Life This week 26 years ago Dinosaur destroyer About 65 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, a wayward Apollo-type asteroid ploughed into our planet and was responsible for wiping out the dinosaurs. This hypothesis is proposed by Luis W. Alvarez and colleagues from the University of California, Berkeley. Neutron activation analysis of the elements in a thin … News
Technology Publish on the web and be damned HOWARD HALLIS is a comic book artist who made a big mistake. He used his website to publish parodies of Chick Tracts – Christian comic books chronicling the adventures of mixed-up teenagers who are rescued from lives of sex, drugs and Dungeons and Dragons when they find Jesus. Hallis drew a "Cthulhu Chick Tract" in … Opinion
Life Mrs Carlill lays down the law On 14 January 1892, Queen Victoria's grandson Prince Albert Victor, second in line to the British throne, died from flu. He had succumbed to the third and most lethal wave of the Russian flu pandemic sweeping the world. The nation was shocked. The people mourned. Albert was relegated to a footnote in history. Three days … Features
Life The word: Spartina Spartina alterniflora (smooth cordgrass) is the Jekyll and Hyde of North American aquatic plants. On its native east coast, it is just another helpful plant. It prevents salt marshes from being eroded, snow geese love to nibble at its roots, crabs and fish feast on the detritus it produces, and in Virginia and several other … Regulars
Feedback Free energy from the quantum vacuum KNOWING how much Feedback appreciates pellucid examples of totally rational scientific exposition, Colin Osborne directs us to the website www.cheniere.org , where we can read in copious detail about Tom Bearden's Motionless Electromagnetic Generator. This wonderful device, a package 10 centimetres long that promises to deliver 2.5 kilowatts of … Regulars