Astronomers have discovered a vast gassy limb of the Milky Way that had previously been overlooked. Hey, it’s only 77,000 light years long and several thousand light years thick. Who can blame them for missing it? Me, I lose my car keys from time to time.
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Way to go, Phil!
They’ve discovered a new feathered meat-eating dinosaur in Alberta; Philip Currie says its the first new meat-eating dinosaur to be found there in 14 years.
Not Jesus’ brothers and sisters
“Saviour siblings” have been created for the first time: siblings who can provide stem cells for transplantation to children suffering from leukemia and a rare type of anemia. You know, I’ve always been rather sanguine about cloning. This isn’t cloning, but this one I’ll have to think about. At first blush–it bothers me. How’d you …
Everything’s bad for you…
…even vitamins. At least, if you’re a mouse.
Growing new teeth
Here’s a story with bite.
Stunt pilots to go after space probe
This is a cool story: Hollywood stunt pilots are being called on to capture the Genesis space probe from mid-air when it re-enters the atmosphere with its cargo of particles of the solar wind in four months.
Nanotech doesn’t necessarily mean tiny robots
This story about a miniscule DNA computer (as opposed to, what? A giant DNA computer filling several rooms?) doesn’t use the word “nanotechnology,” but I have to admit I wonder why. It’s technology, it’s definitely on the nanoscale. Is the term “nanotechnology” becoming limited to non-organic devices? That would be silly. If I may quote …
ET speculation
Dr. Michio Kaku talks about the physics of extra-terrestrial civilizations in this interesting–and obviously SF-related–article from Astrobiology Magazine.
POD people–NOT a SF headline
The Globe and Mail has an article on the attack of the POD people on traditional publishing.
Canadian Shakespeareans in space
William Shatner…Christopher Plummer…Leslie Nielsen…Lorne Green…space, it seems, is the final frontier for Canadian Shakespearean actors.
If we can’t get to the moon…
…then the moon will have to come to us–bearing a mineral new to science, dubbed hapkeite.
The Science of Hockey
I understand from usually reliable sources that there are some rather important hockey games being played this week. This works out well for me, because hockey is chock-full of interesting scientific phenomena. I am not the first to notice this. The Exploratorium in San Francisco, the granddaddy of all science centres, has devoted an extensive …
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