- Skylon air-breathing jets could make getting into orbit easier
- Alien genetics may be just like ours
- Virus batteries
- Space elevators vs. sky hooks
- A-Pod insectabots
Five for the Future 04-02-09
- Robot body language
- BO biometrics and lie detection
- Wolphram Alpha will compute answers to factual questions
- Reading brainwaves to detect blunders
- Building a robotic octopus
Five for the Future 03-20-09
- EMP grenades
- Instant immunity to pathogens
- The sustainability solution to the Fermi Paradox?
- Robot muscles built from carbon nanotube aerogel
- DNA cryptography
Five for the Future 02-22-09
- Should Mars be treated as a wildlife preserve?
- Recent insights into animal intelligence
- Does memory editing threaten human identity?
- A Type 3 Kardashev civilization and simulated minds
- Bullet-dodging armor vs. guided bullets
End of the Week, End of the World 02-20-09
Add "dark comets" to the category of death-by-meteor-strike. Dark comets are comets that have already burned off their icy layers and so are too dark to see.