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.
The Pentagon-sponsored robot race ended without a winner–none of the autonomous vehicles made it further than seven miles from the starting line.
How often have you heard that the Great Wall of China is “the only” or “one of the only” manmade objects that can be seen from space? Well, it’s a myth–and even China has admitted it, now that it has sent its own taikonauts into space.
MOSCOW (AP) — Orion, the Big Dipper and Andromeda could be joined in the heavens by ads for soft drinks and cigarettes if a Russian inventor’s device catches on. Alexander Lavrynov, a spacecraft designer, said he has patented a device for putting advertising into space that would be seen from Earth, Interfax news agency reported …
