The experimental Humvee drove to the so-called "Mars on Earth" base at Devon Island in Canada's Arctic. Read the full story.

A group of researchers think that SARS came from the stars, invading Earth as part of a daily shower of bacterial debris falling to Earth. Their fellows are highly skeptical. Read the full story.

It's funny how aspects of your past can come streaking through your present, unannounced and unbidden, but appreciated all the same.

I subscribe to a newsletter called WebWord, which deals with Web site usability issues. The most recent edition included a link to a copy of Infocom's classic Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text-based RPG, which the good folks at DouglasAdams.com have posted on their Web site. It's almost identical to the game I used to play on my old Commodore 64, with the sole exception being that you can?t save your progress.

Scaled Composites moved one step closer to launching the first private manned-spacecraft with a test of its SpaceShipOne vessel. The resusable plan was carried aloft by its "White Knight" transport. Read the full story.

At first NASA said it was impossible, but if they'd known how damaged Columbia had been, they'd tried just about anything to save her and her crew. Read the full story.

"Liberal" wasn't always a dirty word ... at the dawn of America, the Founders were proud to call themselves liberals. Of course, back then, liberalism actually had something to do with liberty. Read the full story.

DARPA tries to erect a "Somebody Else's Problem" field around its maligned, privacy-defeating, Big Brother-worshiping Total Information Awareness program Read the full story.

And you thought it was bad when TiVo though you were gay... Read the full story.

A super-lightweight plane is being designed for flight on Mars. Its one of four projects competing for NASA's Mars Scout program Read the full story.

Many of the special effects in The Two Towers were created using Shake, Apple's compositing and effects software. Read the full story.