Science
Brain alcohol
How does the brain compensate for excess alcohol? Dartmouth researchers are learning more about the effects of alcohol on the brain.
Laser trapping of erbium
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have used lasers to cool and trap erbium atoms.
Genetics Today
Genetics began by being ignored. Now it has the opposite problem. Mendel was dismissed because his work seemed unimportant, but today genes are everywhere and the public is fascinated by their promises and disturbed by their threats.
Consciousness
Consciousness is widely viewed as the last frontier of science. Modern science may have split the atom and solved the mystery of life, but it has yet to explain the source of conscious feelings.
Nanotechnology
Manufactured products are made from atoms. The properties of those products depend on how those atoms are arranged. If we rearrange the atoms in coal we can make diamond...
Key Concepts for the 21st Century
'Key Concepts for the 21st Century', brings together a selection of leading Scientific concepts concerning the formation of the universe. With summaries about the theories of Newton's Mechanics, Quantum, The Big Bang, Black Holes, Relativity, Singularities and more!
NASA sails to the stars
NASA is setting sail for the stars - literally. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., is developing space sails technology to power a mission beyond our solar system.
SETI@home
Are we alone in the Universe? One only has to look at the plethora of popular Science fiction TV shows and films to see that we are fascinated by the idea of intelligent life "out there".
The Theory of Natural Selection
Darwin expressed this famous theory about all organisms throughout all time, commenting "by which all living and extinct beings are united by complex, radiating and circuitous lines of affinities into one grand system".
