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The 250 Miles Up Club
One great thing about getting to meet the crew of the space shuttle Endeavour is that for the first time in my life I used the phrase “Commander, can I get your autograph?” while not wearing a Star...
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Particle Smashing
I think we can all say it’s a good thing that CERN hasn’t blown up the planet yet. I realize that anyone who knows anything about quantum mechanics will roll their eyes and say that I’m a moron, but...
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Seven BILLION? I’m Not Worried.
Last week Earth reached seven billion occupants, its highest total yet. I recall in middle school being told this forecast in an ominous tone which very much communicated “you are doomed.” How could...
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St. Darwin Day
Today is Charles Darwin’s 203rd birthday, so I wish to extend holiday greetings to any devout atheists or agnostics planning to attend services. There are services, incidentally. They’re called...
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We’re Not Entirely Human
Scientists have now confirmed that all non-African humans are part Neanderthal. (And some Pacific Islanders have a third species lingering around their genome called Denisovans.) Africans are 100% homo...
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NASA Invests in Cryogenic Sleep Chamber
NASA has greenlighted several super futuristic research and development proposals in hopes of aiding our eventual trip to Mars. This includes among other things cryogenic chambers—like in...
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Controversial Study Aims to “Reanimate” the Brain Dead
We’re a long way from bringing dead people back to life, although the science of brain death is fascinating. A hundred years ago if your heart stopped, you were dead. Period. Then we realized we could...
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Researchers Name New Parasite after Barrack Obama
I assume you, like me, regularly peruse the Journal of Parisitology (for the centerfolds). If you missed the latest issue, a researcher named Thomas R. Platt has named a new parasite Baracktrema...
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Scientists Teleport a Photon Six Kilometers
We now must ask ourselves: if scientists can teleport stuff in kilometers, could they someday teleport stuff in miles? There’s no way of knowing, but my gut tells me: yes. Also apparently in physics...
View ArticleBomb-Sniffing Plants
Botanists have figured out how to design plants sensitive to bomb materials. Once these plants pick up on the offending chemicals, their leaves change the type of radiation they emit under infrared...
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