At the Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives in Rockville, Maryland, they synthesized a virus in just a fortnight The ultimate goal is creating useful microbes from scratch. But what might bioterrorists do with this ability?
A cure for diabetes?
It works in mice, and patient trials are planned.
Faith of our authors
Here’s a fascinating list detailing the religious faiths of various science fiction and fantasy authors.
Playing 20–OK, 25–Questions
The New York Times looks at 25 provocative science questions, from “Does Science Matter?” to “Do Paranormal Phenomena Exist?”.
This week’s science column…
…is online! Topic (apropos if you live in Western Canada; perhaps less so if you’re still enjoying autumn and haven’t already plunged into winter like we have): Hot Chocolate.
Hot chocolate
Come this Sunday, some 50,000 people will be sitting in the stands at Taylor Field for the Grey Cup, their minds focused on one thing–how much they’d love a cup of hot cocoa. They needn’t worry about indulging, in light of new research that shows that cocoa has an even higher concentration of antioxidants than …
Not a Very Bright Idea
Jeremy Stangroom has some cogent thoughts on the proposal that secularists start calling themselves “brights.”
SF Canada site updated
I’ve completed the latest update to the SF Canada site. This time around, we feature an article from J. Brian Clarke “On Androids, Cloning and the Afterlife,” my short story “Je Me Souviens,” and, of course, the latest news from SF Canada members. Also be sure to check out the New Books page for the …
Website is back!
My Web site is finally back up on its new server. Stop by!
Where no one has gone before…
Voyager 1 may have reached an important boundary in space.
Earworms
My Web site should be up Wednesday sometime. In the meantime, here’s this week’s science column, which I normally would have online by now. Interested in receiving my science column every week? Visit my Web site, once it’s back up, and you’ll see a form to subscribe on every column page. ******* SCIENCE By Edward …
Maybe I should get my old job back…
The Saskatchewan Science Centre (for which I used to be communications officer and for which I can still honestly say I wrote almost all of the exhibit copy–I still do most of their new exhibit copy on a freelance basis) and the Da Vinci Project have announced a major partnership. If I got my old …
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