Along with the Passenger pigeon, the thylacine and the dodo, new stories about the woolly mammoth just won’t go away. You know − the one where they bring them back from extinction. Termed ‘de-extinction’, scientists are talking about taking the...
Injecting particles into the stratosphere to shade and cool the Earth will never stop climate change. This is the dramatic claim made in the July 2014 issue of Nature Climate Change by an international group of prominent scientists. In theory, the amount of solar...
Techno-utopianism (n.) − any ideology based on the belief that advances in science and technology will eventually bring about a utopia, or at least help to fulfil one or another utopian ideal. It is tempting to dismiss techno-utopian views as the realm of fringe...
Nanotechnology marks one of the first times where ‘upstream engagement’ has become a central part of government technology policy in many OECD countries, including Australia. Joly and Kaufmann define public engagement as “a form of two-way...
Let’s start with a really basic proposition: emerging technologies often represent unknown risks to human health and the environment; before these technologies are introduced into the body or environment, the safety of these new technologies and products must be...