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biotechnology

Will the next pandemic be a bioweapon?

BIOWEAPONS: The combination of astonishing historical facts and compelling analyses of science policy makes medical professor Stig S. Frøland's book on biological warfare a compelling reading experience. For example, good death microbes should have high mortality, preferably be paralyzing, have a high infectiousness, be easy to produce and suitable for creating fear.

Economic motives can ruin artificial intelligence

KI: What happens if we create something that is more intelligent than ourselves, a machine that might do something completely different than we want?

The coming technological decade

Will increased control or monitoring in this decade eventually leave more to algorithms that carry out actions themselves based on so-called "actionable intelligence"?

Study, understand and use nature

Broadly oriented science journalist Amina Khan shows how nature can teach us a thing or two about sustainable technology.