March 22, 2005
Is Nuclear Energy Coming Back?
Nuclear energy production may be on the verge of a long overdue comeback, thanks to a proven safety record and the...
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March 22, 2005
Nuclear energy production may be on the verge of a long overdue comeback, thanks to a proven safety record and the...
December 15, 2004
Questions of science rarely become major issues in presidential campaigns. But there it was: Senator Kerry stumped on...
June 22, 2004
At the heart of the major tobacco industry settlements in the late 1990s was the claim, put forward by lawyers...
March 22, 2004
If you want to enjoy sausage or respect the law,” Otto von Bismarck reputedly said, “you should never watch either...
January 1, 2004
Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God,” Thomas Jefferson wrote in his Notes on the State of...
September 22, 2003
Two inventive brothers began the age of flight — not the Wrights, but the Montgolfiers. As the world commemorates the...
June 21, 2003
The modern theory of the atom got its start in the summer of 1803 — exactly two centuries ago — when Englishman...
May 20, 2003
Five decades have passed since Watson and Crick discovered the shape of the DNA molecule. That discovery brought them...