The SpaceShipOne crew have finally gotten their hands on the X-Prize’s $10,000,000.

If this is true, how come I’ve never been able to float?

Using genetically modified mice, California researchers are closing in on a better understanding of nicotine addiction. All public places in Saskatchewan will be smoke-free as of January 1. They’d better hurry.

Well, at last! I haven’t been able to post for a few days because of server problems at Blogger. But it looks like everything is sorted out.

Are you an optimist or a pessimist? The question may be more than just the small talk it sounds like. According to a new Dutch study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, optimists may live longer. The researchers, led by Dr. Erik J. Giltay of the Psychiatric Centre GGZ Delfland in Delft, The Neteherlands, …

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More details from Cassini’s flyby of Titan reveal it’s a strange and complex world.

Those hobbit-like humanoids recently discovered in Indonesia could still be around somewhere in the deep jungle…

“Hey!” I can hear you say (because I can hear through the Internet–what, can’t you?), “How come no writing diary in a very long time?” Busy, that’s why. Mostly not with writing. The show I’m directing for Regina Lyric Light Opera, We’ll Meet Again (“a humorous and nostalgic revue of the music and comedy of …

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It sounds like a very peculiar Western, but it’s really nanotechnology…and the stuff of SF just a few years ago.

Maybe. If this pans out, I may have to revise my children’s book on the disease.

The images from Cassini’s close encounter with Titan yesterday are spectacularly…mystifying. January’s Huygens probe drop is going to be very interesting indeed.

OK, technically it’s a previously unknown species of three-foot-tall human, who co-existed on this planet with us just 18,000 years ago. But even the scientists who made the discovery are calling them “hobbits”!