Everyone has different holiday traditions–and almost all of them involve food. You will therefore be as relieved to discover as I was that science is doing its best to ensure that our holiday favorites continue to delight us. The Sensory Analysis Lab at the Prince Edward Island Food Technology Centre has helped insure that islanders’ …
With luck, on Christmas Day, we’ll be able to say “The Beagle has landed!”.
I’ve read so much garbage about Tolkien’s work somehow glorifying war, garbage that ignores the fact that Tolkien fought in the trenches in the First World War and lost all but one of his closest childhood friends there. This columnist gets it right.
The first privately built piloted, rocket-powered craft broke the sound barrier on its maiden flight. Next destination, space?
This week’s science column… A Century of Flight Copyright 2003 by Edward Willett This week, as people are flying home (or wherever) for Christmas, I hope they spare a thought for the two bicycle makers who made it all possible 100 years ago. On December 17, 1903, at 10:35 a.m., a fragile craft took off …
Old science fiction ideas have a way of showing up as current news, have you ever noticed?
This discovery could lead to new ways to treat alcoholism–and improve society for everyone.
Here are “10 Reasons to Put Humans Back on the Moon”.
I’ve written books aboutPowerPoint; I’m so ashamed.
Well, this is a surprise; the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reviews Heinlein’s first novel, recently issued for the first time.
Scientists may have taken the first steps toward an effective Ebola treatment–or, at least, a treatment more effective than anything they have right now, which is bupkus. Maybe I’ll get a chance to revise my Ebola book.
I don’t care who’s doing it, as long as someone is!
