Science
NASA Thinking of Pulling Asteroid into Moon's Orbit
Would cost $2.6 billion and take at least six years for a spacecraft to capture and deliver an asteroid
First Virgin Galactic Flight Expected This Year
Seats for the edge-of-space flight are going for over $200,000 each
Writing About Robots: Good and Bad
Automation is good, unless the thing you're automating shouldn't be done in the first place.
U.S. Military Should be Ready for "Mutant" Warfare, Say Researchers
Could cause headaches down the road
Half the Facts You Know Are Probably Wrong
Old truths decay and new ones are born at an astonishing rate.
Breakthrough in Work on What Makes People Gay
Research suggests trait comes from opposite-sex parents
The End of Physics?
Large Hadron Collider so far confirming the Standard Model exactly
Blue Science and Red Science
Examining the Democratic and Republican platforms on stem cells, space, and more
Fossils Found in Spain Linked to Panda
Remains are of the closest known relative of the panda so far, researchers say
Science Wins in California - Proposition 37 Fails
The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting this morning that Proposition 37 that - on specious "right-to-know" grounds - would have required labeling foods containing ingredients from biotech enhanced crops has failed.
Winners of Nobel Prize in Chemistry Announced
Two American scientists have won the prize for their work on proteins
Genetic Testing Answers Old Question: Who Do You Think You Are?
Reason Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey files his third and final dispatch from the Consumer Genetics Conference.
Winners of Nobel Prize in Physics Announced
Serge Haroche and David Wineland have been recognized for their work on the relationship between light and matter on the subatomic level
Who's Afraid of Your Genome?
Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey files his second dispatch from the Consumer Genetics Conference.
Scientists Turn Mice Skin Cells into Eggs
Another advance for fertility treatment
Half of the Facts You Know Are Probably Wrong
A review of The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date by Samuel Arbesman.
