Many common surgical operations, and chemotherapy for cancer, will become dangerous if we don't stop the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

If we end the tightly-packed factory farms for meat, and eat less meat, we will need fewer operations, and we will be less likely to die of an infection when we do need one.

Obama will direct the EPA to reduce use of hydrofluorocarbons, which are immensely powerful greenhouse gases.

A presidential candidate in Uganda has been placed under house arrest to stop him from holding public campaign rallies.

A microwave camera being developed at MIT can see people through walls.

What do we need to put in our walls to block this camera? I think screens on a window will probably block microwaves except perhaps for the lowest wavelengths.

A hospital sequences sick newborns' DNA to diagnose them in 26 hours.

The article suggests that in the future hospitals should sequence every baby's DNA. This could be a bad idea. There's a chance that the data will be medically helpful to them, a chance it will hurt their prospects for insurance, and a chance of exposing them to state injustice.