Monthly Archives: November 2004

The Korean Times is reporting that a patient has regained the ability to walk after 19 years of paralysis following the injection of stem cells into the damaged portion of her spine. The apparent success was reported at a press … Continue reading →

Over the past couple years, scientists around the world have successfully integrated human cells into animals, resulting in pigs with human blood, mice with human neurons, and lambs with human livers. These chimera are the blending of cells from two … Continue reading →

The blue background is Saturn (made so by the scattering of blue sunlight), the tiny globe in the middle right is the moon Mimas, and the foreground tan streaks are Saturn’s rings. The rings are casting their shadows onto the … Continue reading →

In my latest “Future Wants” column, I anticipate the emergence of the Internet as the primary distribution network for all media, including music and movies. When is that going to happen and what are some of the details? Read on…

The moon next to Saturn’s F-ring in the previous image turned out to be Prometheus, one of the ring shepherd moons. The tiny body moves close enough to the ring at times to start dragging some of the ring material … Continue reading →

The pirates won. BitTorrent is a file distribution program used to share data files between computers. BitTorrent now makes up more than one third of all Internet bandwidth usage. This surprising find illustrates a major trend…everything, text, images, music, and … Continue reading →

Many of the images downloaded from Cassini are not processed right away. While the spacecraft was heading to and from Titan it snapped pictures of some of the objects in the Saturnian system. This image of the F-ring includes what … Continue reading →