What was the most important science story of the century?
Articles with 1999
Do you see what I see?
“We have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him,” the Magi tell King Herod in Matthew’s gospel.
Trip to the genome zoo
Come with me to a zoo. Not your usual zoo of animals in cages and corrals. This zoo is displayed on a fold-out chart in the 1999 annual genome issue of the journal Science.
Intergalactic allusions to illusions
There is a week in late November when my walk across the meadows to work in the morning takes me directly into the rising sun. Ahead of me along the double track, as if in a gun sight, the sun lifts its fiery globe above the horizon.
The new holiday spirit: E‑commerce
“Folks, don’t get up from your chair. Don’t click that remote to change the channel. The next item we are offering on the Shop-Till-You-Drop Network will change your life.”
Stirring color images from black-and-white lunar landscape
Seldom has a scientific and technological story been turned into higher art than Michael Light’s Full Moon, a volume of photographs from the Apollo missions to the Moon.
Are we what we eat?
A shiver went up our spines when we read about the recent discoveries at Moula-Guercy cave in France. Archeologists found a treasure trove of 100,000-year-old bones of Neanderthals — our nearest cousins on the human family tree — along with the bones of deer and other animals.
There’s no dot com seen under the microscope
A small green leaf picked up on the college quad. It attracted attention by being small and green in a sea of autumnal colors. I was on my way to the Science Building, so I stepped into a biology lab and slipped the leaf onto the stage of a dissecting microscope.
A recently found 9,000-year-old flute still plays haunting melodies
My computer has just been playing a 9,000-year-old seven-holed flute, the oldest playable musical instrument ever discovered.
A real cool Jules Verne-like journey
It is a story right out of science fiction. Mysterious Island. Lost World. Journey to the Center of the Earth. Except in this case the story is true.