On June 21, the Sun reached its northernmost point in planet Earth’s sky, marking a season change and the first solstice of the year 2004. In celebration, consider this delightfully detailed, brightly colored image of the active Sun. From the EIT instrument onboard the space-based SOHO observatory, this picture is a false-color composite of three [...]

Forget Space Tourism, Go Underwater.

If you want to discover future travel trends, SPACE.com is the place to go. In “The Future of Travel: Aquatic to Cosmic Destinations,” you’ll see that space-based hotels, if technologically feasible, will probably not be affordable for a mass market. Other future concepts include helium-filled airship hotels, or Hydropolis, a $500-million [...]

Would You Like a Bouquet of Nanoflowers?

Today the Institute of Physics releases some of the most beautiful science images of the year so far, a collection of photomicrographs of tiny “flowers” and “trees” less than one thousandth the width of a human hair. The images are published in the Institute journal Nanotechnology.

These stunning [...]

Israel plays the Kurdish card and Americans are caught in the crossfire.
By Justin Raimondo

The victors in the Iraq war are now moving rapidly to consolidate their gains, and carry out the second phase of their operation. No, I don’t mean the June 30 American handover of pseudo-”sovereignty” to a puppet regime, but the ongoing invasion [...]

Japan Govt Panel OKs Some Human Embryo Cloning.

A Japanese government panel decided to permit human embryos to be cloned for research, a controversial process that has set off international debate, media reports said.

Supporters of medical cloning say so-called therapeutic cloning studies have huge potential for treating diseases and saving lives. But [...]

Irreversible Mental Damage
By URI AVNERY*

The Israeli national security assessor admits that the stress caused by his difficult job has inflicted on him irreversible mental damage.

The High Priest of the “We Have No Partner” creed is General (res.) Amos Gilad, who at the crucial time was chief of the research section (and as such [...]

A novel idea for piping in sunlight where dreary fluorescent bulbs have long dominated.

Imagine if dull fluorescent lights could pump sunshine into your office instead. As this technology featured in Discover Magazine reports, researchers are doing that with fiber optics, promising office workers increased well-being and improved productivity.

In 2001, an estimated 25 percent of [...]

High-tech will make vehicles safer, more powerful and lighter.

The Detroit News says that the adoption of nanotechnology by car manufacturers will produce safer, lighter and cheaper vehicles. While GM is already using nanocomposite materials for several vans, Ford is developing new nanoengineered catalysts to replace platinum. The newspaper gives other examples, such as auto-adaptive suspension [...]

Global Chaos, Just for Fun.

t was a sultry evening early last summer when 200 or so New Yorkers marched into Macy’s department store and loudly informed bewildered onlookers and one blas? sales clerk that they were looking for a “love rug” for their communal suburban house.

That was the start of the Mob Project. And [...]

The Day After Tomorrow: Don’t Go There.

By BRUCE ANDERSON

The movie “The Day After Tomorrow” is the single most moronic film I’ve seen since “Bill and Coo,” an epic I was dragged to as a child, circa 1950. Bill and Coo were talking parakeets, The Day After Tomorrow is talking cretins.

The subject is global [...]