I live in the heart of the Great Plains–always have. The “Dirty ’30s” reduced the population of Saskatchewan by something like half–only in the past few years has it rebounded to the 1 million mark, which is where it was in the late 1920s. So it’s interesting to read this new research explaining how the …
It was a near-miss, in cosmic terms: an asteroid 30 metres in diameter zipped by Earth Thursday, only 43,000 kilometres out.
Here’s an interesting article about pterosaurs: new research says they were sophisticated flyers, not just gliders–and they could teach modern aircraft designers a thing or two!
The U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei is pushing for the U.S. to quit relying on the U.N. to deal with Iran and startdirect talks. But…but…wouldn’t that be, you know, “unilateralist”? And isn’t that a bad thing? I seem to remember someone making that argument about another Middle Eastern country starting with an I…
…steam-powered satellites!
Good news–I hope. Let’s see what “cutting-edge” fiction means in a magazine that seems to be trying to attract the less literarily oriented SF fans, as well.
Robots have been in the news recently, thanks to the Mars Rovers, and will continue to be in the news all summer, thanks to Will Smith’s new movie, I, Robot, suggested by the classic collection of science fiction stories by Isaac Asimov. Robots have been used in factories for decades, but increasingly they’re moving beyond …
It’s not just the war on terrorism we have to concentrate on; there’s a much older war, against disease-causing microbes like the tuberculosis bacterium, that is neverending.
Stanford and University of Edinburgh researchers join forces to prove that beer bubbles sometimes travel downward. Money quote: “Anyone that goes into a pub and orders a pint of Guinness is a scientist.” In that case, I look forward to earning a Nobel Prize.
The U.S. government removes some of the regulatory hurdles sub-orbital space vehicles would have to clear.
This is the first I’ve heard of “Brain Fingerprinting”; this article focuses on how it might be used to monitor Alzheimer’s, but check out the last paragraph: it’s been used to catch a serial killer and to free an innocent man. Say what? Why haven’t I run across this before? I’ll see what I can …
Turns out Pluto isn’t the furthest “planet” in the solar system after all: announcing Sedna.
