MIT physicists create new form of matter
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- MIT scientists have brought a supercool end to a heated race among physicists: They have become the first to create a new type of matter, a gas of atoms that shows high-temperature...
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A Letter to the Kansas School Board
I am writing you with much concern after having read of your hearing to decide whether the alternative theory of Intelligent Design to be taught along with the theory of Evolution. I think we can all...
Whoa, Reproducing Robots
This is very interesting, and scary in a way as well. US researchers have devised a simple robot that can make copies of itself from spare parts. Writing in Nature, the robot's creators say their expe...
Really, What the Fuck is Wrong With America?
This really is sad. First science books having disclaimers, books about the Grand Canyon saying Noah's flood created it, now IMAX. This is really sad. IMAX theaters reject film over evolution CHARLEST...
Scientific American Gives Up
I was browsing Slashdot for updates on the Wordpress/Google controversey. While there, I came letter from the editor of Scientific American in the current issue (April issue). It is quite humorous. Th...
String Theory Proof is Near
Finding the Ultimate Theory of Everything Could two lookalike galaxies, barely a whisker apart in the night sky, herald a revolution in our understanding of fundamental physics? Some physicists believ...
First Americans from Australia?
First Americans May Have Come From Australia The first time she saw it four years ago in a museum, Silvia Gonzalez knew there was something special about the skull found in Mexico City in 1959. Known...
Scientific Facts Lose to Religious Faith
Yet again I am stunned at the pure idiocy of some people in this country. Washington, DC ? The Bush Administration has decided that it will stand by its approval for a book claiming the Grand Canyon w...
Taking Another Step Back
Talks at the United Nations appear to have failed to avert a new U.N. confrontation over a U.S.-led drive to ban all cloning of human embryos including for stem cell research, diplomats said Thursday....
Could I Have Been Right All Those Years Ago?
I remember being young and being laughed at because I said dinosaurs evolved into birds (this was pre-Jurassic Park). Of couse as the years go by, more and more evidence comes out, including this: Anc...
Bush vs. Kerry: Science
Discover Magazine recently compared Bush and Kerry on their stances on various Science related policies. I found it to be very interesting. (the article is quite long, but divided into sections based...