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Is time travel possible?
Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku contemplates the plausibility of time travel. It’s not as impossible as we used to think.
Turning blood into stem cells?
A small English company says it can turn ordinary blood into stem cells. If these claims hold up, there could be a medical revolution just around the corner.
Hubble slide show
If you’ve got a broadband connection, sit back and enjoy this slide show of the Hubble Space Telescope’s greatest hits, complete with musical accompaniment.
Thanks for the memory
Inexpensive computer memory made out of plastic! Ain’t chemistry grand?
Ebola and the apes
The great apes are in serious trouble–and Ebola may be partly to blame.
Write like an Egyptian!
Turn your name (or any other word) into Egyptian hieroglyphics with this handy Hieroglyphics Generator.
Man-made life
For as long as I remember, there have been jokes and pop-culture references to scientists creating life in a test tube–usually with the understanding that such a thing was an impossibility outside of horror movies. But last week scientists in the U.S. announced their intention to create the first completely artificial form of life, a …
This week’s science column…
SCIENCE Edward Willett Glow, little GloFish, glimmer, glimmer… In January, a U.S. company hopes to offer for sale the first pet fish genetically engineered to glow under ultraviolet light. This has alarmed some people, but scientists have been creating glowing organisms for several years now–and their ability to do so has revolutionized many fields of …
Pushing the frontier
I’m bullish on privately funded spaceflight…though it may just be wishful thinking on my part. But darn it, if the government can’t do it, then somebody else has to!
What he said (again)…
Once again, Orson Scott Card says what I wish I’d said regarding the use of intemperate language and the assumption of sordid motives when talking about political opponents.
They like me! They really like me!
My children’s non-fiction book Ebola Virus has been named one of 2003’s Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 by The National Science Teachers Association & The Children’s Book Council. Yay!
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