November 2009

“Everything about it would be bad,” says Mark Hammergren, an astronomer at Adler Planetarium in Chicago, beginning with your attempt...

Plus: four more green windows and doors for retrofitting your own home

The Chalk River nuclear reactor in Ontario doesn’t sell a watt of electricity. Never has. But when it sprang a...

Tiny surface electrodes could help paralyzed people move

Every day we're exposed to thousands of man-made chemicals, some of which seep into our bodies and remain there for decades. What that means for our health, we don't fully understand--but I subjected myself to a battery of new tests in search of answers

Earthly organisms undergo tests in Mars-like conditions

The classic 1979 Atari videogame is transformed into three dimensions

A whale’s skin is easily glommed up with barnacles, algae, bacteria and other sea creatures, but sharks stay squeaky-clean. Although...

Yamaha's air-shock snowmobile lets adventurers explore more territory

Before scientists can put the Large Hadron Collider back to work this month solving the mysteries of particle physics, the...