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, …
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 …
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”!
It will probably come as no surprise to you that when Hollywood tackles scientific topics, it almost always gets them wrong. But as Sid Perkins describes in a recent article in Science News Online, some scientists and teachers are using movie science to teach science and promote an interest in science. There are innumerable examples of bad movie …
“Robots to be surgeons of the future” says this story.
From stories like this one, about NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft, scheduled to launch on December 30 and to fire a copper projectile into the surface of comet Tempel 1 on July 4. The 372-kilogram “impactor” will hit at approximately 37,000 kph and could leave a crater the size of a football field. Which immediately got …
Canada’s first synchrotron is officially open for business–right here in Saskatchewan.
