My new novel Lost in Translation(Cover art by Jill Bauman) Just got my authors’ copies of Lost in Translation–nice hardcovers, complete with dust jackets. I’m actually surprised by how short the book seems, even though it’s more than 300 pages. It seemed long enough when I was writing it… I do like the artwork better …
With Kyoto in the news and the search for non-polluting forms of energy intensifying, the time may be ripe for a whole new technology–and as it happens, there’s a company in Australia that’s got one all lined up. It’s called the Solar Tower, and I confess that the real reason I wanted to write about …
From Nature:Engineers devise invisibility shield. OK, it won’t let you hide something the size of a human (or a starship) from visible light–but it might make some things invisible to long-range sensors–er, I mean, radar. And it involves a “plasmonic cover.” If that isn’t Star Trekish, I don’t know what is…
No, not Genesis as in “the creation of everything,” but Genesis as in the solar-wind probe that crashed into the Utah mud when its parachutes failed to open back in September. Scientists are successfully extracting samples of the solar wind from the damaged spacecraft–good news!
Looks like we might not need to invoke some mysterious “dark energy” to explain the universe’s accelerating rate of expansion. Instead, the universe may simply be suffering from a gravity leak. Well, that’s a relief. Anyone have a bicycle patch?
Japan’s space agency is drawing up plans for a manned moon base and its own space shuttle. The more the merrier, I say!
More giant figures found in Peru. Paging Velikovsky…
Cosmos-1, designed to test the capability of solar-sail technology is about to launch and set sail–literally–in orbit.
Here’s a fascinating article from NASA about surface conditions on Titan. Infrared rainbows, liquid methane showers, rushing rivers, towering waves…sounds downright homey, as long as you’re dressed for the -290 F weather.
The iPod is old hat. Here’s the latest thing in music playback: a toothbrush that transmits music through the jawbone.
You’ve heard of nanotech, but here’s a story about vinotech: the science and technology that is transforming winemaking and giving the new-world producers who use it a leg up over their tradition-bound old-world counterparts.
It’s “The Greatest Saturn Portrait…Yet” from the Cassini space probe folks.
