

• by Gregory T. Huang

Business Impact

Physiology's Hidden Genius

A pioneering female researcher journeys from the factory to the laboratory.

• by Lisa Scanlon

Intelligent Machines

Proof of Concept

Are today’s computer viruses tests of information warfare weapons?

• by Simson Garfinkel

Rewriting Life

Global Warning

Innovative processes, not just products, are targets for activists.

• by Michael Schrage

Business Impact

The Vision Thing

An inventor’s philanthropic mission is a lesson to companies that squander resources on patent lawsuits.

• by Seth Shulman

Curbing Peer-to-Peer Piracy

Intellectual-property expert Pamela Samuelson on fighting file sharing.

• by Carl Kaplan

Smart Bandage

How a smart bandage works.

• by Tracy Staedter