May 29 2008
There is a lot of discussion at the moment about the future of human space travel; where will we go, and what will we do. Some don’t want us to go to Mars, others want us going to asteroids, and others want us going back to the Moon.
May 29 2008
Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia has boosted supply to help meet the world\’s need for fuel and may further increase output later if needed, a senior Gulf OPEC source said on Wednesday.
May 28 2008
Many strains of monkey become naturally infected with viruses that are related to HIV. These viruses are known collectively as SIV and naturally infected monkeys do not develop AIDS. It is hoped that understanding why monkeys naturally infected with SIV...
May 28 2008
Students in public schools have math scores that are just as good if not better than those of students in private schools, according to a new national study.The research focused across several years on 9,791 kindergarten through fifth-grade students.
May 28 2008
Is your mouth not watering over the concept designs pictured above? Well, how do two versions of it sound—a gas-electric hybrid entrant for the Automotive X Prize, and an all-electric for (almost) the rest of us? Yeah, we thought so. Best part: A...
May 25 2008
We have no idea what, exactly, Hillary Clinton was thinking when she referred to the assassination of Bobby Kennedy in explaining her decision to keep on campaigning when it looks like there is virtually no hope of her winning the Democratic...
May 25 2008
My first inclination was to think that this was an isolated situation of the evil Islamists being ever more evil. Then I remembered Jesus Camp. So I started digging a little further and discovered that this problem is not new, not isolated and, sadly,...
May 25 2008
In February, 1971, Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell experienced the little understood phenomenon sometimes called the “Overview Effect”.
May 25 2008
Rotating astronauts for a lengthy period provided researcher Suzanne Nooij with better insight into how \’space sickness\’ develops, the nausea and disorientation experienced by many astronauts.
May 24 2008
A group of Korean researchers are working on an artificial virus. That might sound like time to dispatch both James Bond AND Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Ultimate Mad Scientist Destruction Crossover, but here in the real world it turns out that: a)...