SODOM & GOMORRAH: China's human-operated Shenshou-9 spacecraft has successfully docked with the country's space lab today. Millions of people in China watched the craft blast off into orbit on Saturday with the Chinese character “fu”, a symbol for good luck and fortune, displayed prominently outside the cockpit. Other powers in the world have been cutting back their space … [Read more...]

SODOM & GOMORRAH: The World Health Organization (WHO) warns of a new strain of drug resistant gonorrhea that's quickly spreading across the globe. Governments and doctors are advised to help people make sure their partners aren't dealing from the bottom of the deck. WHO reports that drug-resistant strains of the sexually transmitted disease are appearing in Australia, … [Read more...]

SODOM & GOMORRAH: Our culture's lack of moral grounding has many consequences. One is how we treat uncertainty in criminal law, which has led to a blind obedience to the power of the confession and forensic science. DNA and fingerprint evidence are largely considered solid evidence in most modern courts of law. The presence of one or both is usually enough to secure a … [Read more...]

SODOM & GOMORRAH: By freezing atoms to close to absolute zero, researchers at IBM have been able to get individual atoms to store data.   For decades, magentic media has been king. By skrinking feature size, data storage professionals have been able to improve speed and storage. However you can only make your magentic atom clusters so small; it becomes very difficult … [Read more...]

SODOM & GOMORRAH: The American Association for the Advancement of Science met this year to investigate some issues before the scientific community.  One such issue that was raised was alchemy, a long debunked and dead branch of science that most people associate with quackery and magic tricks. Dr. Lawrence Principe of Johns Hopkins University, however, is attempting to … [Read more...]