Hey, looks like my book Genetics Demystified has picked up its first reader review at Amazon, and guess what? He liked it, he really liked it! Says TheBookGuy: This was my first venture into the Demystified series, and it was just what I was looking for. I’m not a genetics engineer, if I was, I …
This sounds really interesting: The new solutions may also add a better understanding of tachyons in String Theory. Tachyons correspond to unstable higher energy states in String Theory. Clarkson and Mann’s solutions are perturbatively the lowest-energy states in their asymptotic class, meaning that the two may have found what could possibly be the ground state …
…in Arizona.
It looks like my science fiction novel Lost in Translation is going to be coming out in mass-market paperback from DAW Books! I had a phone call to that effect this morning from Martin H. Greenberg and John Helfers at Tekno Books, which packaged Lost in Translation for Five Star. This is absolutely terrific news. …
Science is not all about what happened millions of years ago, insights into the structure of matter, or new methods of space travel. Sometimes, science is about very down-to-earth things…like the effect of receiving flowers on our emotional well-being–and how to keep those flowers fresher after we receive them. Flower-giving is a natural topic for …
From the U.K.’s Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council: A Chinese astronomer from the University of St Andrews has fine-tuned Einstein’s groundbreaking theory of gravity, creating a ‘simple’ theory which could solve a dark mystery that has baffled astrophysicists for three-quarters of a century. According to the scientists, their “simple” theory explains with ease difficult …
Reports the CBC: Researchers in Saskatchewan have discovered a way to block a pathway in the brain’s pleasure receptors that are involved in drug addiction. The team hopes the findings will lead to a universal therapy that works regardless of what drug an addict abuses. Intriguing…
A slime mould that avoids light has been put in charge of a six-legged robot’s movement, creating a robot that’s scared of the light. Up next after slime-bots: cat-bots that avoid water and climb trees in the presence of dogs; rabbit-bots that freeze up when threatened, then run like the dickens; and elephant-bots that are …
Or, to put it another way, it’s the Science Fiction Headline of the Day: New Antigravity Solution Could Enable Space Travel Near Speed Of Light. I don’t know what to make of this, except to note that this is a press released issued by the scientist in question himself. I guess we’ll have to see …
There’s been a new breakthrough in computer chip lithography–and it’s way ahead of schedule. A new computer chip lithography method under development at Rochester Institute of Technology has led to imaging capabilities beyond that previously thought possible. Leading a team of engineering students, Bruce Smith, RIT professor of microelectronic engineering and director of the Center …
Worldwide Aeros hopes to have a prototype flying luxury hotel–a massive helium-filled airship–ready by 2010. Have I mentioned I love airships? I’d buy a ticket to fly on this thing in an instant.
A 19th-century mechanical computer built out of 21st-century plastic toy construction bricks. Just because.
