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In the current weakened economy, financing isn’t plentiful and fall-back jobs are scarce. But there is still plenty of opportunity out there for entrepreneurs.

The physicist and comic book enthusiast outlines technologies that were once imagined by science fiction writers that have now found social utility.

Medical science has developed a greater awareness of the link between hormonal changes and cancer. Could this information explain not just why we get the disease, but when?

Medical science is no longer in the dark about how certain cancers are able to stage a comeback. But shedding light on the cancer stem cell theory has forced us […]

The previous director of the National Cancer Institute wanted to banish suffering and death from cancer by 2015. Current director Harold Varmus says this claim was not based on reality, […]

Seemingly every year there are new reports that something we consume or use on a daily basis is carcinogenic. But what exactly does that mean on a biological level?

The Cancer Genome Atlas project, already several years underway, is transforming the way scientists think about and treat cancer.

There are some dramatic cases in which cancers have regressed or gone away on their own, which raises the bigger question of why some early cancers progress and others don’t.

Cancer Panel: Why do virtually all men over the age of 90 develop some amount of prostate cancer whereas heart cancer is practically unheard of?

Author Kevin Kelly, along with Tao Yang, Professor of Computer Science at the UC-Santa Barbara, led a panel discussion on the uses of computational thinking in search technology at Big […]

Early science fiction predicted jet packs and flying cars—a revolution in energy. Instead we got cell phones and laptop computers—a revolution in information.

The Foreign Affairs editor explains why China’s growing influence in Africa could be a good thing for U.S. and the world.

Will a new “Beijing consensus” replace Washington as the dominant economic role model for the developing world, or will the democratizing powers of technology put an end to authoritarian state […]

Washington will have to learn to lead by example and competence rather than mere assertion of dominance. And the American public is going to have to “grow up.”

Journalist, philanthropist, entrepreneur, and astronaut, Esther Dyson describes how the future of search will be verbs, not nouns, as people are looking to take direct action with their queries.

Deborah Schrag: A panel discussion highlighting cutting-edge cancer research.

The previous director of the National Cancer Institute wanted to banish suffering and death from cancer by 2015. Current director Harold Varmus says this claim was not based on reality, […]

Seemingly every year there are new reports that something we consume or use on a daily basis is carcinogenic. But what exactly does that mean on a biological level?

The Cancer Genome Atlas project, already several years underway, is transforming the way scientists think about and treat cancer.

There are some dramatic cases in which cancers have regressed or gone away on their own, which raises the bigger question of why some early cancers progress and others don’t.

A panel discussion highlighting cutting-edge cancer research.

One in three Americans are diagnosed in their lifetime with cancer, a derangement of normal cell growth in which cells grow in antisocial ways, crossing natural tissue boundaries.

Deborah Schrag: Why do virtually all men over the age of 90 develop some amount of prostate cancer whereas heart cancer is practically unheard of?

The previous director of the National Cancer Institute wanted to banish suffering and death from cancer by 2015. Current director Harold Varmus says this claim was not based on reality, […]

Breakthroughs: Cancer, the third in a three-part Big Think series on the major diseases of our time.

Seemingly every year there are new reports that something we consume or use on a daily basis is carcinogenic. But what exactly does that mean on a biological level?

The Cancer Genome Atlas project, already several years underway, is transforming the way scientists think about and treat cancer.

Siddhartha Mukherjee: Why do virtually all men over the age of 90 develop some amount of prostate cancer whereas heart cancer is practically unheard of?

One in three Americans are diagnosed in their lifetime with cancer, a derangement of normal cell growth in which cells grow in antisocial ways, crossing natural tissue boundaries.