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A Defense of Scientific Inaccuracy
Making science accurate in movies without taking out the wonderment Science has always had a hard time fitting in movies. From the Terminator...
Read & DiscussThe Right Stuff
Three things our beleaguered NASA isn't getting wrong NASA gets a lot of flack these days, and it's not without reason. Despite the $20.2...
Read & DiscussSpatial Computing, Sci-Fi Style
The technology seen in Minority Report is not as far off as you think Before PCs and laptops, computers filled entire rooms. In the future,...
Read & DiscussA New Day for Exoskeletons
How a previously lost idea for superhuman strength may have found its way It's 1965. Bob Dylan's gone electric. Astronaut Edward Higgins White...
Read & DiscussDispatches from a Homesick Robot
Who is Twittering on behalf of the Mars Phoenix Lander? Among the exclamations of Mad Men withdrawal and the pro-Obama celebrations on my...
Read & DiscussFly Swatter
The scientific community reacts to Palin's knock on fruit fly research During her first address on Congressional policy in Pittsburgh last...
Read & DiscussKnow Your Intelligence Agencies
Introducing ... the National Reconnaissance Office! The so-called U.S. Intelligence Community consists of 16 agencies--an alphabet soup that...
Read & DiscussPolitical Science
The Bush administration spent its tenure burying science. Will Obama or McCain resurrect it? Over the last seven years and change, we have born...
Read & DiscussEyes To The Skies, Guys
Forget 2012. A Rapture-like alien drive-by is days away! Fear October 14th. Yeah, today. According to an Australian psychic called Blossom...
Read & DiscussThe Space Elevator Gets a Lift
The fabled elevator to space is a surprisingly pragmatic idea. In November, the Japanese give it a timeline. Imagine, if you will, a new kind...
Read & DiscussSpaceport America
Your options for commercial space travel (and the astronomical price tags) Arthur C. Clarke, who correctly predicted a great deal of things...
Read & DiscussWhy Aren't Aquanauts Famous?
In August 2007, a pair of Russian submersibles, both inauspiciously named Mir, descended 4 kilometers beneath the Arctic ice and planted a...
Read & DiscussThe LHC's Secret Weapon
The Collider's Data Infrastructure Will Be the Real Breakthrough On Wednesday, scientists in Geneva shot a proton beam through a 17-mile...
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