Science creates 'own mavericks'
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Britain's scientific community fuels controversies by shunning colleagues with rebel ideas, research suggests.
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According to New Scientist.com, Scientists at the University of West England have designed an autonomous robot which generates its own energy by eating flies.
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The work of Prof. Naomi Ehrich Leonard at Princeton University shatters barriers, interweaving control theory, fluid mechanics, robotics, and biology.
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Robert D. Wall is too careful a scientist to say he's on the verge of a sensational discovery.
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Scientists trying to create life are more like engineers than biologists. They want to make stuff rather than learn about life.
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Genetics pioneer Craig Venter has news from the frontiers of biology.
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Science & environment: Experts welcome drop in unfounded claims, but gaffes still cause concern
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Dr. Robert Lanza, famous for his stem-cell and cloning research, believes his ideas will lead to a unified theory of the universe. It's all in the biology. Wired News interview by Aaron Rowe.
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Liberal bias versus right-wing conspiracy is a wonderful distraction. There is evidence enough on both sides. How can opposite claims be true? Confront a physicist with evidence supporting contradictory hypotheses and she will go looking for a more basic cause. Let's try that.
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Science documentary or feature film? What's Swades, really?
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Scientists are puzzled, but the phenomenon seems to fit the latest global-warming models.
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Two Hungarians puzzled by how certain  creatures with shells, like turtles and beetles, are able to  self-right have developed a shape with one stable and one  unstable point of equilibrium to explain the phenomenon.
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Scientists working to build a life form from scratch have patented the method they plan to use.
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Remote-control sharks, pain guns, radioactive scorpion venom ... Bond-like technology is unnervingly real in some labs. By Greta Lorge from Wired magazine.
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Researchers find that humans produce their own morphine. If naysayers finally believe it, the discovery could boost pain and addiction research. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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Using virtual-reality goggles, a camera and a stick, scientists have induced out-of-body experiences in healthy people.
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First he reinvented the way we get e-mail. Now he's rounded up a bunch of radical thinkers to reinvent physics itself. By Duff McDonald from Wired magazine.