This Week in the Future, October 17-21, 2011
When you can scoop anything you like, as our best buddy (in our unsurprisingly robot-heavy dreams) the PR2 now can,...
When you can scoop anything you like, as our best buddy (in our unsurprisingly robot-heavy dreams) the PR2 now can, you’ve got some major choices to make. Genetically modified salmon, or the next Android superphone? Spend the weekend thinking about it, and get back to us.
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- Android Gets a Makeover With Ice Cream Sandwich
- $500,000 USDA Grant Could Help Genetically Modified Salmon Company Stay Afloat
- PR2 Robot Learns to Scoop Up Distasteful Matter
And don’t forget to check out our other favorite stories of the week:
THE SEARCH FOR ALIEN LIFE
- The Search for Alien Life Is On
- SETI’s Seth Shostak on How, When, and Where We Will Meet Aliens
- Searching for Life in All the Right Places
BRILLIANT 10
- Brilliant 10: The Neuron Observer
- Brilliant 10: The Chemical Catcher
- Brilliant 10: The Sludge Miner
- Brilliant 10: Molecular Filmmaker
OTHER GREAT STORIES
- Archive Gallery: The History of Recorded Music
- The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, October 17-21
- So, Um, Why Does the New Google Phone Have a Barometer in It?
- Aerospace Entrepreneur/Motelier Robert Bigelow Thinks the Chinese Will Take Over the Moon
- Pretty Space Pics: A Skywatcher Captures the Cosmos Blowing a Beautiful Gas Bubble
- Check Out American Photo, a Totally Redesigned Haven for Admirers of the Image
- First-Ever Pics of a Star Cluster on the Far Side of the Galactic Center
- The New World’s Thinnest Phone: The Motorola Droid RAZR