The Complete Book of Robots
A comprehensive new robotics handbook raises the question: Will we take these machines into our everyday lives? A Miller-McCune interview of the University of Naples' Bruno Siciliano.
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Slow: Whale Xing
Biologist Christopher Clark builds sonic buoys that help ships avoid running down the last of the right whales.
Solar Power: The Next Generation
Offline Diary: An old way of turning sunlight into electricity reinvents itself in California.
The Search for Intelligent Light
Planet hunter Geoff Marcy scans the skies for answers to the universal question of other life.
Hope for a New Anti-Cancer Vaccine
After researchers vaccinated mice with a protein, the mice developed 90 percent fewer metastases in the liver and 75 percent fewer in the lung, compared with control animals.
Caffeine Adds Life (to Yeast)
Scientists are getting a better idea of how coffee might extend human life spans. Hint: It might follow the same path to immortality as eating less.
Britain’s UFOs (Uncovered Factual Objects) Sighted
The U.K.'s Freedom of Information Act used to pry the lid off a festering document horde from Britain's own version of Project Blue Book.
The Doubt Makers
By funding its own research, industry has raised unwarranted doubts about a range of scientific issues — from the risks of tobacco to the reality of climate change — delaying response to public dangers for decades. Can scientists and journalists learn to beat the doubt industry before our most serious problems beat us all?
Total Recall … Or At Least the Gist
Two Cornell psychologists found we have two separate systems for memories, which helps explain how we can "remember" things that never happened.
Stem Cells Located in Pituitary Gland
For the first time, scientists have found stem cells in the pituitary glands of mice that allow the organs to grow after birth.