Science
Flyin’ Purple… Planets?
Forget the “green hills of Earth.” Once upon a very long time ago, the hills on our planet– and many others– may have been purple. Or, more precisely, violet. It has to do with the […]
Year: 2017
Technology
How to Brick a Planet
We rely more and more on electronic devices to manage our daily lives, everything from refrigerators to cell phones, automobiles to sewage plants. What if all those devices stopped working… simultaneously? Couldn’t happen, you say? […]
Wonder
Dark Matter and the Insignificance of Things
How many times have you heard, “The best things in life aren’t things”? What if I told you that things aren’t even things at all? According to NASA, “things” as we know them constitute only […]
Technology
Driverless Cars and the Return to Yesteryear
With the invention of the automobile the travelling public lost a valuable safety feature– the common sense of the horse pulling the carriage. If the driver fell asleep or tried to drive off the road, […]
Science
The magic of “stem” cells
People, animals, plants– all begin with a single fertilized cell that divides, and divides, and divides again. These undifferentiated “stem” cells are identical to each other, and in human beings each cell possesses the capability […]
Wonder
Bubbles in the universe?
Real estate bubbles. Dot-com bubbles. And now— bubbles in the universe? Well, yes. In the Milky Way, anyway. It appears that a few million years ago—the mere blink of an eye in celestial time—our little […]