Did Population Density Trigger Exponential Growth of the Human Brain? (A Galaxy Classic)
For the past 2 million years, the size of the human brain has tripled, growing much faster than other mammals. Examining the reasons...
Image of the Day: The Unbearable Beauty of a Spiral Rose Nebula
Earlier this year, the Wide Field Imager (WFI) , a 67-million pixel digital camera at the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile  recorded a number of fields in the...
The Daily Flash -Eco, Space, Tech (1/5)
7 Ways Amazon Could Make the Next Kindle Awesome Now the iPad cat is out of the bag, and it looks like a serious threat to Kindle’s hardware...
Is Aging a Disease That can be Cured?
“It’s a repair and maintenance approach to extending the functional life span of a human body. It’s just like maintaining the...
Will Orbiting Space Colonies Trump Planets? (A Galaxy Classic)
Expanding into space has been a dream of scifi since before the genre had a name.  Adventure, overcrowding, the chance of tall blue-skinned women – the...

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