Humble Mayor Suffers Heart Attack…
by Kathy Parks (Tribune) Members of the community are reaching out in a show of support for Humble Mayor Donnie McMannes, who suffered a heart attack on Wednesday, Nov. 4, while on the golf course. McMannes, in his early 70s, was taken to Memorial Hermann Northeast, in Humble, for surgery. He was given a stent and remained [...]

“Hold that door! Can you punch floor 23,115, please?”
‘Space elevator’ wins $900,000 NASA prize – space – 06 November 2009 – New Scientist. A laser-powered robotic climber has won $900,000 in a competition designed to spur technology for a future elevator to space.     Building a space elevator would require anchoring a cable on the ground near Earth’s equator and deploying the other end thousands of [...]

My Life Explained? No Reward for the ADHD!
ScienceDaily (Sep. 10, 2009) — A brain-imaging study conducted at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory provides the first definitive evidence that patients suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have lower-than-normal levels of certain proteins essential for experiencing reward and motivation. “These deficits in the brain’s reward system may help explain clinical [...]

Creating Quantum Creatures in the Lab? Flu Monster? – Physics – New Scientist
C ould we create quantum creatures in the lab? – physics-math – 15 September 2009 – New Scientist. Quantum weirdness could soon invade the living world, if a scheme to give a flu virus a strange double life comes off. In quantum theory, a single object can be doing two different things at once. This so-called “superposition” [...]

Multiplying Universes: How Many Is The Multiverse? – New Scientist
Multiplying universes: How many is the multiverse? – space – 28 October 2009 – New Scientist. HOW many universes are there? Cosmologists Andrei Linde and Vitaly Vanchurin at Stanford University in California calculate that the number dwarfs the 10500 universes postulated in string theory, and raise the provocative notion that the answer may depend on [...]