May 2006


Go-ahead for fusion reactor work
Seven international parties involved in an experimental nuclear fusion reactor project agree to allow work to start.

Stronger Hurricanes
Is global warming making hurricanes more intense?
NOVA scienceNOW

CLEO/QELS to Draw 6000
From terahertz technologies, laser processing, and optical instrumentation to nonlinear optics, nano-optics, and ultrafast dynamics, a broad range of topics will be covered at the 2006 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, slated for Sunday, 21 May through Friday, 26 May at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California.

Obituaries: David Tabor
Cambridge University physicist David Tabor died 25 November 2005.

Alarm at human bird flu cluster
The WHO says it is very worried about a cluster of recent human deaths from bird flu in Indonesia.

Blog: Dammed Impacts

David Biello

Skeptic: The Flipping Point
How one global-warming skeptic became a believer
Michael Shermer

In Focus: A New Robot Rolls, and a New Prize Is Set
The quest to build autonomous vehicles for the battlefield continues
W. Wayt Gibbs

Science Board Warns of Flobal SandT Competition as US K 12 Education Lags
China and other East Asian nations are “recasting the international SandT scene” through heavy investments in science, engineering, and mathematics.

Monkeys ’string words together’
The first evidence monkeys can string “words” together to communicate in a similar way to humans, has been found.

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