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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A bizarre scenario takes theories of modern cosmology to the limit.
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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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New methods to reprogram adult cells could create novel models of disease.
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Researchers say the film shows quantum mysteries selectively to shore up metaphysical points.
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The claim has the ring of a myth. But environmental scientists say it is real.
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After decades of dives, a scientist offers a theory to explain the spectacular deceptions of cephalopods.
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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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LOS ANGELES -- Just a few years ago, the idea of bankrolling starry-eyed ventures to fly ordinary people into space was laughed off as science fiction.
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Description: Two scientists pose a new evolutionary idea: We run, therefore we are. They contend that humans developed the way they did in order to run long distances.
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UK and Swiss scientists find a way to trigger an out-of-body experience in healthy volunteers.
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Fools can draw too many conclusions from too little data.
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Fools share their thoughts on ethanol and energy.
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A new brain imaging study shows that when people tell the truth and lie, they use different parts of their brains. Scientists are exploiting these brain changes to develop an imaging technique
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Parents are encouraged to challenge their children's science teachers over the origins of life.
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The world of science has been busy all through 2004. The probing eye looked in all directions. It looked at the skies, at the ground beneath our feet, at the wings of a butterfly and at the molecules of water.
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The biopic shows admirably how liberating, and threatening, the work of some scientists can be. It's a timely film, a reminder that scientists sometimes suffer in their efforts to reveal truths others would prefer remain hidden. Jason Silverman reviews Kinsey.