Driving through the Dutch countryside near the town of Hilversum, I have an overwhelming feeling that the surrounding water will wash out the road, given that my car is almost level with it. So it’s ...

This article was written by Eric J. Topol, MD, a professor of genomics at the Scripps Research Institute. Topol's new book, The Creative Destruction of Medicine (Basic Books), was released February 1, ...

In my Scientific American column this month I mused on the increasing urgency of our need, as a species, to rescue everything we’ve ever recorded on magnetic tape. All those billions of hours of VHS ...