By Paul Adams Posted 10.09.2009 at 1:21 pm 0 Comments

This Week in the Future, October 5-9, 2009:  Illustration by Baarbarian
The littlest gold miners, the tidiest bees, and the least fun Wii game ever. Welcome to this week's Future.

Some of our favorite stories this week:

  • The Chandra telescope caught a juicy paparazzi shot of two black holes smooching.
  • At Tokyo's annual geek-tech conference, a robot croons.
  • Scientists figure out how to genetically engineer bees that are especially keen on doing housework -- hivework? -- to fight off the mites that cause Colony Collapse Disorder.
  • Scientists figure out how to genetically engineer bacteria to mine for gold. Scientists then retire to a private island.
  • A new $20 million effort to enhance airport security entails passengers standing on a Wii Balance board while they wait to get on their planes.

Illustration by the great Baarbarian

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