Brazil, Latin American farmers targeted by biotech
Mark Garrison Apr 3, 2013
Monsanto reports earnings and a lot of the company’s growth is based on Latin America.
Better, stronger, faster: How close are we to becoming cyborgs?
Will Oremus Mar 15, 2013
Science fiction loves the merger of the human body and machine. In mid-March 2013, what's the status of the merger? Will Oremus, a writer for Slate who has been working on a series about using tech to build better people, joins Marketplace Tech host David Brancaccio to explain how far we've come and where we are headed.
Telepathic rats communicate via computer
Will Oremus Mar 1, 2013
A lab at Duke University has taken us one step closer to mind-melding, using rats.
The medical Internet of things and the future of health care
David Brancaccio Feb 8, 2013
How will health care be transformed by smart devices, continuous patient monitoring, and tele-medicine?
Always on (the Internet) in 2013, and controlling a robotic arm with a brain implant
Ben Johnson Dec 31, 2012
Molly Wood of CNET gives her tech predictions for 2013, and Professor Andrew Schwartz describes research that helped a paraplegic woman control a robot arm with a brain implant.
YouTube to pull back funding, and skin healing plastic
David Brancaccio Nov 13, 2012
YouTube may slash funding to over half of its new channels and a plastic that repairs itself like skin heals itself, but faster.
Monsanto pulls public radio into its greenwash
Heidi Siegelbaum Jun 26, 2009
American Public Media has been getting flogged recently by some of its listeners, the environmental website Grist, and others online for accepting...
Stop belching, Bessie! You're ruining the environment!
Heidi Siegelbaum Jul 8, 2008
What a riot! How complex is a story about:...
