Space & Physics
No One Can Explain Why Planes Stay in the Air
Do recent explanations solve the mysteries of aerodynamic lift?
Stories by Ed Regis
The Sciences
Interstellar Travel as Delusional Fantasy [Excerpt]
A popular critique of a voyage to the stars reveals the hazards of becoming hoodwinked by tragically misconstrued “pathological technologies” that promise us possibilities impossible to realize...
Technology
Computing in 2165
What today's prophets of technology say about the day after tomorrow
Space & Physics
The World's Smallest Radio
A single carbon nanotube can function as a radio that detects and plays songs
Technology
The Science of Spore
A computer game illustrates the difference between building your own simulated creature and real-life natural selection
Health
The Forgotten Code Cracker
In the 1960s Marshall W. Nirenberg deciphered the genetic code, the combination of the A, T, G and C nucleotides that specify amino acids. So why do people think that Francis Crick did it?...
The Sciences
Evaluating the Threat
Does Mass Biopanic Portend Mass Destruction?
