SCIENCE Edward Willett Today’s top automobile tech During the Academy Awards telecast on Sunday, I noticed for the first time an ad from a major car company promoting its development of hydrogen-powered cars. Those are probably still 10 years away, but other technological advances for automobiles are here now. In an article in Spectrum, published …
Rogers Cadenhead takes AP to task for its take on the Pew study on Internet usage. 2.7 million bloggers sounds like a lot to me, but what do I know?
Looks like information may survive inside a black hole after all–and Stephen Hawking loses a bet.
You know, when you start looking, the news is just full of stories with headlines that look like bad SF stories from the pulp era. LIke this one about the hordes of gigantic crabs on their way to invade Europe.
Find out about books that have been banned through the years by various authorities for various reasons–then read them online! A number of SF titles included, by the way.
Get your weekly postcard of Saturn here, courtesy of the Cassini spacecraft!
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Now, this is funny!
I’d like to believe in the U.N. I really would. But stories like this one make it difficult. A billion dollars here, a billion dollars there–pretty soon they add up to real money.
Exciting news on the HIV front. Apparently humans also have this protein, but it isn’t as active…yet. Scientists hope to change that.
Peterson Space Battlelab (another straight-from-an-SF-novel-name) is planning to demonstrate itsNear Space Maneuvering Vehicle, essentially a high-tech airship that’s designed to begin the exploitation of the hitherto apparently under-exploited “near space” region, between 65,000 feet and 100 kilometres (don’t blame me for the mixed metric/non-metric scales, that’s what the press release says). Interesting!
What use is an international organization that can be driven out of a country so easily?
