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Engage tractor beam!
Alas, it’s only good for trapping and moving protein molecules, not spaceships. Still, even the scientist being quoted explains it by referencing Star Trek.
The first sentence I wrote today was…
He woke to grey morning light filtering through a dirt- and bird dropping-smeared skylight above the bed.
Photo of the Day: Standing on Guard
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Nanodrugs cure prostate cancer in mice
Some very very promising news on the cancer-fighting front.
What made that asteroid break up?
I love stories like this, about mysterious happenings in the outer solar system…mainly because I’ve read so many science fiction stories where just such a seemingly innocuous astronomical event proves to be Earth-shattering in its implications (sometimes literally).
Patent silliness
Advertisements sometimes refer to “Our patented solution to…” or “Patented protection from…”. The implication is that if something has been patented, it must be good. As the song from Porgy and Bess puts it (in an admittedly different context), “It ain’t necessarily so.” But first, a word or two about patents. A patent is “a …
The first sentence I wrote today was…
Lor grunted and set off through the darkness of the park toward the yellow glow of the fog-shrouded city.
Photo of the Day: Behind the Glass
The control room of the CBC Saskatchewan radio studio from which The Afternoon Edition issues, just minutes before I went on today for my biweekly appearance with Colin Grewar to talk about science. (What I talked about will, of course, appear as my weekly science column on this blog tomorrow.)
Bonus Photo of the Weekend: Me, Singing "Just A Closer Walk"
Here I am singing “Just A Closer Walk” with the alumni chorus at Western Christian College‘s 2006 Homecoming over the weekend. As I mentioned earlier, it was my 30th reunion; most of the people (though not all) you see behind me in this picture were my classmates. An alumni chorus, made up of any current …
Filtering viruses out of your blood
This could be big, even though it’s aimed at the very, very tiny: a portable device for filtering viruses out of the blood–smallpox, Ebola, avian flu, you name it. (Via Transterrestrial Musings.)
What’s wrong with this sentence?
From New Scientist’s Latest Headlines site: The silence of a frigid, perpetually dark crater at the Moon’s South Pole will soon be shattered. A new mission, announced by NASA on Monday, aims to smash an SUV-sized impactor straight into the crater in late 2008. No, no it won’t. No matter how big the impactor or …
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