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Budget Cuts Could Shut Down Mars Rover A 40 percent financial cut in MER program means one might stop doing science.

Arthur C. Clarke And His Legacy In Sri Lanka British visionary and science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke died on March 19, 2008 at the age of 90. Clarke, who has lived in Sri Lanka since 1956, was buried in his adopted country on March 22. His request not to have any sort of state funeral from either of his island nations sounded just like the man I've come to know through anecdotes told...

Cut Forces NASA to Park a Mars Rover I long for an Administration and Congress that lurrvs them some science

Candidate Insight is Revolutionary Handwriting Analysis Tool Written Inc. has developed a breakthrough technology which has led to the first significant improvement to the 150-year-old science of handwriting analysis. This week, the company released the latest version of their personality assessment tool, Candidate Insight(TM).

Myspace.com Blogs - Illegal Aliens is now available! - Scryb New and Improved! Illegal Aliens by Nick Pollotta and Phil Foglio is now available from Scrybe Press! This book rocks! A science fiction comedy full of thrilling combat, nuclear agents, planetary blockades, Omega Gas, the galactic police, Russian-doll-style Dyson spheres, bar fights, lost civilizations, group sex, and the U.N. Space Marines.

Transformational Healing, How does it work? Transformational Healing / Matrix Energetics, How does it work? To understand Matrix Energetics we need to have a basic understanding of the Science of Light and the Quantum World. Therefore let's start with photons. Photons? We are all made of photons. If you were to take an electron microscope and go very deep into the cells and molecules o

The Secret Origin of the Ray Gun in Science Fiction (+PICS) Laser pistols are as identifiable with science fiction as rocketships, aliens, and robots, even though the first laser wasn't invented until 1960. So what spurred science fiction writers to start arming their characters with atomic blasters and disintegrator rays?

Scientists design a novel enzyme In order to create artificial enzymes, a comprehensive understanding of the structure of natural enzymes, their mode of action, as well as advanced protein engineering techniques is needed. A team of scientists from the University of Washington, Seattle, and the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, made a crucial breakthrough toward this endeavor

Mutant Proteins Could Lead To New Treatment For HeartDisease ScienceDaily (Mar. 24, 2008) Heart damage due to blocked arteries remains the leading cause of disease and death in the Western world, but a Florida State University College of Medicine researcher is helping to open new pathways toward treating the problem.

Mars Rovers Face Budget Cut The Mars Rovers are facing a budget cut of $4 million which may cripple their ability to do science on Mars. Mars Odyssey is also being drastically cut, and will serve strictly as a communications relay. The cuts are intended to help defray the rising cost of the Mars Science Laboratory mission, which is scheduled for launch next year.

Young inventors working with Brand Killer Robots! Story about how young inventors and scientists are getting help from the management science blog "Brand Killer Robots".

Why do men ignore nagging wives? It's all science A psychologist has found the answer to the age old question many women have about their husbands: " Why does her husband often seemed to ignore her requests for help around the house?"

Turns Out, Miracles are REAL And they're brought to you from the men and women of science. Don't believe me? Check out these videos.

...And You Missed This Because??? #3 - Rocket Science A witty look at the indie film "Rocket Science" from the ongoing column "... And You Missed This Because". Did you miss it because it sucked harder than Lindsey Lohan on a Tuesday afternoon or because good films sometimes fall by the wayside.

Energy Enhancing Research blog Energy enhancing... Research studies are validating that doses of EPA and DHA from fish oil - taken at 3 grams per day greatly improves the condition of neck, low back, and nerve tissues. Side effects are often bothersome for individuals and the science is showing that great results can be achieved without putting yourself at risk.

The tightrope of debating antiscience "it’s the right of any scientist to talk about science. Telling some scientists to shut up and let someone else talk about the issues is ridiculous."

The Singularity and Self-Reconciliation Some brief thoughts on the future of our inner lives as science and technology continue to progress.

Umar Saif Earns the Mark Weiser Award for Best Paper! The Associate Professor at the Lahore University of Management Sciences has won the Mark Weiser Award for a paper he co-authored with students and colleagues at MIT awarded the Mark Weiser at the IEEE Percom08!

Top Ten Sci-Fi Movies Of All Time Hollywood produces alot of movies every year but most of them can't come close to the classics made almost 30 years ago. Here is a list of top ten science fiction movies that no sci-fi fan should miss.

Peak oil science curriculum,The Science of Oil and Peak Oil In this article, Gail E. Tverberg provides a peak oil science curriculum suitable for introductory college science classes,advanced high school classes, and adult seminars.The material requires a little background in high school chemistry, but otherwise does not have any pre-requisites. There is sufficient material for a two to four session unit.

Don't you think it's time for science to develop real life Don't you think it's time for science to develop real life Pikachus?

Why Modern Physics May Be Completely Wrong Asking why the Universe is so mathematical might be just like asking why - when one only has a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Most people base science on a fundamental assumption; this assumption is so common we never question it and yet it is unsupportable; we have to take it on faith.

Pentagon Pimps Soldiers Eyes - 'Videogame' Style Contacts Today's technology allows soldiers with advanced gear to see digital maps through helmet-mounted monocles and pilots to get information on heads-up displays. But the latest project from DARPA, the Pentagon's blue sky science and technology division, will enable troops to see an info-"augmented" real…

IAYC - International Astronomical Youth Camps Lots of fun while doing science research project. International action with lots of parties and serious work. Stargazing, theory whatever you want. :)

New Hellboy Screenshots Released 14 new screenshots for the upcoming Hellboy:Science of Evil

15 Great Movies You Didn't Know Were Science Fiction The greatest science fiction movies sometimes aren't labeled as science fiction at all. Call them slipstream, or "stealth science fiction." Here's our list of 15 great movies you may be familiar with, but didn't know were science fiction.

Turns out money can buy happiness A study published in the current edition of Science shows that money can indeed buy happiness, but only when it is spent on others.

Zero Day Exploit Hits Standford University A zero-day exploit for Wordpress hits Stanford University's Materials Research Science & Engineering Centers website, making it host poker spam. No fix yet.

JunkScience.com -- Kyoto Count Up! The seemingly interminable Kyoto countdown is over - now we begin to count UP (the cost).

Pro-Life Doctor Works Hard to Combat Abortion, Help Women As an OB/GYN, Dr. William Lile will take part in the miracle of birth more times than many of us will ever get to witness it. Medical practitioners in Dr. Lile's specialty have been immensely important to the pro-life cause for providing insight and information into the science and awe-inspiring wonders of pregnancy and birth.

Deadly Medicine and the changing image of science The Science Museum of Minnesota is on the front end of a broader trend to better engage people in scientific knowledge through exciting, engaging, and provocative exhibits.

Google Learning Center Google has recently launched the Google Learning portal. Google’s new learning portal provides tutorials and course for the computer science students and for developers. These learning tutorials and

Ancient Asteroids Detected The journal Science is slated to report in its online edition that scientists have discovered the oldest asteroids ever detected in our solar system. Three rocks in particular were observed by Hawaii's Mauna Kea telescope using infrared and visible light, offering up results that showed huge amounts of calcium and aluminum.

Bringing Semantic Solutions to Customers Metatomix, Inc., a leading provider of semantic solutions to financial services, justice, manufacturing and life sciences organizations, today announced that the company will expand its efforts with IBM to help organizations better leverage their data to make faster, more informed decisions.

Contagious Laughter: The Science and History Laughter is that involuntary response humans of all cultures share, and while we may think of it as a reaction to humor (the funnier we find something, the more we laugh at it, goes the common wisdom), devoid of any other qualification it is a complex (and virulently contagious) social phenomenon.

Arthur C. Clarke Vs. Grim Future Isaac Asimov, Arthur Clarke and, to a certain extent, Robert Heinlein, wrote about possible futures that had a single common element: optimism. This was quite common in the golden age of science-fiction and has seen a steady decline every decade since. Pick up a typical science-fiction book today and the common prediction is a future loaded with

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Moral maze where science and faith collide -Times Online The new Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill is essential if Britain is to maintain its responsible leadership in stem-cell research, which offers the possibility of revolutionary treatments for devastating diseases such as Parkinson's, diabetes and cancer. The Bill is not about creating monsters or mocking the sanctity of human life.

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