Albert Einstein appeared on the scientific stage so suddenly, so unexpectedly, that it is impossible not to wonder whether his successor might already be toiling away in a lab or patent office somewhere. If Einstein 2.0 is out there, though, how would ...
Subscribe to Frankenstein! Now 78% off the cover price! The most concrete gripe concerns our claim that "in 1926 writer Hugo Gernsback founded Amazing Stories, the first true science-fiction magazine." Newitz says this honor actually belongs to Mary ...
Why must people interject the "global warming" nonsenese into everything. It's as ridiculous as the product being sold.... The rediculous part about the interjecting of global warming here is that it doesn't make winters milder. A higher mean global ...
Did you ever wonder how Google is scanning all of those books that are going in their massive Google Book Search project? Well, you can get a pretty good clue by looking at the second and third pages of The Gentleman's Magazine: the scanning is being ...
Controlling inflammation could be the key to a healthy old age. 12.04.2007 Researchers triangulate the source of the dinosaur destroyer. 12.03.2007 To save the environment, imitate mobile homes and go pre-fab. 11.29.2007 Time to inject some mind ...
Well, okay, things might just change a little bit between now and then. I'm actually sort of surprised that NASA would even try to pin a month on this event. Based on the number of things that could change or go wrong between now and then (and on the ...
The inside story of how scientists saved innocent medical workers from the firing squad. 11.26.2007 Can a green building offset the potentially giant impact of spaceflight? 11.26.2007 Bones help fix themselves by controlling the body's metabolism. 11.23 ...
As if reputations hadn't absorbed enough slings and arrows, Chinese manufacturers now take the dubious honor for having made a toy that when eaten—as by small children who don't know any better—turns into the party drug GHB. The fact that some strange ...
This story is almost too strange. Some cells taken from a woman's cervical cancer continued to divide and live on, indefinitely, through today and—to all appearances—far into the future. She died 56 years ago, yet the cells from her body are still used ...
The Independent reports on the discovery of potent antibiotic powers in a combination of smectite and illite excavated from French volcanic mountains—yes, clay that can cure disease. In lab tests, the magic muck wiped out 99 percent of ...
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