April 2007


Text reveals more ancient secrets
Experts find a 13th Century prayer book has yielded yet another key ancient text buried in its parchment.

Canada sets reduced climate goal
Canada’s new climate strategy sets emissions targets, but acknowledges it will not meet its Kyoto Protocol commitment.

Against Technology: From the Luddites to Neo-Luddism

Hawking takes zero-gravity flight
The British physicist Stephen Hawking has completed a zero-gravity flight in a specially modified plane.

Papyrus
Scraps of writings from a garbage dump in ancient Egypt reveal what life was like 2,000 years ago.
NOVA

News: Picture If You Will an Oceanic ‘Twilight Zone’ of Microscopic Creatures Hindering Carbon Sequestration

David Biello

Earth Feature | Yellowstone: Monitoring the Fire Below
Three of the most catastrophic volcanic eruptions in geologic history occurred at a place now visited by over three million people a year.

How’s the Universe Today?
Meteorite hunter Rob Matson invites Neil deGrasse Tyson to the Mojave Desert.
NOVA scienceNOW

In Focus: Slide Show: Hundreds of Troubled Species Await Official Protection
Making the endangered species list isn’t easy when the queue is 280 species long view the slide show
Coco Ballantyne

Reviews: The Interplay of Art and Science
In two new books, University of Oxford art historian Martin Kemp explores, often brilliantly, the interplay of art and science
Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles

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