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Category Archives: boston globe
teleportation passes another milestone
It’s not “Beam me up, Scotty,” just yet, but teleportation has taken another step forward. Scientists from the University of Geneva in Switzerland and the University of Aarhus in Denmark have taken particles of light, destroyed them, and reconstituted them … Continue reading
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new on television: crikey! another coldblooded reptile show
Do you like seeing a crocodile chomp down on a struggling, mewling gazelle? How about on a struggling, bleating wildebeest? Or perhaps you want to see the softer side of these ferocious predators, with mother crocs carefully ferrying babies in … Continue reading
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duck, duck, quail?
In what would at first glance appear to be a completely useless experiment, researchers have created a duck-billed quail and a quail-billed duck. Jill Helms and Richard Schneider of the University of California at San Francisco successfully transplanted neural crest … Continue reading
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hamburger from space
When was the last time a Hubble Space Telescope image made you hungry? Located some 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius, the celestial object called Gomez’s Hamburger (in honor of its discoverer, Arturo Gomez) is a sunlike star nearing … Continue reading
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walking stick, flying stick
Stick insects, famed for their extraordinary ability to look just like, well, sticks, are now famous for something altogether different. They are the first creatures known to have re-evolved the ability to fly. Michael Whiting and his colleagues at Brigham … Continue reading
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trust me, it’s polish
After a year in Boston, I still miss the Polish food of Chicago: the $5.95 all-you-can-eat buffets, the ubiquitous delis with strands of garlic-rich sausages in the windows. Tiring of pho, chicken tikka masala, and panang curry, I longed for … Continue reading
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