Joe Conason / TruthdigDec 10, 2009
Evading the challenges of climate change -- and the human responsibility to save the planet -- is simple enough even for the laziest citizen.Evading the human responsibility to save the planet is simple enough even for the laziest citizen. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigOct 29, 2009
George W. Bush’s dream of Americans on Mars got a little bit closer to reality Wednesday as NASA successfully launched its prototype Ares I-X rocket. A version of the new rocket is planned to launch Orion, NASA's replacement craft for the aging space shuttle, as America’s preferred method of getting off-planet. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Ellen Goodman / TruthdigSep 24, 2009
It turns out watching TV while Twittering and surfing the Web may make one focus poorly, remember less and distract easily. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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T.L. Caswell / TruthdigAug 3, 2009
With biomass pioneers advancing their technology, the smelly stuff that you throw away today may be providing electricity for your home tomorrow.Almost like magic, biomass developers are tapping more and more kinds of waste to produce clean, renewable energy. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 27, 2009
Japanese railway employees use computerized "smile scanners" to be certain they're offering the best service to customers and greeting them with "natural smiles." Check out just how happy these people look. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Ellen Goodman / TruthdigOct 23, 2008
A cohort of entrepreneurs and scientists is the cutting edge of the Personal Genome Project. In an act of altruism and/or exhibitionism, the PGP-10 have put their medical records, traits and genetic codes on the Web where all the scientists, paparazzo and peeping Toms can see them. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Center for Arms Control and Non-ProliferationAug 1, 2008
Today's shocking revelation about the apparent suicide of an Army microbiologist, a lead suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks, has intensified the need for a thorough investigation into the only significant bioterrorism attack on U.S. soil, said Alan Pearson, director of the biological and chemical weapons control program at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 18, 2008
Despite its catastrophic outcome, the Manhattan Project can provide a useful model of how we might now mobilize science to address the major global dangers we now face -- but overcoming these threats will require innovative research and international cooperation among scientists focused on the common good. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Chris Hedges / TruthdigMay 12, 2008
The New Atheist writers from Richard Dawkins to E.O. Wilson to Sam Harris have become the high priests not of science but the cult of science. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
Ellen Goodman / TruthdigNov 29, 2007
Scientists may have found a way to grow stem cells without using embryos. The president's people are claiming this as a White House victory, causing a flood of gall on Pennsylvania Avenue. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Ellen Goodman / TruthdigJul 19, 2007
As old stereotypes about the differences between men and women continue to resurface in the form of the latest book releases (see: "Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps" or "Men Are Clams, Women are Crowbars"), scientific evidence continues to refute them. What does the evidence show? What any chatty man or any woman of few words can tell you: The sexes are not so extremely opposite as we're made to believe. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Ellen Goodman / TruthdigJun 14, 2007
With the stem cell debate, scientists once again have to negotiate the political gauntlet, where every breakthrough is met by an ill-informed stump speech. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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