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The latest beta release of the next Mozilla Firefox browser is unleashed. Read our review. Plus: Having trouble finding a Firefox 2 download? We’ve got links. In Monkey Bites.

In the battle against cancer, saving two patients out of 17 may seem modest enough. But researchers see hope that using genetically altered immune cells to attack tumors — as was done in this study — may hold the key to eventually defeating various cancers.

Signing the Kyoto Protocols is one thing, adhering to it something else again. Greenhouse gas emissions rise for the industrialized nations, who look like they’re going to have a hard time reigning in their waste to meet 2012 goals.

Readers disagree that unions have a limited role in the white-collar workplace, mention ways to make Ubuntu more user friendly, and ask for video games with multpile save options.

In the game Ragdoll Avalance II, control the life of a very floppy stick figure with a low tolerance for falling blades. In Table of Malcontents.

A new four-point belt from Ford will inflate when there is an accident, but some silly folks won’t wear it even if it could save their lives. In Autopia.

A new Bluetooth headset claims a wireless range of 30 feet. In Gear Factor.

The lead author on a paper outlining a way to derive embryonic stem cells without damaging embryos responds to the piling-on of enemies as well as people he thought were friends. In Bodyhack.

As the show’s 40th anniversary looms, here’s a tour d’horizon of the melodramatic, outlandish and iconic phenomenon that captured the hearts of geeks everywhere. By Lore Sjöberg.

When 11-year-old Tomohiro Yasui fashioned paper replacements for his fighting robots, he had no idea what he was starting. By Lisa Katayama from Wired magazine.