America at 300: Imagining the next half-century of change

Moon bases, living to 100 and (finally!) flying cars. What 2076 and our future will look like may be stranger than we expect.

Genetic engineering can go wrong: programmable biology without rules could end up as a nightmare

Unlike computer code that sits on a device and does what it's told, lab-engineered genes can multiply on their own. While ...

AI coding has split software engineers into tribes. Meet the fans, skeptics — and those in between.

The discourse around AI often focuses on those who entirely embrace — or deeply despise — the tech. For engineers, the truth ...