Environment
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...
Design
The 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...
Environment
Spatial 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,...
Business
A 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...
Environment
Dispatches 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...
News
Fly Swatter
The scientific community reacts to Palin's knock on fruit fly research During her first address on Congressional policy in Pittsburgh last...
News
Know Your Intelligence Agencies
Introducing ... the National Reconnaissance Office! The so-called U.S. Intelligence Community consists of 16 agencies--an alphabet soup that...
News
Political 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...
Environment
Eyes 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...
Environment
The 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...
Environment
Spaceport America
Your options for commercial space travel (and the astronomical price tags) Arthur C. Clarke, who correctly predicted a great deal of things...
Environment
Why 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...
Environment
The 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...
