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Reanimated Rodents and The Meaning of Life

One afternoon in the early 1950s, a young biochemist left his suburban lab bench at Britain’s Mill Hill National Inst...
Written by Matt Castle • 22 Jun 2007 • Read →
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Heavy Water and the Norwegians

On 19 November 1942, a pair of Royal Air Force Halifax bombers shouldered their way through thick winter clouds over...
Written by Alan Bellows • 19 Jun 2007 • Read →
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The Total Perspective Vortex

Most people think of the "mentally disordered" as a delusional lot, holding bizarre and irrational ideas about themse...
Written by Christopher S. Putnam • 14 Jun 2007 • Read →
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Beware the Dangers of Oxygen

There's a caustic substance common to our environment whose very presence turns iron into brittle rust, dramatically...
Written by Jason Bellows • 11 Jun 2007 • Read →
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Living in the Moment

"I don't remember things," Henry explained to the unfamiliar female interviewer. She seemed very curious about how h...
Written by Alan Bellows • 06 Jun 2007 • Read →
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Half Science and Hafnium Bombs

In the latter half of 1998, a small clutch of researchers and students at the University of Texas embarked upon a gro...
Written by Alan Bellows • 31 May 2007 • Read →
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A Walk in the Valley of the Uncanny

In June 2006 at the ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories in Keihanna, Japan, reporters and scienti...
Written by Marisa Brook • 24 May 2007 • Read →
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The Birth Control of Yesteryear

Approximately 2,600 years ago-- around 630 BCE-- the Greek island of Thera was plagued by drought and overpopulation....
Written by Alan Bellows • 21 May 2007 • Read →
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Terror on Wall Street

On 16 September 1920, throngs of brokers, clerks, and office workers poured from the buildings lining New York City's...
Written by Alan Bellows • 14 May 2007 • Read →
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Staying Abreast of Human Sexuality

There are 1.75 million animal species that have been noted and named by our scientific classification system. Of the...
Written by Jason Bellows • 10 May 2007 • Read →
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