4 Everyday Items Einstein Helped Create

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4 Everyday Items Einstein Helped Create
4 Everyday Items Einstein Helped Create
In addition to his work on relativity, the physicist laid the scientific foundations for paper towels, lasers, and more common products.

Is the New $100 Million 'Starshot' for Real?

Is the New $100 Million 'Starshot' for Real?
Is the New $100 Million 'Starshot' for Real?
Backed by Stephen Hawking, the plan to laser-blast tiny spacecraft to Alpha Centauri still has a few kinks to work out.

I’ve Got Your Missing Links Right Here (20 June 2015)

I’ve Got Your Missing Links Right Here (20 June 2015)
I’ve Got Your Missing Links Right Here (20 June 2015)
Sign up for The Ed’s Up—a weekly newsletter of my writing plus some of the best stuff from around the Internet. Top picks Hazing Ravens With Lasers: A Humane Way to Save Baby Tortoises?” By Chris Clarke. The genome of Kennewick Man rekindles a legal feud—coverage from Carl Zimmer and Ewen Callaway. Watch out […]

More Stories! Laser Cowboys, Killer Flu, and the Bloody Fountain of Youth

More Stories! Laser Cowboys, Killer Flu, and the Bloody Fountain of Youth
More Stories! Laser Cowboys, Killer Flu, and the Bloody Fountain of Youth
Allow me to direct your attention to three stories of mine that have come out in the past few days: 1. In Popular Mechanics, I take a look at the convergence of the old and the new. Paleontologists are using the latest laser-scanning technology and 3D-printing devices to visualize and replicate fossils. When you are […]
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