EngineeringFebruary 1, 2020
No One Can Explain Why Planes Stay in the Air
Do recent explanations solve the mysteries of aerodynamic lift?
Stories by Ed Regis
Ed Regis has written 10 science books, including Monsters: The Hindenburg Disaster and the Birth of Pathological Technology (Basic Books, 2015). He has also logged 1,000 hours flying time as a private pilot.
The SciencesOctober 3, 2015
Interstellar Travel as Delusional Fantasy [Excerpt]
A popular critique of a voyage to the stars reveals the hazards of becoming hoodwinked by tragically misconstrued “pathological technologies” that promise us possibilities impossible to realize
TechnologyJanuary 1, 2013
Computing in 2165
What today's prophets of technology say about the day after tomorrow
March 1, 2009
The World's Smallest Radio
A single carbon nanotube can function as a radio that detects and plays songs
TechnologyJanuary 1, 2009
The Science of Spore
A computer game illustrates the difference between building your own simulated creature and real-life natural selection
HealthNovember 1, 2007
The Forgotten Code Cracker
In the 1960s Marshall W. Nirenberg deciphered the genetic code, the combination of the A, T, G and C nucleotides that specify amino acids. So why do people think that Francis Crick did it?
The SciencesDecember 1, 2001
Evaluating the Threat
Does Mass Biopanic Portend Mass Destruction?