Adam Keiper

Gordon Moore’s tech vision changed modern times. He wants his giving to change life 10,000 years from now.

EPPC’s New Atlantis journal celebrates ten years of concentrating on the human side of scientific progress.

Monday's decision from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia halting all federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research…

On Dec. 29, 1959, Richard P. Feynman gave an after-dinner talk at an annual American Physical Society meeting in Pasadena,…

Historians, accustomed to rummaging through document-stuffed archives, are now worrying about the future of the past. Our lives, they note,…

Human by Michael S. Gazzaniga (Ecco, 447 pages, $27.50) What is it that makes us human — that sets us…

It was five years ago this month, on February 1, 2003, that the space shuttle Columbia, returning from two weeks…

A Culture of Improvement: Technology and the Western Millenniumby Robert Friedel, MIT, 588 pages, $39.95 There’s a certain dark pleasure…

Growing ranks of academics, analysts, and advocacy groups are focusing their attentions on the social and ethical implications of nanoscale…

The latest issue of The New Atlantis includes major essays on Man, Mind and Machine and the challenge to define what…

  The potential merging of mind and machine thrills, frightens, and intrigues us. For decades, experiments at the border between…

The latest issue of The New Atlantis includes major essays on the future of modern medicine, the moral education of our…