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A drug to block Alzheimer’s?
Maybe. If this pans out, I may have to revise my children’s book on the disease.
Titan’s surface mystifies
The images from Cassini’s close encounter with Titan yesterday are spectacularly…mystifying. January’s Huygens probe drop is going to be very interesting indeed.
Hobbits found!
OK, technically it’s a previously unknown species of three-foot-tall human, who co-existed on this planet with us just 18,000 years ago. But even the scientists who made the discovery are calling them “hobbits”!
Bad movie science
It will probably come as no surprise to you that when Hollywood tackles scientific topics, it almost always gets them wrong. But as Sid Perkins describes in a recent article in Science News Online, some scientists and teachers are using movie science to teach science and promote an interest in science. There are innumerable examples of bad movie …
Another SF headline
“Robots to be surgeons of the future” says this story.
Where do you get your ideas?
From stories like this one, about NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft, scheduled to launch on December 30 and to fire a copper projectile into the surface of comet Tempel 1 on July 4. The 372-kilogram “impactor” will hit at approximately 37,000 kph and could leave a crater the size of a football field. Which immediately got …
The Saskatchewan synchrotron (try saying that five times fast)
Canada’s first synchrotron is officially open for business–right here in Saskatchewan.
More than 7,000 would-be astronauts
Wow. More than 7,000 people have told Richard Branson they would pay 115,000 pounds to go into space when Virgin Galactic starts flying in 2008…including William Shatner, Star Trek‘s Captain Kirk. Appropriate, since the first Virgin Galactic tourist craft is going to be named Enterprise.
Da Vinci Project still on track
So says Brian Feeney, the man who plans to ride the rocket into sub-orbit.
Colored coinage
I can’t wait to get my hands on one of these. (And yes, I realize that the circulation versions will be somewhat smaller than the one in the picture…) You never know what’ll be on your Canadian quarter these days–I don’t know exactly how many designs are out there, but there are a lot. This …
Robot population to grow…
…is, of course, the science-fictional headline of the week.
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