12/16/2008: Fusion we can believe in?
Working on a shoestring budget, researchers have found no reason why a low-cost approach to nuclear fusion won't work. President-elect Barack Obama's pick for energy secretary has said he's aware of...
View Article12/17/2008: Genome prices slashed
How much does it cost to decode your genome? Last year, the going rate was $1 million. Now prices are plunging - and as a result, the prospects for personalized medicine and other genetic innovations...
View Article12/18/2008: The year in science
Why would anyone want to create diseased cells in the lab? Because that's the best way to learn how to cure those diseases. The ability to transform a patient's ordinary skin cells into virtually any...
View Article12/19/2008: Hope on a pale blue dot
Are you celebrating Christmas? Observing Hanukkah? Marking Sunday's winter solstice? Commemorating Carl Sagan's legacy? Across the spiritual spectrum, this is the season of hope on our pale blue dot -...
View Article12/22/2008: The year in space
What is to be done about the space shuttle fleet and the shuttle’s troubled successor? Who will the next NASA administrator be? Will a new generation of spaceships actually take flight in 2009? Will...
View Article12/23/2008: Vote for the weirdest science
How do you follow an act like glow-in-the-dark kitties? The competition for our second annual Weird Science Awards includes an ample helping of animal weirdness, ranging from see-through fish to a...
View Article12/4/2008: Snow globes full of stars
Astronomers are offering a double dose of cosmic ornaments for the holidays, in the form of stunning images of globular clusters. http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/12/04/1698557.aspx
View ArticleDecember 2008: "Planetology" and "Hubble: Imaging Space and Time"
If you have a space fan on your shopping list, these two books could make for great coffee-table giving: "Planetology," by veteran astronaut Tom Jones and planetary geologist Ellen Stofan, looks at the...
View ArticleFebruary 2009: "Radical Evolution"
"Radical Evolution" by Joel Garreau is one of the books that inspired our own special report on "Fast Forward: The Future of Evolution."
View ArticleApril 2009: "The Elegant Universe" and "Cosmic Jackpot"
To go along with my reports about the Origins Symposium at Arizona State University, you can check out these referenced books, which I've written about previously: "The Elegant Universe" is Columbia...
View ArticleMay 2009: "Touch the Invisible Sky"
The Hubble Space Telescope's vision isn't just for those with sight: A book published last year, "Touch the Invisible Sky," presents the story of Hubble and NASA's other Great Observatories in Braille,...
View ArticleJune 2009: Moonshot reading list
I rounded up many of the books being published to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing here: http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/06/05/1955288.aspx So what about...
View ArticleSeptember 2009: "The Surrogates" and "The Cybergypsies"
It turns out that the Bruce Willis action movie titled "The Surrogates" was based on "The Surrogates," a graphic novel by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele that came out in 2005. And that work, in...
View ArticleJanuary 2010: "Creation" and more about Darwin
Have you seen the movie "Creation"? I discussed the somewhat controversial film in this Cosmic Log item and interviewed the author of the book on which the film was based, Randal Keynes, who is Charles...
View ArticleFebruary 2010: "In Search of Time"
I discussed Sean Carroll's book, "From Eternity to Here," in this Cosmic Log item ... but I also referred to "In Search of Time," Canadian science writer Dan Falk's survey of the various concepts of...
View ArticleJuly 2010: Summer science odysseys
Summer's the season for kicking back, taking time off and heading out on flights of fancy ... preferably with a good book (or e-reader) in your backpack. It's great if the book is associated with...
View ArticleDecember 2010: Season's readings in science
Looking for a science book to give? We have a whole bushel basket of recommendations, ranging from picture books for kids, to cosmic brain-teasers for grownups. This is the big season for books -- and...
View ArticleJune 2011: "Radio Free Albemuth" and other PDK goodness
The latest movie based on Philip K. Dick's offbeat science-fiction stories features one especially offbeat character ... named Philip K. Dick. "Radio Free Albemuth," an indie film that is getting a...
View ArticleAugust 2011: 10 books for a summer field trip
You don't have to turn your brain off for vacation: A summer break is the perfect time to open a book and let your imagination fly through exotic scientific realms. The best science books for summer...
View ArticleSeptember 2011: 12 science tales that take the prize
Are you looking for a million-dollar story? How about a dozen tales produced by folks who have been awarded more than a million dollars in the past week? Here's a roundup of award-winning tales with a...
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