Topic: H.G. Wells

The Woman in Black: movie review (+trailer)

'The Woman in Black' star Daniel Radcliffe gives a convincing performance, but the storyline of the film becomes less clear as the movie progresses.

Ethical frontiers of humanizing animals in the lab

Mice with human-language DNA? Goats with human-like organs? They already exist. A British report raises anew the dilemma of creating animals with human characteristics for the sake of medical science.

Nuclear radiation in pop culture: more giant lizards than real science

Anxiety over nuclear radiation isn't new, and purveyors of pop culture have profited handsomely. But even with more serious films on the subject, the public is still largely ignorant of the science.

Steampunk: The new Goth

The retrofuturistic trend draws on a Jules Verne-like view of the world and Victorian-era technology.

'Splice' - a new thriller about impossible genetic hybrids

Human/animal hybrids are merely the stuff of horror fiction and Internet hoaxes.

Private equity, leveraged buyout practitioners re-emerge

Portland promotes urban cycling, but costs will be high

The eco-conscious city plans to build more than 680 miles of new bikeways in the coming two decades at a cost of $613 million.

Google logo celebrates Halloween 2009 with trick or treat doodle

The Google logo has changed to recognize Halloween 2009. Trick or Treat!

Google's fade-in homepage confuses

Google homepage tweaks have become common, but the latest has some folks scratching their heads.

To defend against Iran missiles, US and Israel conduct joint exercises

Amid high international tensions over Iran's nuclear program, the US and Israel are engaged in three weeks of virtual wargames aboard the USS Higgins, a missile-defense warship.

Beyond Ares 1-X: The problem with long-term space missions

Films that presaged the wall's fall

On the 20th anniversary, film festival honors Eastern bloc movies made in the decade before the Berlin Wall's demise.

HG Wells: The UFO Google logo mystery is solved

Google's HG Wells doodles and the return of Web serendipity

Crop circles, Google Earth, and the logo mystery

A telltale Poe-pourri

It’s the bicentennial of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, creator of the detective yarn. Where better than the city of idiosyncrasy – Baltimore – to celebrate?

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