
China's Great Leap Upward
By boosting astronauts into orbit, China hopes to become the newest superpower in space
By boosting astronauts into orbit, China hopes to become the newest superpower in space
Conventional wisdom says that globular star clusters are the stodgy old codgers of the universe, but it turns out that many of these clusters are young
Campaigns against child labor are most likely to succeed when they combine the long arm of the law with the invisible hand of the marketplace
Sea ice and glaciers are melting, permafrost is thawing, tundra is yielding to shrubs--and scientists are struggling to understand how these changes will affect not just the Arctic but the entire planet
Novel motion-producing devices--actuators, motors, generators--based on polymers that change shape when stimulated electrically are nearing commercialization
A new technique called virotherapy harnesses viruses, those banes of humankind, to stop another scourge--cancer