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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 franchise to What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?, filmmakers often pit creative license against scientific authenticity. A cluster of recent TV shows, however--Fringe,..

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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...

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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, they may be all over your room. There will be no mouse. In fact, there will be little familiar about it at all: The user will stand in front a series of screens,..

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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...

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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...

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Fly Swatter

The scientific community reacts to Palin's knock on fruit fly research During her first address on Congressional policy in Pittsburgh last...

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Know Your Intelligence Agencies

Introducing ... the National Reconnaissance Office! The so-called U.S. Intelligence Community consists of 16 agencies--an alphabet soup that includes the FBI, DEA and CIA. That umbrella moniker is a brilliant piece of semantics: "intelligence" feels smart; "community," sounds, well, neighborly. The..

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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 witness to one of the most anti-science presidential administrations in United States history. There's been censorship of research, stacking of scientific advisory..

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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...

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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 of space travel-one with no launch pads or booster rockets. No risky ocean landings in charred, cramped Soyuz orbital modules; no money-sucking Space Shuttles...

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Spaceport America

Your options for commercial space travel (and the astronomical price tags) Arthur C. Clarke, who correctly predicted a great deal of things about science, including the invention of communications satellites, thought himself hopelessly optimistic when he imagined, in 1948, that men might visit the moon..

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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 rustproof metal flag directly beneath the North Pole. Although a massive accomplishment -- and one that would have been impossible without our friend global warming..

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The LHC's Secret Weapon

The Collider's Data Infrastructure Will Be the Real Breakthrough On Wednesday, scientists in Geneva shot a proton beam...

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