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Book Review:Going Interstellar, edited by Jack McDevitt and Les Johnson.ISBN-13: 9781451637786Publisher: Baen BooksPublication date: 5/29/2012 Writing a book about humans colonizing space, I’ve recently learned, is a difficult thing; it takes a real effort to imagine humanity flourishing--or at least surviving in something other than a quasi-Medieval, post-Collapse form--some centuries in the future...
I remember going to bed one night when I was 11, seriously afraid I would not be alive in the morning. It was October, 1962, and the frightening cold war between the U.S.
Crabs are alien. Their eyes stand up on stalks, waving without apology. Their ten legs each grasp the world, but mostly they keep to their realms of tidelands and sea bottoms.
When I wrote for The Scientist , I covered the debuts of several genome sequences – fruit fly, rat, pufferfish, and the plague bacterium, to name a few.
What do you believe about the effects of exercise and depression – and why do you believe it? Are you personally unenthusiastic about exercising, or are you closer to religious fervor about it?These are critical questions...
This is a story about how a small island in the tropical pacific was proposed as a dumpsite for trash from the 2011 Japan tsunami. The story of Pagan Island involves the chemistry of Greece’s Pantheon, Jack Abramoff, sweatshops, and a bat so big it’s called a flying fox...
Scientists are aloof and socially inept. That seems to be part of the message of the video that won the Flame Challenge, a science communication contest run by the Center for Communicating Science...
As scientists who have researched the health effects of bisphenol A (BPA) for over a decade, we are concerned that a recent Food and Drug Administration decision raises questions about the agency’s ability to protect the health of Americans...
#StorySaturday is a Guest Blog weekend experiment in which we invite people to write about science in a different, unusual format – fiction, science fiction, lablit, personal story, fable, fairy tale, poetry, or comic strip...
Congressman Robert Walker represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican from 1977 to 1997. He’s has taken an interest in helping scientists understand Congress, and he invited me to his marble office building on K Street in Washington DC to interview him...
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