September 10,
2002 -
Moon opens for business
- By Dr David Whitehouse, BBC
News Online science editor,
The first private Moon landing
has finally been given the green
light by the US Government.
TransOrbital of California has
become the first private company
in the history of spaceflight to
gain approval from the US
authorities to explore,
photograph and land on the
Moon...
September 02,
2002 -
Genetic modification alters hair
color -
NewScientist.com news service,
Shuttling genes into hair
follicles can alter hair colour,
scientists have shown for the
first time. The experiments on
mice also suggest genetic
modification treatments for hair
loss will be possible in
future...
September 09,
2002 -
Destination: Mars, The
Earthlings Have Landed -
Wired Magazine, Where
would you stake your claim on
the great desert planet? Oliver
Morton, author of the new book
Mapping Mars, asks the experts.
Choosing a place to land on Mars
should be easy. The planet's
surface area is as great as that
of all Earth's continents
combined, and thanks to 30 years
of space missions, it has been
mapped in bewitching detail.
Unfortunately, spacecraft are
delicate constructions, and
finding a safe spot to land them
on rocky ground is a colossal
headache. NASA researchers have
been nursing that headache for
years as they analyze hundreds
of sites, trying to decide where
a pair of rovers should arrive
for a Mars mission in early
2004. Just as they were to make
their final choices this spring,
new wind modeling data sent the
scientists back to their
databases...
September,
2002 -
Take These Genes and Call Me in the Morning
- By Amanda Griscom, Wired
Magazine, September 2002, In
a concrete bunker at Fort
Detrick Army Base in Frederick,
Maryland, Jenny Riemenschneider
is standing over 10 rabbits
splayed out on stainless steel
operating tables. Dressed in a
white Tyvek jumpsuit, a surgical
mask, a shower cap, and plastic
booties, she calmly loads 12
gold bullets into a revolver.
Each rabbit lies motionless,
tranquilized, paws spread-eagle
with an exposed patch of shaved
skin on its lower abdomen.
Riemenschneider grips the pistol
with both hands and presses its
8-inch barrel into a pink belly.
Boof! Boof! Boof! Boof! Boof!
Boof! Boof! Boof! She fires
eight shots into the first
rabbit, flinching slightly as
the blasts echo through the
room...
