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Science News
April 28, 2001 |
TimeLine: April 25, 1931 Fungus beautifies self with fur-trimmed edge... Soybeans recommended as the ideal human food... Mysterious nucleus of atom yields secrets to bombardment...   |
Salon.com
April 25, 2001
Suzy Hansen |
The assault on the USS Liberty Experts respond to new evidence that the deadly 1967 attack on a U.S. spy ship by Israeli forces was deliberate... |
Science News
April 21, 2001 |
TimeLine: April 18, 1931 Stabilizer reduces rolling on roughest seas... Bureau of standards first in this country to liquefy helium... Discovery of two new essentials to life reported by chemists... |
Salon.com
April 17, 2001
Lucy Moss |
Inside the pleasure quarters The author of a new history of Japan's geisha talks about their secretive world, their art and patrons, and their ambiguous relationship to sex... |
CIO
April 15, 2001
Sara Shay |
Mercury Rising Quantifying natural phenomena was all the rage among early-17th-century scientists. As they grappled with measuring heat and cold, several came up with the thermoscope... |
Science News
April 14, 2001 |
TimeLine: April 11, 1931 The precious jewels in his head are twain... Invention makes electricity directly from sunlight... Synthetic lubricating oil made out of paraffin wax... |
Salon.com
April 12, 2001
Suzy Hansen |
The invention of peace A leading military scholar talks about what caused the world wars, why Kissinger was a true peacemaker and whether peace is incompatible with human nature... |
Science News
April 7, 2001 |
TimeLine: April 4, 1931 Paschal flowers bloom on prairies of the west... Test devised for measuring efficiency of the heart... Electrons and protons paired in atom nucleus... |
Science News
March 31, 2001 |
TimeLine: March 28, 1931 Prince lion-cub speaks a word for himself... Einstein finds past events not knowable with certainty... Physicists now sure vibrations occur in heart of atom... |
Salon.com
March 28, 2001
Gary Kamiya |
Violating the dead Two books tell the truth about the most horrific battle of our time -- and a movie desecrates it... |
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