Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are barely visible robots. Bruce Donald, a professor of computer science and biochemistry at Duke, has been working on microrobots since 1992. His team has designed a set of MEMS that, in his words, "constitutes the first implementation of an untethered, multi-microrobotic system."¹

On June 3, the Reuters news service reported on a potential health threat that, interestingly enough, also sheds light on one of the major flaws of evolutionary theory.

Dr. Cameron Alexander of the University of Nottingham recently used polymers to build capsules that imitate bacterial cell walls. Bacteria can interact with these capsules, absorbing chemicals from them. In the May 29, 2008, article “Synthetic Copycat of Living Cell Underway: Life, But Not as We Know It?,” Science News quoted Dr.

Surtsey is an island volcanically formed just 45 years ago off the coast of Iceland. Science Illustrated has highlighted this unique island in its May/June 2008 issue. “Surtsey always provides surprises,” remarked one of the life scientists who study it. “We discover about 20 new species each year.”

The British science journal Nature has reported that scientists have discovered remains in a cave in northeastern Spain that are now considered “the earliest known remains of a human in Europe.”